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17, March 2021
COVID-denying president of Tanzania John Magufuli is dead 0
Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli is dead. In a televised address on Thursday night, Tanzania vice-president Samia Suluhu Hassan said that Magufuli had died of heart complications. “It is with great regret that I inform you that today, 17 March 2021, at 18:00, we have lost our courageous leader, President John Pombe Magufuli of Tanzania,” […]
17, March 2021
Mali: Dozens of soldiers killed in attack on army base 0
At least 31 soldiers were killed in an attack in northern Mali this week, an army officer said Wednesday, in one of the deadliest assaults on the military this year. Dozens of assailants on motorbikes and pickup trucks on Monday stormed a military post southwest of the town of Ansongo, near the borders with Burkina […]
17, March 2021
US-Russia Tension: Kremlin recalls US ambassador after Biden threatens sanctions for election-meddling 0
Russia recalled its ambassador to the United States to Moscow for consultations on the future of US-Russia ties on Wednesday, shortly after President Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin would “pay a price” for alleged election-meddling. Biden made his comments after a US intelligence report supported longstanding allegations that Putin likely directed efforts to try to […]
17, March 2021
Football: “African team must win World Cup” declares new CAF chief Patrice Motsepe 0
Four days after being elected President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Patrice Motsepe set out his plans to take the sport forward across the continent at a press conference in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The 59 year-old South African mining billionaire assumed the role on Friday at a CAF General Assembly meeting in Morocco, […]
17, March 2021
Corrupt France: Sarkozy back on trial again after conviction 0
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Wednesday over claims of illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election bid, just two weeks after a landmark conviction for corruption. On March 1, the 66-year-old became France’s first post-war president to be sentenced to prison when he was given a three-year term, two years of which […]
17, March 2021
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Chasing the shadow 0
The Southern Cameroonian rebellion which has been robbing the Yaounde government of its sleep is gradually stallling not because Southern Cameroonians are tired of fighting those who have polluted their lives for more than half a century, but because some of those who are supposed to point the population in the right direction have simply […]
16, March 2021
Return of the god: Ibrahimovic is back in Sweden squad 0
Zlatan Ibrahimovic will return to Sweden’s squad after an almost five-year hiatus to play in World Cup qualifiers at the end of March, head coach Janne Andersson said on Tuesday. The player, known for his not-so-humble ways, also announced his return himself by posting a picture of himself on Instagram in the Swedish team kit […]
16, March 2021
Family wants answers after Cameroonian woman in Quebec posts video begging for help in hospital, dies 2 days later 0
The Quebec coroner is investigating the death of Mireille Ndjomouo, who posted a video on social media two days before she died claiming staff at a hospital on Montreal’s South Shore had ignored her allergies. Ndjomouo, a 44-year-old single mother of three from Cameroon, posted a video to social media last Sunday. She repeatedly said staff […]
16, March 2021
CPDM Crime Syndicate receives China-donated medical equipment to fight COVID-19 0
The Yaounde Central Hospital, one of the largest designated hospitals for COVID-19 treatment in Cameroon, received a batch of medical equipment donated by China to fight against the novel coronavirus. The equipment includes ventilators, oxygenerators, electrocardiographs, among others. “This donation comes at the right time. We are all together in the fight against COVID-19, a […]
18, March 2021
Ngarbuh Massacre: Human Rights Watch says justice should be done and seen to be done at trial 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
The trial of three members of security forces accused of involvement in the killings of 21 civilians in Ngarbuh, in Cameroon’s North-West region, is due to resume today. The trial, which began on December 17, 2020, and adjourned twice, takes place before the military court in the capital, Yaoundé, about 380 kilometers from Ngarbuh, making […]