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11, June 2020
Nobel laureate Mukwege quits DR Congo Covid-19 team, blasts govt response 0
Nobel winner Denis Mukwege on Wednesday said he had resigned as head of a coronavirus taskforce in an eastern province of DR Congo, blaming organisational problems, outpaced strategy and slow testing. Mukwege, a DR Congo gynaecologist who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for his work against sexual violence in war, was appointed on […]
11, June 2020
Journalist Wazizi’s death in custody shines light on Cameroon’s war on media 0
In August 2019, Journalist Samuel Wazizi was arrested by the Cameroonian government and held without charge. More than 10 months after the arrest, the military confirmed Wazizi had died in their custody. Amid attacks, arrests and kidnappings of journalists, lawyers for the late Wazizi applied for the government to release his body. On 9 June, […]
11, June 2020
Beaten and hosed, Kah Walla is fighting to unseat the world’s most vicious dictator 0
Edith Kahbang Walla’s presidential ambitions began with a confrontation. It was 2010, and the opposition Social Democratic Front (SDF) was planning to field its longtime chairperson for the third time in the following year’s election against President Paul Biya. Walla challenged her party leader to a primary. When he refused, she quit. A decade later, […]
10, June 2020
For many African Americans, nothing has changed since civil rights movement 0
For three generations, black Americans have learned the same cautionary tale about the police. And many, speaking on the fringes of George Floyd’s memorial ceremonies, say that nothing has changed in the US since the mid-20th century struggle for civil rights. “Some things have changed, but not enough has changed,” Norman Mitchell told AFP during […]
10, June 2020
US: New York lawmakers vote to scrap police discipline secrecy law 0
New York lawmakers voted on Tuesday to repeal a decades-old law that shields police officers’ disciplinary records from the public. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said he will sign the bill into law amid nationwide protests against police brutality. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted that he will sign the bill into law this […]
10, June 2020
Transparency, Accountability Needed for journalist ‘Wazizi’ Case 0
Cameroon’s government should ensure that the investigation into a journalist’s enforced disappearance and death in military custody is independent, effective, thorough, and impartial, four Cameroonian and six international organizations said today. United Nations (UN) Security Council members should urge accountability for the death of the journalist, Samuel Ajiekah Abuwe, known as Wazizi, when they are […]
10, June 2020
Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Agree to Demarcate Border after Skirmishes 0
Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea have agreed to jointly map out a disputed border area after skirmishes between their troops left several wounded and property destroyed. Officials from the two countries are asking hundreds of traders and farmers who relocated because of the clashes to return to the disputed area but, some are reluctant. Officials from […]
10, June 2020
Cameroon tops list of world’s most neglected displacement crises 0
Africa is home to nine of ten of the world’s most neglected crises and for a second year running Cameroon topped the list as the most neglected on the planet in 2019. Three separate emergencies faced the corrupt African nation: an exacerbation of Boko Haram attacks in the north, a violent conflict in the English-speaking […]
9, June 2020
At George Floyd’s funeral: Joe Biden calls for racial justice 0
George Floyd’s funeral took place on Tuesday in Houston, two weeks after his death while being held by police in a Minneapolis street, as more anti-racism rallies inspired by his treatment were set to take place in the United States and Europe. George Floyd, whose death has sparked a global protest movement, is to be […]
11, June 2020
Nigeria: Armed gangs kill dozens in string of attacks 0
by soter • Headline News, News, Nigeria
Armed gangs killed 57 people in a string of attacks on villages in northwest Nigeria, residents said on Wednesday, as security forces struggle to curb violence in the region. Roughly 150 gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on residents before looting shops and stealing cattle in a series of assaults on Tuesday in six remote communities […]