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26, February 2020
Ambazonia Crisis: Biya 1, Macron 0 0
Cameroon on Monday opposed French President Emmanuel Macron’s remarks over a separatist crisis in the country’s English-speaking regions. Cameroonian President Paul Biya “is accountable for his actions to the sole sovereign Cameroonian people and not to a foreign leader, even from a friendly country,” Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, secretary general of the Cameroon presidency, said in […]
26, February 2020
Tensions surround post-Brexit trade negotiations 0
As they rubber-stamped the bloc’s 46-page negotiating document, general affairs ministers from the 27-nation EU used words such as complicated, difficult, and tough with respect to the forthcoming talks aimed at trying to reach a free trade deal with the UK. Michel Barnier was referring to a claim made on a number of occasions by […]
26, February 2020
France confirms two new cases of coronavirus, one returning from Italy 0
France’s top health official on Tuesday confirmed two new cases of coronavirus, adding that neither patient was in serious condition. The first new case is a young Chinese woman who recently returned from China and is now hospitalised in Paris, said Jérôme Salomon, the head of France’s national health agency. The other patient, a male, […]
25, February 2020
The Cameroonian author who was imprisoned for his e-book “The Banana Republic’s Natural beauty: Chantal Biya, from the street to the palace” 0
When an Amnesty International delegation visited Cameroon in August 2010, they identified that circumstances at prisons were appalling. At New Bell prison where Cameroonian creator Bertrand Zepherin Teyou was held, the scenario was not distinct. Officially intended to accommodate 700 persons, the New Bell prison in Douala experienced more than 2,453 detainees in August 2010. […]
25, February 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Nigeria’s Cross River State hosting 36,000 Ambazonian refugees 0
The Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) on Monday said that the state was currently hosting 36,044 Cameroonian refugees in its settlements across the state. Mr Princewill Ayim, Director General of SEMA in Cross River, disclosed this in an Interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar. Ayim said the refugees were currently […]
25, February 2020
Southern Cameroons: President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, top aides urges separation solution to French Cameroun-Ambazonia conflict 0
The leader of the people of Southern Cameroons, Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides have renewed the call for an independent state of Ambazonia some few days after one of the Southern Cameroons frontline figures, Wilfred Tassang attempted to drag the Federal Republic of Ambazonia into the internal affairs of French Cameroun by addressing […]
25, February 2020
Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president ousted during Arab Spring, dies at 91 0
Egypt’s ousted former president Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 91, state television said on Tuesday, weeks after undergoing surgery. The former Egyptian strongman was under house arrest since he was ousted on February 11, 2011 after three decades in power. Mubarak suffered from health problems following his ouster and arrest, and his […]
25, February 2020
Southern Cameroons Massacre: Yaounde says Biya is accountable to the people of Cameroon not French President Macron 0
The Minister of State, Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic has issued a statement to protest against the claims of a Cameroonian activist Calibri Calibro and against the revelations of French President, Emmanuel Macron. In the empty communique, the Minister of State, Secretary General at the Presidency, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, rejected the statements […]
25, February 2020
US presidential candidate questions $750 billion US military budget and $1 trillion tax cut for the rich 0
US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has criticized the US government for its massive military spending and tax breaks for wealthy individuals and corporations while eliminating social benefits for low-income and middle class families. Sanders on Monday proposed spending $1.5 trillion over 10 years to create a universal child care and early education system, to be […]
26, February 2020
Macron-Biya Warning: Paris is generally supportive of the regime, while Washington is believed to want to apply sanctions 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
Emmanuel Macron has warned Cameroon President Paul Biya that he will “put pressure” on him following what he called “intolerable human rights violations”. The French President was speaking after the massacre of 23 people on 14 February. “I will call next week President (of Cameroon) Paul Biya and we will put maximum pressure on him […]