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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 […]
20, February 2020
Commonwealth Secretary-General statement on Ngarbuh Massacre 0
The Commonwealth Secretary-General has issued the following statement in response to an attack on a village in north-west Cameroon on 14 February which reportedly left 23 people dead, the majority of them children. Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland said: “I strongly condemn the recent killings of civilians, including women and children in the North-West of Cameroon […]
20, February 2020
Ngarbuh Massacre: UN calls for respect of international law 0
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, released his statement on 17 February, saying that he is “deeply concerned over reports about the killing of civilians, including children, in an attack on the village of Ngarbuh”. A day later, the spokesperson of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights equally decried the killings […]
20, February 2020
Chinese Foreign Minister says virus control efforts ‘are working’ 0
China’s efforts to control the deadly outbreak of a new coronavirus “are working”, Beijing’s top diplomat said Thursday, attributing an easing in new cases to his country’s “forceful action” against the illness. Speaking in Laos after talks with peers from the 10 Southeast Asian (ASEAN) countries, Wangi Yi said the outbreak was “controllable and curable” […]
20, February 2020
Germany: Suspected gunman found dead at home after killing spree 0
A man suspected of fatally shooting nine people in the southwestern German city of Hanau was found dead at his home hours after the attacks in and outside two shisha bars, police said on Thursday. Another body was discovered at the home of the man in Hanau, a city east of the German financial hub […]
21, February 2020
Biya Francophone regime silence causes concern 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
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 […]