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20, May 2020
Southern Cameroons: Concerns increase over Barrister Shufai’s health 0
OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE TEAM OF SISIKU AYUK TABE & THE REST OF SOUTHERN CAMEROONIANS IN DETENTION PRESS RELEASE We are reaching out this May 20th 2020, to the entire defense team of Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and the rest of southern Cameroonian detainees consequential to the […]
20, May 2020
Yaounde: Biya delivers first coronavirus address 0
Cameroon’s 87-year-old President Paul Biya has made a televised address to his people ending more than two months of silence as the central African nation dealt with a burgeoning coronavirus crisis. Biya’s long silence was for supporters a sign of gravitas but for critics one of failure. “Like most countries in the world Cameroon is […]
20, May 2020
UN chief warns Covid-19 could cause poverty, hunger for millions in Africa 0
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that millions of people could be pushed into extreme poverty in Africa due to the coronavirus pandemic and called for “global solidarity” with the continent. “The pandemic threatens African progress. It will aggravate long-standing inequalities and heighten hunger, malnutrition and vulnerability to disease,” Guterres said in a statement accompanying a […]
20, May 2020
How Roger Milla confounded the sceptics 0
When Cameroon’s president demanded a soon-to-be 38-year-old striker’s inclusion in the World Cup squad it was seen as a new low for African football. The game on the continent had long been dogged by the fatuous interventions of powerful politicians, but messing with selection for the sport’s global showpiece event seemed harebrained in the extreme. […]
20, May 2020
Confirmed COVID-19 cases are rapidly increasing in Cameroon, Biya revealing some of his movements 0
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, many national leaders have become more present in their citizens’ lives. They announce new emergency measures, hold regular press briefings and attempt to reassure the population. Not so in Cameroon. President Paul Biya only addressed the public since the first confirmed coronavirus case in early March yesterday […]
19, May 2020
Defections rob France’s Macron party of parliamentary majority 0
Left-leaning lawmakers defected Tuesday to rob President Emmanuel Macron’s party of its outright majority in France’s National Assembly in a symbolic but non-paralyzing setback for the embattled reformist leader. Seventeen members of Macron’s La Republique En Marche (LREM) party said they had formed a new political grouping named “Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity” (EDS) to pursue greener […]
19, May 2020
Cameroon Doctors Ask for Protection as Attacks by COVID Carriers Increase 0
Medical staff in Cameroon are asking for additional security at hospitals following a series of attacks by people upset that they or their loved ones were diagnosed with the coronavirus. Cameroon so far has 3,300 confirmed cases of the virus with 147 deaths. Gervais Gabriel Atedjoe, secretary general of Cameroon’s National Medical Council, said attacks […]
19, May 2020
Lesotho’s PM resigns amid mounting pressure following ex-wife’s murder 0
Lesotho’s beleaguered prime minister, Thomas Thabane, finally resigned on Tuesday, ending a months-long crisis that engulfed the kingdom after he was accused of having a part in his ex-wife’s murder. “I come before you today to announce that the work that you assigned me may not be over but the time to retire from the […]
19, May 2020
Yaounde: National Human Rights Commission Chairman, Chemuta Divine Banda, Dies At 73 0
Dr. Chemuta Divine Banda, Chairman of Cameroon’s National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms has died in Yaoundé Monday, May 18, 2020. The human rights vanguard is said to have died at “Le Jourdain”, a clinic in the country’s capital Yaoundé where he was receiving medical attention. Born on December 26, 1946, Dr. Chemuta Divine […]
21, May 2020
Ambazonia: Vice President Yerima speaks of the coronavirus, Barrister Shufai’s health and the killing of the Mamfe mayor 0
by soter • Editorial, Headline News
The exiled leader of the people of Southern Cameroons Vice President Dabney Yerima has told the Voice newspaper in Yaounde that the government of La Republique du Cameroun will bear full responsibility for any negative aftermath if coronavirus claims the life of any Ambazonian in their detention facilities. Below is the full conversation the Ambazonian […]