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22, February 2020
Ryanair CEO calls for profiling of Muslims, sparks outrage 0
Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O’Leary has sparked outrage after he called for the profiling of Muslim men at airports, claiming that terrorists are “generally of a Muslim persuasion”. Muslim men should be profiled and face further checks at airports because “that is where the threat is coming from,” the controversial CEO of Europe’s largest low-cost […]
21, February 2020
South Sudan rebel leader to be appointed vice president 0
South Sudan President Salva Kiir will on Friday formally appoint rebel leader Riek Machar as vice president, ahead of a swearing-in ceremony on Saturday, the information minister said. Kiir had initially said his longtime rival would be sworn-in on Friday, after the two men finally agreed to form a long-delayed unity government — a crucial […]
21, February 2020
Ngarbuh Massacre: Revenge, blunder, or manipulation? 0
The Cameroon defence ministry “formally denies the false allegations” about the army’s role in the massacre of 22 civilians in Donga-Mantung, insisting that it was an “unfortunate accident” following an exchange of fire between security forces and secessionist rebels. Controversy flared in Cameroon after the announcement of the massacre of at least 22 people in […]
21, February 2020
Biya Francophone regime silence causes concern 0
Cameroon government officials are quietly relieved that, during its recent condemnation of the killings at Ngarbuh, the United States administration made no commitment to eventual US recognition of an independent state of Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia. Less pleasing in the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo government eyes is the fact that the United States government has asked for […]
21, February 2020
Ireland: Prime Minister Leo Varadkar resigns after inconclusive election result 0
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar resigned on Thursday, but stayed on as interim leader while the country’s three main parties battle out coalition talks after an inconclusive election. Varadkar tendered his resignation as taoiseach, or premier, to President Michael Higgins after the first sitting of Ireland’s lower house of parliament since an 8 February election […]
21, February 2020
Coronavirus: Spread slows in China, but deaths abroad increase 0
China on Thursday touted a big drop in new virus infections as proof its epidemic control efforts are working, but the toll grew abroad with deaths in Japan and South Korea. Fatalities in China hit 2,118 as 114 more people died, but health officials reported the lowest number of new cases in nearly a month, […]
21, February 2020
French Cameroun: Boko Haram Raids Displace Thousands More 0
New Boko Haram attacks have displaced more than 3,000 people along Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria in the past three months. Authorities say the Nigerian Islamist militants torched houses, abducted, raped and looted, creating panic among villagers. Twenty-seven-year-old Cameroonian Alidda Mannodi is getting help from the Association of Muslim Women in the northern town of […]
20, February 2020
South Sudan’s president, opposition leader agree to form unity government 0
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and ex-vice president and opposition leader Riek Machar agreed Thursday to form a unity government on Saturday, a long-delayed step towards ending six years of war. “We have agreed to form the government in two days on 22nd February. We are still discussing on other things and I am hopeful […]
20, February 2020
“Cameroon needs a bail-out. Not an economic bail-out. The country is crumbling” Dr Joachim Arrey 0
“Cameroon needs a bail-out. Not an economic bail-out. The country is crumbling, the world should stop playing spectator to an insidious genocide that is playing out in the country’s two English-speaking regions,” Dr. Joachim Arrey in an interview with the Cameroon Concord News Group Editor-in-Chief, Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai. Cameroon Concord News: We are always happy […]
22, February 2020
France begins shutting down oldest nuclear plant 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, News
French state-owned energy giant EDF on Saturday began shutting down the country’s oldest nuclear power plant after 43 years in operation. EDF said it had disconnected one of two reactors at Fessenheim, along the Rhine near France’s eastern border with Germany and Switzerland, at 2:00 am (0100 GMT) in the first stage of the complete […]