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15, June 2022
Prosecutor calls for suspended sentence for Blatter, Platini 0
The Swiss prosecutor’s office on Wednesday demanded an 18-month suspended jail sentence for Michel Platini and ex-president of FIFA Sepp Blatter, accusing them of fraud. Blatter and Platini are being tried over a two-million-Swiss-franc payment in 2011 to the former France captain, who by that time was in charge of European football’s governing body UEFA. […]
15, June 2022
UK forced to cancel deportation flight to Rwanda after European court ruling 0
A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government. The number of those due to be put on the flight had dwindled from an original 130 to seven on Tuesday and finally none thanks to […]
14, June 2022
Resurgence of cholera kills 150 people in Cameroon 0
More than 150 people have died during a resurgence of cholera in Cameroon over the last eight months, the United Nations said on Monday. “The health ministry registered 8,241 cases and 154 deaths,” to the end of May, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. Seven of the West African […]
14, June 2022
Visit Rwanda: UK to send first asylum seekers to Kigali 0
The British government was to send a first plane carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday despite last-gasp legal bids and protests against the controversial policy. A chartered plane was to leave one of London’s airports overnight and land in Kigali on Tuesday, campaigners said, after UK judges rejected an appeal against the deportations. Claimants […]
14, June 2022
Southern Cameroonian man shot dead, several others injured by Francophone troops 0
Cameroon government forces have shot and killed a young Southern Cameroonian man and injured several others in a raid in Bamenda the chief city in the North West region, as tensions have been running high in the entire Southern Cameroons in recent months. Our correspondent in Bamenda says the victim is yet to be identified […]
14, June 2022
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Yerima criticizes front line leaders for acting poorly vis-à-vis the struggle 0
The Vice President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government has criticized some front line Ambazonian figures for acting very poorly in defending the Ambazonian cause against French Cameroun military occupation. Dabney Yerima made the remarks in a meeting with a group of Southern Cameroonians in the Republic of South Africa recently that saw him addressed […]
14, June 2022
Mamfe hospital disaster triggers fear and inflation! 0
It never rains but it pours. This is an apt description of what is happening in Mamfe following the violent fire that consumed seven of the nine wards which made up the Mamfe General Hospital. While the population is still struggling to accept that the only hospital that they have in the Division has been […]
13, June 2022
French army quits Mali base ahead of total pullout 0
French troops were on Monday handing back a military base in northeastern Mali ahead of a final withdrawal from the Sahel nation, France’s army said, after nine years fighting a jihadist insurgency. And the UN’s emissary there warned that their withdrawal could leave Menaka, where they were based, vulnerable to a jihadist attack. The departure […]
13, June 2022
FIFA approve permanent use of five substitutes for top games 0
Football’s rules body on Monday said that five substitutes would be permanently introduced for all top games and that an automatic offside detector is closer to being introduced for this year’s World Cup. FIFA president Gianni Infantino said the substitute change, which was started after the coronavirus pandemic, followed “strong support from the entire football […]
15, June 2022
“I’ve been asked to denounce the Ambazonian struggle, slam Sisiku Ayuk Tabe’s actions” 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
In a rare disclosure, the Vice President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government says French Cameroun regime officials attempted to persuade him to denounce the Ambazonian struggle and also condemn President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe for declaring the independence of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. Speaking exclusively to Cameroon Concord News on Monday, Vice President Dabney […]