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8, March 2021
Niger’s outgoing president wins coveted Mo Ibrahim prize 0
Mahamadou Issoufou, who is stepping down as president of coup-prone Niger after two terms in office, on Monday won Africa’s top prize for leadership. He was awarded the 2020 Mo Ibrahim Prize for facing “seemingly insurmountable challenges”, ranging from deep poverty to jihadism and desertification. Despite these enduring problems, “Issoufou has led his people on […]
8, March 2021
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Canadian House of Commons weighs in, says there is no end to hostilities in sight.” 0
On 16 February 2021, the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (the Subcommittee) heard from witnesses who gave members an update on the conflict between the Government of Cameroon and the English speaking regions of the Republic of Cameroon that has been escalating […]
7, March 2021
Making of Obiang Nguema II: Series of explosions hits military barracks in Equatorial Guinea 0
A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 15 people and wounded hundreds of others, state television reported. TGVE read out a statement from President Teodoro Obiang Nguema which said the explosion was due to the “negligent handling of dynamite” in the military barracks located in the neighborhood of […]
7, March 2021
France shifts policy on aid to Africa to counter rising Chinese influence 0
France is looking to reform its policy on aid to Africa – making it both more generous and more efficiently targeted – as part of a strategy to counter China’s rising geopolitical influence. Africa’s booming economies and population have created lucrative opportunities for international players, making the continent a hotbed of geopolitical competition over the […]
7, March 2021
US: Senate passes Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus bill 0
The Senate on Saturday passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan in a party-line vote after an all-night session that saw Democrats battling among themselves over jobless aid and the Republican minority failing in attempts to push through some three dozen amendments. The final bill includes $400 billion in one-time payments of $1,400 […]
7, March 2021
Rape in Southern Cameroons War and La Republique du Cameroun’s tradition of impunity 0
Rape has successfully been mischaracterized and dismissed by President Biya and his top military leaders in Yaoundé for more than three decades and in the last four years; the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime has accepted rape precisely because it is so commonplace in Southern Cameroons. Ever since President Paul Biya declared the war against […]
7, March 2021
Prime Minister Ngute says Yaoundé to receive 1 million vaccine doses, did not specify which vaccines! 0
Cameroon, one of the countries in Africa worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, is set to receive “very shortly” more than one million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute said on Friday. Pointing to “a deterioration in the epidemiological situation” in the country, Dion Ngute told state radio that “more than one […]
7, March 2021
Southern Cameroons War: EU waiting for Biden, Paris steps up pressure, a US strike possible 0
After the Vatican made its voice heard, Paris has reminded the Cameroonian government of its concerns about the continuing crisis in the English-speaking provinces. European Union states hope that the new US administration, which purports to put human rights at the heart of its foreign policy, will come to their help, reports Africa Intelligence. Four […]
5, March 2021
Clashes in Senegal kill one after arrest of opposition leader Sonko 0
Senegalese police clashed with supporters of arrested opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on Thursday, leaving one person dead in the south of the country, a police official said. It was the first death confirmed in clashes since Sonko was arrested on Wednesday for disturbing public order as protests broke out ahead of his court appearance on […]
8, March 2021
With no official result in, both sides claim victory in Ivory Coast elections 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, Politics
Ivory Coast’s ruling party and the main opposition both claimed victory Sunday in the West African nation’s legislative elections, with the official results still to be announced. Saturday’s polls come as a key test of stability following violence before and after October’s presidential vote, which claimed 87 lives in the former French colony. Adama Bictogo, […]