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22, May 2021
Football: Bayern Munich’s Lewandowski breaks Bundes Liga 49-year scoring record 0
Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski said it felt like being in a “science fiction film” as he scored his 41st Bundesliga goal of the season on Saturday to break Gerd Mueller’s 49-year-old German league record for a single campaign. Lewandowski scored in the 90th minute of Bayern’s 5-2 home win over Augsburg having equalled Mueller’s […]
22, May 2021
Football: Ronaldo ‘still a Juve player,’ insists Pirlo before crunch finale 0
Cristiano Ronaldo remains very much a Juventus player, coach Andrea Pirlo insisted Saturday with the Portuguese star’s future in doubt going into the final game of the season. Juve’s Champions League hopes are no longer in their hands as they head for 11th-placed Bologna needing a win and hoping rivals Napoli and AC Milan slip […]
22, May 2021
Yaounde-Nsimalen Airport: “Camair Co has been flying coffins for over a decade” 0
Even before the Friday incident at the Nsimalen International airport when a plane belonging to Cameroon’s national carrier, CAMAIR-CO ran off the runway, causing panic among passengers and flight crew, analysts had warned that CPDM corruption and poor leadership was making it difficult for the Biya regime to improve Cameroon’s air safety. The exact circumstances […]
22, May 2021
European Football: High-stakes weekend ahead as title races, Champions League places up for grabs 0
As this year’s pandemic-affected European football season wraps up in many countries across the continent this weekend, there is plenty still to play for. Several rebel Super League clubs are facing some harsh realities. Two of the five top leagues are still awaiting a champion. And some some clubs with rich histories are facing relegation. […]
22, May 2021
Yaoundé: Detained journalist on hunger strike 0
A journalist who has been held in Cameroon for ten months for “propagating false news” has started a hunger strike, a media trade union said Thursday. Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) and local press unions regularly denounce what they say are arbitrary detentions of journalists critical of Cameroon President Paul Biya and his government. Emmanuel Mbombog […]
21, May 2021
Biya Covid-19 Scandal: Several cabinet ministers implicated, Health officials in police drag net 0
There are strong indications of embezzlement against several Biya regime ministers in the context of the management of covid-19 funds. A report that has just been made public by the Francophone dominated Audit Chamber of the Supreme Court listed 30 cases of mismanagement against the Ministers of Public Health and Scientific Research. Minister Manaouda Malachie […]
21, May 2021
US, international community hail Egypt-brokered Gaza ceasefire 0
US, UK, Egyptian and UN leaders on Thursday welcomed a ceasefire announced by Israel and Hamas after 11 days of bombing and rocket strikes that killed nearly 250 people. “I believe we have a genuine opportunity to make progress and I’m committed to working towards it,” Biden said at the White House, highlighting Egypt’s role […]
21, May 2021
Spain sends more than 6,500 migrants back to Morocco 0
More than 6,500 migrants out of the approximately 8,000 who had entered Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta earlier this week have been sent back to Morocco, Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said on Friday. Marlaska told the Radio COPE the situation was now “normal” compared with the previous days, and hoped that the recent […]
21, May 2021
6 decades after independence, Anglophone and Francophone Cameroonians are still in search of common ground 0
On this day 49 years ago, Cameroon’s English and French speaking areas were reunited under a republic by a successful referendum. In 1972, the federal system was abolished in Cameroon following a referendum organized by Amadou Ahidjo, the first Cameroonian head of state. The Central African nation has since been fraught with difficulties. “The march […]
23, May 2021
Lava halts on edge of DR Congo’s main city after volcanic eruption, thousands flee 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, News
A smoking trail of lava from a volcanic eruption appeared to have halted a few hundred metres from the edge of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s main city on Sunday morning, said a Reuters reporter at the scene. Goma, a lakeside city of about 2 million people, was thrown into panic on Saturday evening as […]