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23, April 2021
More than 100 asylum seekers feared dead off Libyan coast 0
More than 100 Europe-bound migrants are feared dead in a shipwreck off Libya, independent rescue groups said. SOS Mediterranee, which operates the rescue vessel Ocean Viking, said late Thursday that the wreck of a rubber boat, which was initially carrying around 130 people, was spotted in the Mediterranean Sea northeast of the Libyan capital, Tripoli. […]
23, April 2021
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Yerima warns pro Yaounde agents crossing Ambazonia Interim Government red lines 0
The Vice President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government has warned political elites loyal to the French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé against threatening Southern Cameroonians respecting the Monday Ghost Town Interim Government directive, vowing a tough response to any pro Yaoundé figure that crosses Ambazonia’s red lines. In a statement on Tuesday, Dabney Yerima told […]
23, April 2021
US House passes bill to make Washington, DC, the 51st state 0
The US House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly voted, for the second time in less than a year, to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, sending it to the Senate where it faces stiff Republican opposition. By a vote of 216-208, the Democratic-controlled House approved the initiative with no Republican support. The population […]
23, April 2021
Three of seven kidnapped clergy freed in Haiti, French nationals remain captive 0
Three of seven Catholic clergy who were kidnapped in Haiti earlier this month have been released, a Church spokesman told AFP on Thursday, as the island nation grapples with a rise in violence and ongoing political crisis. A total of 10 people were abducted in Croix-des-Bouquets, a town northeast of the capital Port-au-Prince, in mid-April, […]
22, April 2021
Southern Cameroons Crisis: UN says 4,000 new refugee arrivals in Nigeria 0
Over 65,000 Cameroonian refugee men, women and children are registered in Akwa-Ibom, Benue, Cross River and Taraba States in Nigeria. Over 4,000 new refugee arrivals were reported in Taraba State, forced to flee violence in Cameroon. Urgent needs included food, sleeping mats, blankets, and health care. Some 27,000 refugees received cash for food of their […]
22, April 2021
Football: Idriss Kameni joins Song in Djibouti 0
Cameroon international Carlos Idriss Kameni appears set to join countryman Alex Song in Djibouti after reportedly signing for newly-crowned champions Arta Solar 7. Following a two-year hiatus from football, which followed a spell with Turkish giants Fenerbahce, ex-Espanyol and Malaga shot-stopper Kameni appears set to return to the game after being announced as a new […]
22, April 2021
Chad: World Leaders Mourn President Deby 0
Leading the mourners from the African continent, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said that Deby’s death will create a big vacuum in the war against Boko Haram as the late Chadian president was at the forefront among those who gave the terrorist group serious bashing in recent times. President Muhammadu Buhari, in a statement issued yesterday […]
22, April 2021
Germaine Ahidjo buried in Senegal (Video) 0
The late wife of Cameroon’s former President, Ahmadou Ahidjo is now resting beside her husband at the Yoff Muslem cemetery in Dakar, Senegal. She was laid to rest on Wednesday April 21 following her demise recently after suffering from an undisclosed illness. Germaine Ahidjo was buried beside her husband, the late president Ahmadou Ahidjo, who […]
22, April 2021
UN: Southern Cameroons lives should matter too 0
The treatment of black people, particularly by law enforcement, has become a principal point of protest in the western world. But little is said about the millions of black Africans mistreated by the ruthless security forces of authoritarian African regimes. If black lives matter regardless of where they are in the world, then it’s time […]
23, April 2021
Football: South Africa set to name former Real Madrid boss Queiroz as coach 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, Sports
South Africa will name a new national coach Saturday, with former Real Madrid manager and Manchester United assistant manager Carlos Queiroz favourite to return for a second spell in charge. Now 68, the Portuguese was in charge of Bafana Bafana for two years from 2000, taking the team to the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations […]