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30, October 2020
Pope Francis appeals for peace in Cameroon after deadly school attack 0
Pope Francis appealed for an end to violence in Cameroon Wednesday after seven students were killed in an attack on a school in the city of Kumba. “I participate in the suffering of the families of the young students barbarically killed last Saturday in Kumba, in Cameroon. I feel great bewilderment at such a cruel […]
30, October 2020
Southern Cameroons International Conference Starts Today 0
The International Conference on the Armed Conflict in the Southern Cameroons will start today October 30th in the USA. Though initially planned for March 2020, the COVID pandemic forced the organizers to re-schedule and convert to a virtual event. Cameroon Concord News Group understands that the planning team has been working very hard over the […]
29, October 2020
Algerian president Tebboune transferred to German hospital amid Covid-19 fears 0
Algeria’s president was transferred from hospital in Algiers to Germany on Wednesday, officials said, days after the 74-year-old went into self-isolation following reports of suspected coronavirus cases among his aides. “The President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune was transferred… to Germany for in-depth medical examinations on the recommendation of medical staff,” a statement from […]
29, October 2020
Blood of Southern Cameroons Children: World churches join UN in condemning brutal Kumba killings 0
World Council of Churches interim head Rev. Ioan Sauca has joined global Christians and the United Nations in expressing horror at the brutal attack on schoolchildren in Cameron in which assailants slaughtered at least eight students with firearms and machetes. The children were killed at the Mother Francisca International Academy in Kumba, Cameroon, on Oct. […]
29, October 2020
Rights groups call for ceasefire in Southern Cameroons 0
More than 35 human rights organizations have signed an open letter calling for a ceasefire in Cameroon after a massacre at a school on Saturday. At least seven pupils were killed and more than a dozen wounded when gunmen stormed the school in Kumba in the southwest of the country. Signatories to the letter include […]
29, October 2020
Prof. Lumumba names Biya among his four worst African leaders 0
Prof. PLO Lumumba, who is widely acknowledged in Africa as a fearless and outspoken statesman and an advocate of change, was the latest guest to be hosted on Real Talk with Nana, a virtual talk show based in the UK. Speaking on the topic, The Impact of Slavery and Colonisation on Africa, he applauded and […]
29, October 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Meme County holds Vigil to Remember Children Killed in School Attack 0
Residents in Kumba paid their respects to the seven lives lost, and those injured during the attack over the weekend. In the latest tragedy to come from Cameroon’s historically violent clash between Anglo and Francophone citizens, seven children were murdered after attackers stormed a school with guns and machetes over the weekend. In what has […]
29, October 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: National mourning for school attack victims 0
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya declared a day of national morning Wednesday to pay homage to victims of last week’s deadly shooting at a school in Kumba that killed at least seven. The national flag will be flown at half-mast on Oct. 31 throughout the nation, according to a presidential decree. At least seven children were […]
28, October 2020
US early voting surpasses 70 million, continuing historic pace 0
More than 70 million Americans have cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election, more than half the total turnout of the 2016 election with one week to go until Election Day, according to a Tuesday tally from the U.S. Elections Project. The tally, which shows a record-breaking pace that could lead to the highest voter […]
30, October 2020
United Nations, African Union complicit in Kumba kids massacre’ 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
The international community has come under criticism for its handling of the crisis in Cameroon, where radicals killed eight children last weekend. Twelve other children were injured when a group of unidentified armed men attacked the Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy in Kumba, in the south-west. While no group has claimed responsibility of the attack, […]