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15, February 2021
Biya oldest African Leader, celebrates 88th birthday 0
Africa’s oldest and second longest serving leader, Cameroonian President Paul Biya, celebrated his 88th birthday on February 13. Ceremonies were organized in Cameroon’s major towns, with loyal government ministers and young people pledging their support, while those opposed to his 50-year rule demanded the octogenarian hand over power. Biya is blamed by some for the […]
15, February 2021
South Africa’s ex-president Zuma ‘no show’ at corruption inquiry 0
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has not shown up at a state inquiry into corruption during his time in office. The former president defied an order by the country’s top court to appear before the commission on Monday to answer questions regarding allegations of high-level graft. Zuma’s tenure in office from 2009 to 2018, […]
15, February 2021
First woman, first African: Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala set to be named WTO boss 0
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala looks set to be confirmed Monday as the first woman and first African leader of the beleaguered World Trade Organization, a near-paralysed institution desperately needing a kick-start. The WTO has called a special general council meeting at which the former Nigerian finance minister and World Bank veteran is expected to be formally […]
15, February 2021
Macron meets G5 Sahel leaders amid questions over France’s strategy 0
Leaders of France and five Sahel countries on Monday begin a two-day summit to discuss the G5-Sahel grouping’s anti-insurgency operations amid mounting local dissatisfaction over the military-heavy approach that has failed to stabilise the poorly administered region. Leaders of the so-called G5 Sahel – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger – are attending the […]
14, February 2021
Football: Salah vows Liverpool won’t give up title fight 0
Mohamed Salah has warned Manchester City that Liverpool will “fight like champions” despite a miserable run that plunged his side’s Premier League title defence into turmoil. Jurgen Klopp’s side are languishing 13 points behind leaders City after crashing to a 3-1 defeat at Leicester on Saturday. Salah had given Liverpool the lead with his 17th […]
14, February 2021
French Cameroun: Fru Ndi to quit as SDF Chairman 0
John Fru Ndi, the so-called charismatic leader of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) will no longer be chairman of the party he created in 1990. At almost 80 years old, the Biya French Cameroun acolyte announced Thursday, February 11, 2021, his intention to no longer preside over the destiny of the SDF after 30 years […]
14, February 2021
Spain’s Catalonia holds regional election, testing separatists’ strength 0
Catalonia goes to the polls Sunday for an election Madrid hopes will unseat the region’s ruling separatists more than three years after a failed bid to break away from Spain. But the vote could see a high level of abstentions as Spain battles a third wave of the pandemic. Regional authorities ramped up restrictions to […]
14, February 2021
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Why the bitterness will never end 0
For four long years, the Yaoundé government should have understood that violence only begets violence, but the authorities of this collapsing country seem to be on a diet of power and nothing, except a robust intervention of the international community can instil some sanity in the minds of those who rule Cameroon. Violence seems to […]
13, February 2021
Five people including a Capitol Police officer died: US Senate votes to acquit Trump of ‘incitement of insurrection’ 0
The US Senate voted Saturday acquit former president Donald Trump of incitement of insurrection charges linked to the deadly January 6 invasion of the Capitol building. Senate Democrats led by impeachment manager Jamie Raskin began laying out the case against Trump on Tuesday. In three days of testimony, they accused the former president of directly […]
15, February 2021
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala becomes first female head of WTO 0
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Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed Monday to head the leading international trade body as it seeks to to resolve disagreements over how it decides cases involving billions in sales and thousands of jobs. Okonjo-Iweala, 66, was appointed director-general of the World Trade Organization by representatives of the 164 member countries, according to a statement from […]