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22, January 2020
Yaounde: Soldiers go on trial over shooting of women and children 0
The trial of seven Cameroonian soldiers accused of participating in the killing of two women and two children has begun behind closed doors, two judicial sources said on Tuesday, after a video of the incident sparked an international outcry. The soldiers were arrested after the video surfaced on social media in July 2018. The shaky […]
22, January 2020
Boko Haram beheads Christian leader in Nigeria 0
Boko Haram insurgents beheaded a Christian leader in their captivity on Monday, according to Ahmad Salkida, a Nigerian journalist closely covering the crisis in Nigeria and across the Lake Chad region. The journalist in a tweet said Reverend Lawan Andimi along with a soldier were were killed by the the terrorists at the same time. […]
22, January 2020
Bikutsi: Cameroon’s hyper-erotic dance giving women an artistic ‘voice’ 0
Bikutsi, a dance celebrating sexuality and relationships, has taken centre stage across Cameroon in the past three decades. The form arose in patriarchal communities where women were forbidden “to raise their voices in public”, Cameroonian ethnomusicologist Jean Maurice Noah wrote in his book on the subject. Olivia Beyene, Bikutsi singer said: “That’s the soppy, frilly […]
22, January 2020
58 years of annoying Southern Cameroonians: Fako CPDM raises FCFA 22 Million for campaigns 0
Aspirants for the four National Assembly seats in Fako Division, plus those aspiring to be Mayors, Councillors and other top notches of the ruling CPDM party, have raised the sum of FCFA 22 million for campaigns for the February 9 elections. The money was raised on Tuesday, January 14, in Limbe, during a preparatory and […]
22, January 2020
Southern Cameroons War: Government, Separatists Indicted For Killings, Torture, Kidnappings 0
“Human Rights Watch, HRW, has released its 2020 report on the human rights barometer on Cameroon, in which it has indicted Cameroon Government forces for killings, destruction of property, burning of villages, torture, alongside other human rights violations.” The report also indicted Separatist fighters in the Anglophone Regions for kidnappings, torture, and occupation of schools. […]
21, January 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Native doctors wanted 0
There is an acute shortage of native doctors today in the country’s two English-speaking regions of the country due to the ongoing civil war that is tearing the country apart. Most native doctors, who used to say they could even prevent thunder from striking, have all vanished ever since the civil war broke out. Native […]
21, January 2020
Battle For Ambazonia: SDF in turmoil as local elections approach 0
The opposition Social Democratic Front (SDF), destabilised by the mass exodus of its militants, most of whom have become the target of separatist militias, is divided over its participation in the local elections of 9 February. With close to 40 members held hostage and three cadres’ residences torched, the SDF is suffering the full brunt […]
21, January 2020
Climate change to take centre stage at Davos 0
The starkly opposed visions of US President Donald Trump and Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg on climate change will clash in Davos on Tuesday as the World Economic Forum tries to face up to the perils of global warming on its 50th meeting. The four-day gathering of the world’s top political and business leaders in […]
21, January 2020
Biya to stay away from African Cup of Nations Final 0
At the end of his visit last week to Yaoundé, Ahmad Ahmad, the president of the African Football Confederation (CAF) reassured the authorities that the 2021 African Cup of Nations will indeed take place in Cameroon. Unlike the previous edition which was staged from June to July 2019 in Egypt, the tournament in Cameroon will […]
22, January 2020
French Cameroun: Opposition party says country will not have free and fair elections 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
There are concerns about the fairness of Cameroon’s legislative and municipal elections to be held next month amid a security crisis in the country’s English-speaking northwestern and southwestern regions, Turkey-based Anadolu Agency reported. Njong Evaristus Ndim, a member of the main opposition Social Democratic Front, told the news agency that the February 9 vote would […]