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10, September 2020
Ghanaian appointed UN Coordinator in Cameroon 0
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Ghana-born Matthias Z. Naab as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Cameroon. A UN statement said Mr Naab holds dual citizenship as he was born in Ghana but grew up in the United States and his appointment has the approval of the Cameroonian government. The statement adds […]
10, September 2020
Southern Cameroons: The curious plan to rebuild from the war, while it still rages on 0
The government and UNDP have announced a plan for the Anglophone regions. How have people reacted? This spring, Cameroon’s government announced a new plan for the “reconstruction” of the country’s two Anglophone regions. Since 2017, this area has been embroiled in a bloody war between national security forces and armed separatists. The new initiative has […]
10, September 2020
French Cameroun: Grenade blast injures 7 in Talakachi 0
A grenade exploded in a busy area in Talakachi village near the border with Nigeria on Wednesday injuring seven civilians including women and children. “It was a huge blast with thick black smoke” a security source who sued for anonymity hinted Cameroon Concord News. “Women and children were burning,” according to an eyewitness report. A […]
10, September 2020
Coronavirus capable of invading brain: study 0
Headaches, confusion and delirium experienced by some Covid-19 patients could be the result of the coronavirus directly invading the brain, according to a study published Wednesday. The research is still preliminary — but offers several new lines of evidence to support what was previously a largely untested theory. According to the paper, which was led […]
10, September 2020
Music: Ronald Bell of Kool and the Gang dies at 68 0
Ronald Bell — a co-founder of Kool and the Gang, the heavyweight funk group behind hits like “Celebration,” “Jungle Boogie” and “Ladies’ Night” — died Wednesday. He was 68 years old. The performer died at his home in the US Virgin Islands, the group’s publicist Angelo Ellerbee told AFP, without specifying a cause of death. […]
10, September 2020
Football: Premier League clubs forget coronavirus crisis in transfer splurge 0
Just five months after Premier League clubs consulted their players about taking a 30 percent wage cut, the English top-flight is again blowing Europe’s other top leagues out the water when it comes to splashing the cash. A return to the routine spending of tens of millions of pounds on players jars with the bleak […]
9, September 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Biya regime launch security operation in Bamenda 0
Cameroon has launched a new security operation in Bamenda, a city in North West, one of the two Anglophone separatist regions marred by violence since 2016, according to security sources. “Defence and Security Forces (DSF) have initiated a special operation to secure the city of Bamenda and its surroundings code-named “Bamenda Clean” from Tuesday September […]
9, September 2020
Southern Cameroons War: U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee says int’l community must do more to speak out 0
The Anglophone conflict has inflicted deadly violence & human rights abuses against Cameroonians. The int’l community must do more to speak out against these atrocities & engage all sides to pursue an inclusive & constructive path toward peace & stability. U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Ben Cardin […]
9, September 2020
Barrister Agbor Balla betrayed Southern Cameroonians with rights report: Dr Patrick Ayuk 0
Cameroon Concord News Group senior political man, Dr Patrick Ayuk says Barrister Agbor Balla has betrayed the entire Federal Republic of Ambazonia by publishing a “sex dossier” on Ambazonia Restoration Forces. The South African based Southern Cameroons academic also stated that the Agbor Balla betrayal will not last long. “Barrister Agbor Balla betrayed the Ambazonian […]
10, September 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Civilians escaping the renewed fighting 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
Cameroon’s military this week launched an operation to weed out anglophone separatists in the northwestern city of Bamenda. Locals say the commercial hub is eerily quiet after the military banned motorcycles, and rebels responded by demanding all vehicles stay off the streets. Civilians have been escaping the renewed fighting to neighboring towns and villages. Twenty-seven-year-old […]