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9, January 2021
Most Americans want immediate removal of ‘unfit’ Trump 0
A new poll has shown that a majority of Americans want outgoing US President Donald Trump removed from office immediately. According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted after the US Capitol violence incited by Trump, fifty-seven percent of Americans want the Republican president to be immediately removed. Trump, who encouraged a protest this week in Washington, […]
8, January 2021
Woman suicide bomber kills 13 in French Cameroun 0
Thirteen civilians, eight of them children, died Friday when a woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a jihadist attack on a village in northern Cameroon, a traditional chief and a police officer told AFP. Cameroon’s Far North region is grappling with deadly incursions from neighbouring Nigeria, where an insurgency launched by Boko Haram in […]
8, January 2021
Southern Cameroons Crisis January 2021: Ten Cameroon gov’t soldiers Killed in Ambazonia ambush 0
Two soldiers, a policeman including a gendarmerie officer in civilian attire were killed at the Santa control post in Matazem late yesterday in Mezam in the Northern Zone of Southern Cameroons bringing the number of service men killed to ten in just a week. Several other army soldiers were also injured in Thursday’s ambush, an […]
8, January 2021
Ghana: President Nana Akufo Addo sworn in for a 2nd term 0
Nana Akufo-Addo was on Thursday sworn in for a second term as Ghana’s president. It comes a day after a brawl between rival politicians in parliament during the election of the speaker. Soldiers were briefly deployed after the unusual scenes in one of Africa’s most stable democracies. The president defeated his main rival, ex-president John […]
8, January 2021
‘White privilege’: Police accused of hypocrisy after Trump mob storms US Capitol 0
Images of a mob of Donald Trump supporters surging past overwhelmed police to storm the US Capitol have shocked the world. Many have also asked why they bare such a stark contrast to the heavy police presence and violent tactics deployed when Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets of Washington DC last year. […]
8, January 2021
Who’s who in the Trump mob: Conspiracists, neo-Nazis and gun activists 0
The tattoo-chested man in a horned headdress, the middle-aged intruder with his foot on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk and the woman shot dead by police: Their images have been beamed around the world but who are the Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol? Pro-gun campaigner Richard Barnett, 60, from Gravette in northwest Arkansas, barged […]
8, January 2021
Yaounde: With no power over government, Prime Minister Ngute digs in heels 0
Though technically the highest-ranked minister, Joseph Dion Ngute is only the head of government in name and it is Paul Biya’s advisors who manage the executive’s day-to-day actions. It is not strange in the minds of every Southern Cameroonian. For over 57 years after independence and re-unification, there has never been an Southern Cameroons President […]
8, January 2021
African Nations Championship: Zambia, Guinea, Namibia and Tanzania ‘not safe’ in Southern Cameroons 0
The Southern Cameroons Interim Government has warned CAF that the city of Limbe is a war zone and unfit for African Nations Championship matches. These matches include pool D games involving Namibia, Zambia, Guinea and Tanzania. The tournament is due to run from 16 January to 7 February across three cities. Other tournament venues are […]
7, January 2021
A President Unhappy: 4 people died during the siege, more than 50 people were arrested 0
President Donald Trump said there would be an “orderly transition on January 20” after Congress concluded the electoral vote count early Thursday, certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, hours after he appeared to excuse the violent occupation of the US Capitol by his supporters. A woman was fatally shot, windows were bashed and the mob forced […]
9, January 2021
‘Significant disruption’ at UK borders as Brexit reality unfolds 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, News
As long lorry queues form to enter the European Union (EU) zone in France and some refused entry at ports, businesses are being told to prepare for “significant additional disruption” in the immediate post-Brexit period. Cabinet Office minister, Michael Gove, said on Friday (January 08) that disruption at Britain’s border had not been “too profound” […]