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13, March 2020
Southern Cameroons War: Disturbing news out of Ground Zero 0
On January 30, armed separatists kidnapped Marie (not her real name), a 19-year-old secondary school student, in Buea, in Cameroon’s Anglophone South-West region. Three days later, they chopped her finger off with a machete. The reason? Marie wanted to go to school. Since 2017, armed separatist groups have enforced a boycott of education in the […]
13, March 2020
WHO warns Europe is coronavirus ‘epicentre’ as outbreak continues to spread 0
The World Health Organisation warned Friday that Europe was now the “epicentre” for the global coronavirus pandemic and reporting more daily cases than China did at the height of its outbreak. This statement came as the outbreak continued to spread across the world, provoking further closures and travel bans in an attempt to contain it, […]
13, March 2020
French Cameroun: Maurice Kamto escapes unscathed after assassination attempt 0
The leader of the Cameroonian Renaissance Movement Prof Maurice Kamto has escaped an assassination attempt. In a video posted on Facebook and shared by the party spokesperson, Sosthène Médard Lipot, a man in his forties was seen being pinched by a small group of MRC supporters in the presence of the party’s Vice Chairman Alain […]
13, March 2020
Ivory Coast: Prime Minister named ruling party’s presidential candidate 0
Ivory Coast’s ruling party has named the prime minister as its candidate for the October presidential poll, after President Alassane Ouattara ended months of speculation and said he would not seek a controversial third term. The choice of Amadou Gon Coulibaly, a close friend and confidant of the president, comes ahead of a challenging election […]
13, March 2020
Australian minister who met with Ivanka Trump has coronavirus 0
A senior Australian politician tested positive for the new coronavirus and entered hospital quarantine Friday, days after returning from Washington where he met Ivanka Trump and US Attorney General William Barr. Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton, was in the United States last week for a meeting with members of the FiveEyes intelligence alliance — Australia, […]
13, March 2020
US carries out retaliatory air strikes in Iraq against Iran-backed militia 0
The United States waged a series of precision air strikes on Thursday against an Iran-backed militia in Iraq that it blamed for a major rocket attack a day earlier that killed two American troops and a 26-year-old British soldier. The U.S. strikes appeared limited in scope and narrowly tailored, targeting five weapons storage facilities used […]
13, March 2020
Canadian PM Trudeau in two-week isolation after wife tests positive for coronavirus 0
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in isolation for two weeks after his wife, Sophie, tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, and the outbreak prompted the province of Ontario to shutter schools to limit the spread. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau recently returned from London and experienced flu-like symptoms, so she was tested for the coronavirus, […]
13, March 2020
Southern Cameroons Massacre: UN Secretary General Silent As Minister Atanga Nji Trashed Chased Out OCHA Official 0
United Nations Secretary General Guterres has no comment on, and have refused to answer on, Cameroon’s expulsion and now public trashing of their own UN OCHA officials in Bamenda, Andrew Jack Pendleton. Biya’s minister Atanga Nji has publicly denounced this UN official for his mild comments on the government’s slaughter of civilians at Ngarbuh. But […]
13, March 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: After a week of tensions, Macron defuses the situation with Biya 0
Macron and Biya put aside their differences to talk about resolving violence in Cameroon. The presidents of France and Cameroon “agreed on the need for an impartial inquiry” into the violence perpetrated in Cameroon’s Northwest Province during a phone conversation between the two heads of state on Sunday, 1 March. Emmanuel Macron’s controversial remarks that […]
13, March 2020
Cameroonian becomes Congo Kinshasa’s second coronavirus patient 0
by soter • Headline News, Health, Life
Democratic Republic of Congo Health authorities confirm that a second person has tested positive for coronavirus in the country, and is being treated in hospital: The patient is a 46-year-old Cameroonian national who lives in DR Congo with this family. He returned to the country from France on 8 March, and did not show symptoms […]