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20, January 2020
As Brexit nears, UK’s Johnson pushes for deeper trade ties with Africa 0
The United Kingdom is positioning itself to be the ‘investment partner of choice’ for Africa, holding a summit with leaders of 21 African countries on Monday, days before it leaves the European Union (EU). Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, who secured the country’s January 31st departure from the EU trading bloc is determined to enter […]
20, January 2020
US Diplomat’s Remarks Stir Controversy in Cameroon 0
There have been mixed reactions in Cameroon to the meeting between the top U.S. diplomat to Africa, Tibor Nagy, and opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who says he was the rightful winner of the Cameroon’s October 2018 presidential election. Nagy also gave an interview in which he said Cameroonian officials are not doing enough to solve […]
20, January 2020
Anglophone Commander of Cameroon’s Peacekeeping Force in Central Africa fired unjustly 0
Colonel Tabot Samuel Orock was fired unjustly as commander of the Cameroon UN peacekeeping force by the Cameroon Minister of Defense, Joseph Beti Asomo because he has no ‘Godfather’ and also because he is an Anglophone, Cameroon Intelligence Report has gathered from a well-placed source in Yaoundé. The peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic […]
20, January 2020
Nigeria: Four die in oil pipeline fire 0
Four people have been killed and several shops and vehicles burnt after thieves breached a fuel pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, causing an explosion. (Source: AFP)
20, January 2020
Polls to be held amid security crisis in Cameroon 0
Cameroon on Feb. 9 will host double elections, legislative and municipal, despite worrying socio-political crisis and insecurity in the English-speaking northwestern and southwestern regions of the country. Armed separatist groups have been threatening security in this part of the country for more than three years. A few weeks before the legislative and municipal elections, they […]
20, January 2020
Billionaires richer than 60 percent of world’s population 0
The world’s billionaires have doubled in the past decade and are richer than 60 percent of the global population, the charity Oxfam said Monday. It said poor women and girls were at the bottom of the scale, putting in “12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work each and every day,” estimated to be worth at […]
19, January 2020
Three things we learned from the Premier League 0
Liverpool’s march towards the Premier League title gathered pace with a 2-0 win over rivals Manchester United. The battle for top four places was at a standstill after Chelsea, United and Leicester were beaten, while Tottenham and Arsenal had to settle for draws. AFP Sport looks at three things we learned from the English top-flight […]
19, January 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: CPDM politicians promote violence in the run-up to elections 0
As election day approaches and doubts about the holding of the election in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon grow, ruling party (CPDM) officials are now financing terrorist groups to intimidate civilians in the English-speaking parts of the country. According to a source close to the CPDM, the government party that is responsible for the […]
19, January 2020
Makossa: Leg amputee Nguea La Route will never walk and dance again 0
Renowned Cameroonian artist Nguea La Route who had a hip disarticulation operation, meaning they removed her left leg up to and including the hip joint on October 4, 2019, has gotten another amputation on her right leg. The operation took place at the Douala General Hospital on the night of Wednesday, January 15, 2020. Mama […]
21, January 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Senior government official bares his mind 0
by soter • Editorial, Headline News
Radicalized by the government’s use of death squads and arsonists to intimidate Southern Cameroonian fighters, a senior government official on Monday, January 20, 2020, clearly expressed his frustration with the government’s strategy to end the rebellion in the two English-speaking regions of the country. Speaking to the Cameroon Concord News Group Chairman, Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai, […]