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12, June 2020
Burundi COVID-19 Transition: Court rules president-elect to take power after Nkurunziza’s death 0
Burundi’s constitutional court on Friday ruled that the country’s newly elected leader Evariste Ndayishimiye be sworn in following the sudden death of former leader Pierre Nkurunziza earlier this week. “No interim necessary, the president-elect… must be sworn in as soon as possible,” presidential advisor Willy Nyamitwe wrote on Twitter of the court’s announcement, which was […]
12, June 2020
Biya regime told to publish information on Emergency Reserve use for Covid-19 0
Cameroon’s government should immediately publish information on the revenues, disbursements, and management of its Health Solidarity Fund, Human Rights Watch said today. Healthcare facilities have made mandatory contributions to this emergency fund for over 25 years. The government should also disburse funds to support healthcare facilities responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, if it has not […]
12, June 2020
Ngarbuh Massacre: Three French Cameroun soldiers charged with murder 0
Three soldiers have been charged with murder after a massacre earlier this year in western Cameroon where security forces are fighting Anglophone separatists. “The three Cameroonian soldiers have been placed in provisional detention in Yaounde military prison,” army spokesman Colonel Cyrille Atonfack Guemo told AFP news agency, adding they had been charged with “murder”. At […]
12, June 2020
Biya and Cameroon: Vox Popoli, Vox Dei 0
When in power, many people, especially dictators, always hold that they are above their people and divine justice. This belief could be seen in the behavior of the country’s president, Paul Biya, who had recklessly ruled his country for almost 38 years. Despite the people’s tears, Mr. Biya has been conducting himself as a monarch […]
11, June 2020
Biyas: First Family Life Crumbling 0
A video posted on social media by Brenda Biya, a chartered member of Cameroon’s wealthy young elite shows that things are really falling apart for the Biya family and that the evil that men do live with them. To be sure, the video reveals that those among President Biya’s inner circle and family have enjoyed […]
11, June 2020
WHO warns coronavirus pandemic accelerating in Africa 0
The speed the new coronavirus jumped from 100,000 to 200,000 confirmed cases in Africa shows just how quickly the pandemic is accelerating on the continent, the World Health Organization said Thursday. According to an AFP tally, Africa topped the 200,000 mark on Tuesday. “It took 98 days to reach the first 100,000 cases, and only […]
11, June 2020
Risk of Mass Atrocities in Cameroon 0
Civilians in Cameroon’s Anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions are at immediate risk of mass atrocities in a political crisis that emerged from the government’s real and perceived marginalization of Anglophone linguistic and cultural rights and identity. Cameroon currently ranks number nine of countries at risk of mass killing in the Simon-Skjodt Center’s Statistical Risk Assessment. The […]
11, June 2020
The role of Institutional change in reviving Cameroon’s economy 0
Since late 2016, the Republic of Cameroon has been going through a devastating armed conflict that has worsened what was already a fledgling economy. Historically, this civil strife can be traced to constitutional crisis in the governance process of the entire nation (Konings & Nyamnjoh1997). The blatant disregard for the culture, traditions and customs of […]
11, June 2020
“Wazizi was neither charged nor tried. He died for being a journalist” 0
Without free speech, there is no liberty. It is the duty of the mentally autonomous to demand and defend freedom of speech and expression. With this duty comes the realisation that it is also about speech they disagree with. Last week’s confirmation from the government of the Cameroons that Samuel Wazizi, a journalist, with a […]
13, June 2020
Ambazonia: Bui County reports conflict amid Interim Gov’t’s account of massacre 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
Interim Government of Ambazonia Statement on the Massacre In Mbokam, BUI COUNTY Last night, the regime in Yaoundé ordered its forces to disconnect internet services and power supplies from Bui County. Earlier today, 12 June 2020, French Cameroun’s military entered the village of Mbokam, Bui County, Southern Cameroons, through Koutaba and Jakiri. The Interim Government […]