Layouts
30, December 2019
Australia: Sydney fireworks to go ahead despite massive protest petition 0
A petition to cancel Sydney’s famous New Year’s Eve fireworks and use the money to fight bush fires ringing the city has topped 260,000 signatures, but officials say the show will go on. Sydney is spending Aus$6.5 million ($4.5 million) on this year’s fireworks display — funds that the Change.org petition argues would be better […]
29, December 2019
Southern Cameroons Special Status: Ambazonian crowned Miss Cameroun 0
French Cameroun political elites have reportedly started the process of granting the so-called Special Status to the people of Southern Cameroons as Miss North West, Audrey Nabila Monkam was allowed to win the prestigious Miss Cameroun 2020 crown on Saturday. The Miss Cameroun contest has been a French Cameroun private preserve ever since it was […]
29, December 2019
Uzbekistan’s police charge five Cameroonians in 340,000 USD fraud case 0
A preliminary criminal investigation against five Cameroonian citizens in a fraud case worth 340,000 U.S. dollars has been completed, Investigation Department of Uzbek Ministry of Internal Affairs said Saturday. Currently all five Cameroonians are under arrest and charged with fraud and money counterfeiting, the police statement said without giving the names of the accused. Cameroonians […]
29, December 2019
UK: Labour Party divided as it starts soul searching process 0
A group of Labour MPs who lost their seats in the general election have predictably tried to blame Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour leadership for their loss. In a letter to the Observer yesterday, the group blames “cronyism” and “anti-Semitism” for Labour’s worst electoral performance in 85 years. Some have also blamed Brexit. Labour won […]
29, December 2019
An Islamic State Christmas killing of 11 hostages in Nigeria threatens to flare up religious tensions 0
A video released by Islamic State on Dec. 26 which claims to show the killing of 11 Christian hostages in northern Nigeria threatens to spark religious tensions in the country and compounds the political problems of president Muhammadu Buhari. The Islamic State sub-group called Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) said the “beheading” of the hostages was […]
29, December 2019
The Holy Father appoints Bishop Michael Bibi as Apostolic Administrator of Buea Diocese 0
Msgr. Michael Bibi, Auxiliary Bishop of Bamenda has been appointed by the Holy Father Pope Francis as Apostolic Administrator of Buea Diocese. The appointment was made today 28/12/2019 at 12noon Vatican time. By this appointment also, the Holy Father has accepted the resignation of Mgr. Immanuel Bushu as Bishop of Buea. Rt. Rev. Michael Miabesue […]
28, December 2019
US: Trump impeachment trial in Senate stuck in limbo over rules 0
The US Senate remains deadlocked over how to proceed with an impeachment trial against President Donald Trump, more than a week after the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives impeached the Republican president on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, is waiting […]
28, December 2019
Cameroon bishops visit prisons on Christmas, as Church prays for peace 0
Cameroon’s Catholic clergy made a special effort to visit the country’s prisons on Christmas Day. “Christ came to free us from all our prisons,” said Archbishop Samuel Kleda as he addressed inmates in the overcrowded New Bell prison in Douala. The prelate said he wasn’t only referring to the physical prisons where people are clamped […]
28, December 2019
French Cameroun survivors tell of France’s ‘dirty war’ for independence 0
The Cameroonian war of independence was a “dirty war” waged by French colonial troops but it never made headlines and even today goes untold in school history books. The brutal conflict unfolded in Cameroon, which on January 1 marks its 60th anniversary of independence — the first of 17 African countries that became free from […]
30, December 2019
US bombs pro-Iran militant group in Iraq, Syria in retaliation for rocket attack 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
The US has carried out air strikes against a pro-Iran militant group in Iraq, killing 19 fighters, two days after a rocket attack that killed an American civilian contractor. The Pentagon said on Sunday it targeted weapons caches or command and control facilities linked to Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) in Western Iraq, as well as Eastern Syria, in response to […]