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24, October 2020
Nigeria’s Buhari says dozens dead in unrest following anti-police abuse protests 0
At least 51 civilians have been killed in Nigeria’s unrest following days of peaceful protests over police abuses, the president said Friday, blaming “hooliganism” for the violence while asserting that security forces have used “extreme restraint.” President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments are expected to further inflame tensions in Africa’s most populous country after Amnesty International reported […]
24, October 2020
French Cameroun: Customs seize record amount of ivory tusks 0
Cameroon customs have seized 626 kg of smuggled ivory, amounting to 118 elephant tusks during an operation in Ambam, a subdivision in South region, officials said on Thursday. The recovery indicated, about 59 elephants had been killed amid reports the smuggler intended to sell the tusks to an international buyer. State media, Cameroon Radio Television […]
24, October 2020
Cameroonians are resisting attempts to raise tax revenue from rising mobile use 0
Earlier this week (Oct. 19) in Cameroon, president Paul Biya ordered the deferment of the collection, by digital means, of custom duties and taxes on imported phones and other electronic devices. A new automated system for the collection had been scheduled to go operational on Oct. 15. But the move sparked widespread outrage, especially online […]
24, October 2020
French Cameroun: Police Chase, Beat Kamto Supporters 0
Witnesses say Cameroon police have chased and beaten at least 200 opposition supporters outside the home of opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who has been under de facto house arrest for over a month. Anti-riot police were deployed to Kamto’s home this week to contain crowds of supporters demanding he be released. Police blocked Kamto from […]
24, October 2020
US: Cameroonian asylum seekers were subject to torture at an ICE detention center in Mississippi 0
If you thought ICE detention centers couldn’t get any worse, think again. In Mississippi, US immigration staff allegedly tortured Cameroonian asylum seekers until they signed their deportation documents. Cameroonians are seeking refuge outside of their country due to Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis, which has been occurring since October of 2016. According to the Central Africa branch […]
23, October 2020
Race for the White House: Trump plans to vote early on Saturday in Florida 0
US President Donald Trump will cast an early vote in the presidential election while he is visiting Florida this weekend, White House spokesman Judd Deere said on Thursday. The Republican president plans to vote in West Palm Beach, Florida, where his Mar-a-Lago estate is situated, on Saturday, according to Deere. This comes as he is […]
23, October 2020
CPDM baron says ruling party is controlled by homosexuals 0
Politician and professor Pascal Charlemagne Messanga Nyamding recently floated the claim that his own ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) party is controlled by homosexuals. He made that charge in the World News Cameroon newspaper despite the fact that the CPDM is the party of the country’s revered longtime president, His Excellency Paul Biya. Messanga […]
23, October 2020
CPDM Crime Syndicate: Minister Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh weaponises presidential directives 0
Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, the all-powerful secretary-general at the presidency of the republic, has a key weapon in his running battle against certain rival ministers and advisors to Paul Biya. Africa intelligence reports that Ngoh Ngoh who now has the authority to sign directives on behalf of President Biya is weaponising presidential directives and targeting his […]
23, October 2020
US: Trump and Biden face off in more civil, but equally contentious, final debate 0
After the first presidential debate was panned so widely that organizers introduced a mute button, Thursday’s second and final debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden was far more civil, yet showed the same sharp divides on the key issues facing the United States. Trump, the Republican incumbent, took a more restrained […]
24, October 2020
Deportation of Southern Cameroons Asylum Seekers: Why Europe should not follow the US in making a dramatic regression in the protection of human rights 0
by soter • Cameroon, News
On the 14th of October 2020, an airplane carrying onboard over 100 English speaking Cameroonians from the United States landed at the Douala International Airport in French Cameroun into the waiting hands of a French Cameroun security squad stationed at the airport. Their fate is now a mystery. Nations are bound by the principle of […]