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26, October 2020
Kumba Massacre: Catholic bishop to hold mass for victims, families 0
Bishop Agapitus Nfon expressed his shock at the mass shooting at Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy, in Bamileke Street, Fiango, Kumba, on October 24, 2020, and said prayers for the families of the victims will be said on Friday. “As your spiritual father, I invite you all, especially school children and students and parents and […]
26, October 2020
Formula 1: Hamilton overtakes Schumacher with record 92nd win 0
Lewis Hamilton became Formula One’s record all-time race-winner on Sunday when he claimed his 92nd victory at the Portuguese Grand Prix to pass Michael Schumacher at the top of the list. His win lifted him one clear of Schumacher’s 14-year-old record of 91 triumphs after a thrilling inaugural F1 race at the Algarve International Circuit. […]
26, October 2020
UN says Kumba massacre is ‘the worst atrocity’ 0
Hundreds of Southern Cameroonians held a peaceful procession through the streets of Kumba town and ended at the site of a school attacked on Saturday that the Ambazonia Interim Government has blamed on Cameroon government forces. The Southern Cameroonians in the Meme County carried placards denouncing the attack, while calling for an end to war […]
25, October 2020
Ambazonia Interim Gov’t strongly condemns the massacre of six children at Mother Francisca Bilingual Academy KUMBA 0
MASSACRE OF SIX CHILDREN AT MOTHER FRANCISCA BILLINGUAL ACADEMY, KUMBA Yesterday, 24 October 2020, an act of despicable barbarism was perpetrated upon our people in Kumba, Meme County, Southern Cameroons. Eyewitnesses attest that at about 11:30am, armed men entered the Mother Francisca International Billingual Academy, Fiango Kumba and opened fire on students. Six students were […]
25, October 2020
Nigeria: Looting sweeps as authorities struggle with unrest 0
Nigerian authorities struggled to halt looting across the country on Sunday as crowds defied curfew orders to ransack government warehouses in the latest in a wave of unrest sweeping Africa’s most populous nation. The country’s police chief on Saturday ordered the immediate mobilisation of all “operational assets” as he sought to curb turmoil sparked by […]
25, October 2020
Kumba Massacre: The government must clean up its mess 0
The world is once more playing spectator to the gruesome acts committed by some unidentified armed men in Cameroon. Yesterday, armed men stormed the premises of a prestigious bilingual school in Kumba, the southwest region’s biggest city, and left a trail of death and destruction. Some five students were killed in cold blood, some of […]
25, October 2020
Football: Real Madrid beat Barca 3-1 in first ‘Clasico’ match without fans 0
Sergio Ramos scored the winning goal in Real Madrid’s 3-1 win at Barcelona after a video review awarded him a penalty in the Spanish league on Saturday. Ramos restored Madrid’s advantage in the 63rd from the spot after a brush with Barcelona’s Clement Lenglet in the area. After consulting the video screen on the touch […]
25, October 2020
French Cameroun: BICEC’s capital increases from 12 to 49 billion FCFA 0
The International Bank of Cameroon for Savings and Credit (BICEC), a subsidiary of the Moroccan Central People’s Bank (BCP) Group, quadrupled its share capital with new subscriptions of CFAF 37 billion. After the takeover of BICEC in 2019 by BCP, the new buyer announced the capital increase among the priority measures. With a share capital […]
24, October 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Gunmen storm school in Kumba, killing at least six children 0
Gunmen stormed a school in Cameroon on Saturday and opened fire indiscriminately, killing at least six children and wounding about eight more in a region where separatist insurgents operate, officials and parents said. Arriving on motorbikes and in civilian clothes, the attackers hit the school around midday in the city of Kumba in South West […]
27, October 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: UN shocked and outraged over horrific attack on school 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
On 24 October, a group of armed men attacked Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy in Kumba, in Cameroon’s restive South-West region. According to local reports, the victims were aged between 12 and 14. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Cameroonian authorities to conduct a thorough investigation to ensure that those responsible are held accountable, his […]