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9, August 2021
Mali: Suspected jihadists kill scores of villagers 0
Suspected jihadists massacred more than 40 civilians in northern Mali and killed 12 troops in an ambush in neighbouring Burkina Faso, officials said Monday, highlighting the security crisis gripping the two fragile states. “Terrorists” on Sunday invaded the villages of Karou, Ouatagouna and Daoutegeft near Mali’s border with Niger, a military officer told AFP, using […]
9, August 2021
Catholic priest murdered in western France 0
A Rwandan national suspected of causing a major fire that ravaged the cathedral in the French city of Nantes last year murdered a Catholic priest in western France on Monday, the interior minister and a source close to the investigation said. “All my support for the Catholics of our country after the dramatic murder of […]
9, August 2021
Geneva: Biya is losing the battles! 0
The news from Geneva and Southern Cameroons is not good! The Cameroon Concord News Group’s correspondent in Geneva has succeeded to obtain pictures of the ailing Cameroon president, Paul Biya, in his sick bed and the news is unsettling to his family and supporters. For purposes of decency, the Cameroon Concord News Group editorial team […]
7, August 2021
Yaoundé: Gendarmerie arrests 30 suspected drug traffickers 0
Cameroon National Gendarmerie said Friday its forces have arrested a group of 30 individuals in the capital, Yaoundé for allegedly trafficking illicit drugs. The suspects were arrested during two raids carried out on July 30 in the Ntaba and Manguiers neighborhoods of the city, according to a statement released Friday afternoon by the gendarmerie. “(During […]
7, August 2021
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Yaoundé rejects Human Rights Watch report on abuses by troops 0
Cameroonian army said Thursday that it firmly opposed what it called “outrageous and provocative” report by the U.S.-based organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) on atrocities committed by its troops in its English-speaking region of Northwest. The report published on Monday accused government forces of destruction of property, rape, murder and execution of civilians and looting […]
7, August 2021
South Africa: Jailed ex-President Zuma in hospital 0
South Africa’s imprisoned former President Jacob Zuma has been admitted to hospital for observation near the Estcourt Correctional Center where he is currently serving a 15-month sentence, the government announced on Friday. Zuma is in prison for defying a Constitutional Court order to testify at a state-backed inquiry probing allegations of corruption during his presidential […]
7, August 2021
Geneva: Biya seen with a head bandage 0
President Paul Biya was recently spotted in a secured park in Geneva with what appeared to be a bandage on the back of his head. The bandage appeared toward the left side of the 88-year-old dictator’s head during a walk in the Geneva Park, Cameroon Intelligence Report correspondent on special assignment to Geneva covering the […]
6, August 2021
Football tsunami: Barca captain Busquets ‘trying to digest’ Messi departure 0
Barcelona captain Sergio Busquets said the shock of Lionel Messi leaving the Spanish giants had yet to sink in as he thanked the Argentine for all he’d done for the club on Friday. The six-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi had been expected to sign a new five year deal with Barcelona on Thursday but instead, […]
6, August 2021
Remains of 5 police officers returned to Yaoundé three weeks after they died in S. Cameroons 0
The remains of 5 Cameroon government police officers killed in the Southern Cameroons war returned home to Yaoundé and have been handed over to their families. A Cameroon government military ambulance carrying the caskets arrived in the Yaoundé military mortuary today and a handover ceremony was staged by the police force. The five police officers […]
9, August 2021
Olympic flag arrives in Paris ahead of 2024 Games 0
by soter • Headline News, Sports, World
Mayor Anne Hidalgo returned to the French capital on Monday with the Olympic flag from Tokyo ahead of Paris’s turn to host the Games in 2024. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo brandished the Olympic flag after disembarking from the Air France flight that brought many of France’s Olympic medalists back to Charles de Gaulle airport. Hidalgo, […]