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19, October 2022
Brazil challenger Lula says Neymar supports Bolsonaro over debt woes 0
Brazilian presidential candidate Lula da Silva criticised football star Neymar’s support of far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, accusing the player of being motivated by a debt “pardon”. Last month, Neymar endorsed hardline conservative Bolsonaro as he fights to win reelection in his October 30 runoff battle against leftist ex-leader Lula. “Neymar has the right to choose […]
19, October 2022
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Separatists agree to continue talking! 0
Separatist leaders flown into Canada from Nigeria to attend the Canada talks have agreed to continue talking with other faction leaders in order to give peace a chance. Some three fighters who obtained their visas from the Canadian embassy in Abuja said they had been mandated by the fighters on Ground Zero to represent them […]
18, October 2022
Fossil Fuel Extraction: Why Africa needs a transition to greener and cleaner energy sources 0
The world is littered with millions of oil and gas production facilities which include active wells and processing plants. More than 100 million people on the African continent live within half a mile of these sites and they are exposed to pollutants daily. What is more unfortunate is that when fossil fuels get burned by […]
18, October 2022
Pathways to Peace in Cameroon: Ten Critical Observations for the International Community 0
In October 2022, Cameroon marked a poignant anniversary: six years of an avoidable crisis that escalated to civil war, one which has killed thousands and displaced or severely impacted millions. I wrote an early overview of the crisis for CGAI in September 2018, at which point I had no idea the war would get worse […]
18, October 2022
Cameroon Concord News Chairman devastated following the death of his father-in-law 0
The Chairman and Editor-In-Chief of the Cameroon Concord News Group has announced the sad passing of his beloved father-in-law Chef Anang Zacharias in Wum, Menchum Division. The Right Honorable Soter Agbaw-Ebai described how he was his rock and his inspiration after he got married to Odette Anang. Agbaw-Ebai said that while he is completely heartbroken, […]
18, October 2022
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Wum Mayor’s home set ablaze 0
Ambazonia Restoration Forces have stormed the residence of the mayor of Wum and that of his dad and set both on fire, according to Cameroon Concord News sources in Menchum Division. Cameroon government soldiers reportedly fired on some of the Amba fighters at the residence in Naikom Overside before fleeing. The Francophone army soldiers loyal […]
17, October 2022
Benzema wins Ballon d’Or as Putellas retains women’s prize 0
Karim Benzema was rewarded for his remarkable success with Real Madrid by winning the Ballon d’Or at a star-studded ceremony in Paris on Monday, while Spain’s Alexia Putellas retained the women’s prize. Benzema, who is the first French winner of the most prestigious individual prize in football since Zinedine Zidane in 1998, scored 44 goals […]
17, October 2022
Can Renewable energy address Africa’s perennial energy crisis? 0
Africa is a continent rich in land, water, and energy resources, with a young and fast-growing population. Already the world’s youngest continent, it is expected to grow to nearly 2.5 billion people by 2050, 80% of them in Sub-Saharan Africa (UNPD, 2019). Levels of human and economic development differ widely across the continent, and […]
17, October 2022
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Talks in Canada end in key agreement 0
The talks on seeking possible solutions to the Southern Cameroons crisis which has resulted in the deaths of thousands of Cameroons have come to an end in Canada; a country which has been seeking to help find peaceful solutions to the fighting that has ruined the economies of Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions. The talks, which […]
19, October 2022
Football icon Shevchenko feels pain and pride in Ukraine’s resilience 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, Sports
Ukrainian football legend Andriy Shevchenko has admitted in an interview with AFP he cried when he “saw children running through a field strewn with missile craters” in Irpin, a commuter town outside Kyiv which was liberated from Russian control. The 2004 Ballon D’Or winner said he was overwhelmed by the youngsters’ determination to play football […]