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23, November 2020
Coronavirus payday: Frontrunners emerge in race for vaccine 0
Dozens of companies, from biotech start-ups to Big Pharma, are racing to develop a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine, both to meet urgent medical need and for the potential payday. Positive results from final stage trials of several vaccine candidates have raised hopes that there is light at the end of the tunnel in the […]
22, November 2020
US Politics: Federal judge dismisses Trump campaign Pennsylvania lawsuit 0
A US federal judge has dealt a new blow to President Donald Trump’s long-shot bid to reverse the results of the disputed presidential election held on November 3. US District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit which sought to overturn the results in the state, calling Trump’s legal claim a […]
22, November 2020
Al-Qaeda in North Africa appoints new leader to replace Droukdel 0
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has chosen a new leader to replace Abdelmalek Droukdel, who was killed in June by French forces, the SITE monitoring group reported Saturday. Algerian Abu Obaida Yusuf al-Annabi, the head of AQIM’s “Council of Dignitaries”, was named as Droukdel’s successor, SITE said. Al-Annabi has been on the American “international […]
22, November 2020
Biya and the rule of law in the two Cameroons 0
Many Cameroon political commentators including the renowned Prof PLO Lumumba have described President Paul Biya as a prominent and successful failure. To be sure, Biya has spent all his adult life chasing monetary deals, young Cameroonian and Ghanaian women and hiding from the media both at home and abroad. Biya has never sat in any […]
22, November 2020
Paul Biya is offering Cameroon’s Anglophones too little, too late 0
The announcement of the elections and the implementation measures comes as Cameroon is embroiled by a conflict in which separatist fighters in the Anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions seek to create an independent state called Ambazonia. This conflict stems from the systematic marginalization of Anglophones, who comprise nearly 20 percent of the country’s population, but […]
21, November 2020
Eto’o en route to Spanish third division club Racing Murcia 0
Racing de Murcia president Morris Pagniello has confirmed ongoing talks to bring former Barcelona and Inter Milan striker Samuel Eto’o to the Spanish third division. The Cameroon legend retired from football in September 2019, after spending a year at Qatar SC but he could make a surprise return to the pitch to help Antonio Pedreno’s […]
21, November 2020
An Encomium to Rev. Dr Jervis Kebei Kewi on the occasion of his nomination as Secretary of the Cameroon Episcopal Conference 0
An Encomium is a Latin word deriving from the Ancient Greek enkomion, meaning “the praise of a person or thing.” Another Latin equivalent is “laudatio”, “a speech in praise of someone or something”. This encomium is dedicated to one of my most cherished and highly esteemed educationist, erudite formator, in the person of Dr Jervis […]
21, November 2020
Nigeria: Ambazonian refugees get health security in Taraba 0
The Jesuit Refugees Service (JRS) has assisted no fewer than 50, 000 refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria from 2018 to date. Its Head of Programmes in Nigeria, Tamara Hart, disclosed this yesterday at the launching of Protection and Health Services for Camerounian refugees in Taraba State. Hart said the group was not […]
21, November 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Involve Women In Peace Talks- YAWC Network 0
The Global Leadership of the Young African Women Congress (YAWC) Network has held an extraordinary virtual leadership summit to discuss the ongoing Anglophone crisis in Cameroon. This followed a request by the leadership of the Cameroon Chapter to the YAWC Network Council to intervene in the crisis following recent killings of school children, believed to […]
23, November 2020
G20 leaders pledge fair global distribution of coronavirus vaccine 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies vowed on Sunday to spare no effort to supply COVID-19 drugs, tests and vaccines affordably and fairly to “all people”, reflecting worries that the pandemic could deepen global divisions between rich and poor. The pandemic and prospects of an uneven and uncertain economic recovery were at the centre […]