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15, April 2024
Southern Cameroons Crisis: 2 teachers abducted in the North West 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
Two teachers were kidnapped early Monday in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region of Northwest, according to local and security sources. Schools in Southern Cameroons resumed classes Monday for the last term of the academic year after a two-week holiday. The teachers were on their way to school when gunmen, identified by locals as separatist fighters, ambushed […]
15, April 2024
World Bank says despite high potential, 75 vulnerable economies face ‘Historic Reversal’ 0
by soter • Business, Headline News, World
Despite their high potential to advance global prosperity, one-half of the world’s 75 most vulnerable countries are facing a widening income gap with the wealthiest economies for the first time in this century, a new World Bank report has found. Taking full advantage of their younger populations, their rich natural resources, and their abundant solar-energy […]
15, April 2024
Cardinal Robert Sarah says Western prelates have lost their nerve 0
by soter • Headline News, Religion, World
An African cardinal widely seen as a conservative critic of Pope Francis, and styled by some as possible candidate for the papacy himself, has warned of what he described as a “practical atheism” taking hold within the Catholic Church. Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea also repeated his criticism of Fiducia Supplicans, the recent Vatican document […]
13, April 2024
Iran launches drones at Israel in retaliatory attack 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Iran has launched drones at Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said, appearing to mark a widely anticipated reprisal attack. The IDF said the wave could take hours to reach Israel, a distance of 1,100 miles (1,800km). It said Israeli forces were on high alert and “monitoring all targets”. Iran had vowed to retaliate after […]
13, April 2024
Thousands protest in Niger demanding immediate withdrawal of US troops 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, Politics
Thousands of people in Niger’s capital on Saturday protested for the immediate departure of US soldiers from the north, after the military junta in Niamey said it was withdrawing from a military agreement with Washington. Following a July coup, the West African country said in mid-March that the 2012 cooperation agreement had been “unilaterally imposed” […]
13, April 2024
President Biya’s health: doctors long implanted a pacemaker in his heart 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
The succession crisis at the heart of Cameroon is clearly deeper than that in the heart of the regime’s leader President Paul Biya. Cameroon Intelligence Report has been reliably informed that Swiss doctors implanted a pacemaker in the heart of president Biya during his last trip to Geneva. Our source added that the crisis at […]
13, April 2024
Cameroonian Catholic Priest Who Died in Rome Remembered for His “serenity in accepting the Lord’s will in suffering” 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Religion
Fr. René Gaston Ayihi Tsimi, a member of the Clergy of Cameroon’s Catholic Diocese of Obala, who died on Monday, April 8 in Rome after an illness, is being remembered for his “serenity in accepting” the will of God in his life amid suffering. He was aged 31. In a statement issued Friday, April 12, […]
12, April 2024
Nearly 100,000 people have fled Haitian capital since March due to gang violence 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Some 95,000 people have fled rampant gang violence in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince since early March, the United Nations said Friday. Insecurity is “pushing more and more people to leave the capital to find refuge in provinces, taking the risks of passing through gang-controlled routes,” according to the International Organization for Migration. Source: AFP
12, April 2024
Russian air defense system, trainers arrive in Niger 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, News
Russian military instructors have arrived in Niger with an air defence system and other equipment as part of the West African nation’s deepening security ties with Moscow, state television announced late on Thursday. Niger’s military government agreed in January to step up security cooperation with Russia, after expelling French forces that were helping fight jihadist […]
15, April 2024
Cameroonian beer and soft drinks exports soar by 73% and 46.6% in 2022 0
by soter • Africa, Business, Headline News
Cameroon’s brewing companies saw a significant boost in their beer exports in 2022. According to data from the National Statistics Agency (INS), exports surged by 73% over the period to 12,602 tons, bringing in a total of CFA5.7 billion. The previous year, beer exporters sold 7,285 tons of beer and collected CFA3 billion. Soft drink […]