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5, August 2020
UN outraged by attack on camp hosting displaced people in French Cameroun 0
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, strongly condemns an unprovoked and brutal attack on a site hosting 800 internally displaced people (IDPs) near the village of Nguetchewe, in Cameroon’s Far North region. At least 18 people were killed and 11 injured in the incident during the early hours of Sunday 2 August when assailants threw an […]
4, August 2020
Biya Regime Seals Church That Claims COVID-19 Does Not Exists 0
This music is played on loudspeakers by a group of seven members of the Tabernacles of Freedoms Ministries in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde. The four women and three men move from house to house and street to street calling themselves end time evangelists. Thirty-two-year-old Prudence Mayah, the group leader is referred to by church members as […]
4, August 2020
Maradona pays tribute to Tataw Stephen 0
Former Argentina captain Diego Maradona has saluted his late Cameroon counterpart Stephen Tataw who died last Friday aged 57. A right-back in his playing days, Tataw captained Cameroon at the 1990 and 1994 Fifa World Cup tournaments. At Italy 1990, he led a team that stunned then defending champions Argentina 1-0 in their opening Group […]
4, August 2020
Farewell Ambassador Tataw Eta Stephen alias Janvion 0
Powerful and yet, affable, that was Stephen. How does anyone explain the logic of basking in glory in life and languishing in anonymity in death? Such is the mystery of life. On the whole, I will forever admire him as a great guy because he had the courage of his convictions, and he paid the […]
3, August 2020
French Cameroun: Military plane crashes, no fatalities reported 0
A Cameroonian military plane crashed in a bush during landing at Maroua Airport in the country’s Far North region on Sunday, but there were no fatalities, local authorities said. The plane sped off the runway following landing and crashed in the bush, authorities said. Several people, including civilians and soldiers, were injured and were immediately […]
3, August 2020
FIFA: Infantino to ‘respect’ any ethics committee decision 0
FIFA president Gianni Infantino will “respect any decision by the ethics committee”, world football’s governing body said Monday after Swiss authorities opened criminal proceedings against him last week. A Swiss special prosecutor has launched proceedings against Infantino, as part of an investigation into suspected collusion with the country’s attorney general, Michael Lauber. Both have denied […]
3, August 2020
Amba Crisis: US Assistant Secretary of State Tibor insists Anglophones desire control over their own affairs 0
Tibor Peter Nagy Jr., the United States Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, says the UNDP-backed Presidential Plan for the Reconstruction and Development of the North West and South West Regions (PPRD-NW/SW) may only succeed if government understands the “keen desire” of the people. The U.S. diplomat was speaking Thursday, […]
3, August 2020
Vatican: Benedict XVI ‘extremely frail’ 0
Former pope Benedict XVI became seriously ill himself after visiting his sick brother in Germany in June and is “extremely frail”, according to a report in the Monday edition of the German Passauer Neue Presse newspaper. Benedict, 93, is suffering from erysipelas of the face, a virus that causes a facial rash and episodes of […]
3, August 2020
Global coronavirus cases top 18 million as WHO warns of ‘response fatigue’ 0
The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide passed the 18-million mark on Monday, with the World Health Organization warning that the effects of the pandemic “will be felt for decades to come”. The virus that causes Covid-19 has killed more than 687,000 people since it first emerged in China late last year, according to an […]
5, August 2020
Two huge Beirut explosions kill 78, injure thousands 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Rescuers worked through the night into Wednesday after two enormous explosions ripped through Beirut’s port, killing at least 78 people and injuring thousands, as they wrecked buildings across the Lebanese capital. The second blast sent an enormous orange fireball into the sky, immediately followed by a tornado-like shockwave that flattened the port and shattered windows […]