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9, November 2019
France: ‘Yellow Vests’ march through Paris as first protest anniversary nears 0
‘Yellow Vests’ protesters took to the streets of Paris on Saturday as the first anniversary since the demonstrations began on November 18 last year approaches. Demonstrators marched under police supervision from Porte de Clichy to Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad, carrying French flags and anti-Macron posters, chanting slogans and playing drums. The Yellow Vest […]
9, November 2019
US: Trump’s top aides implicated in impeachment proceeding 0
US President Donald Trump’s top aides have been implicated in the impeachment looming over his presidency. Latest testimonies show Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and the US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland were involved in the Ukraine scandal at the center of the impeachment inquiry. According […]
9, November 2019
French Cameroun: Biya declares national mourning day for landslide victims 0
Cameroonian President Paul Biya on Friday declared a national day of mourning on Saturday to honor 43 people killed by a landslide in the western city of Bafoussam last week. “Flags will be flown at half-mast throughout the country, as well as at Cameroonian embassies and consular offices abroad,” Biya said in a statement released […]
9, November 2019
Ambazonia villages are burning in the One and Indivisible Cameroon 0
On a plantation in Tiko, in south-west Cameroon, Adeline rubs the gap in her right hand where her index finger used to be. She arrived in the town in July 2018, having fled Ekona, 15 miles away. In that village soldiers terrified civilians by burning houses and shooting indiscriminately as part of a crackdown on militias […]
9, November 2019
IMF Staff Completes Review Mission to Cameroon 0
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Mr. Amadou Sy, visited Yaoundé during October 28—November 8, 2019 to discuss the fifth review of the program supported by the ECF that was approved in June 2017 . At the conclusion of this visit, Mr. Sy issued the following statement: “The IMF team reached staff-level agreement with the […]
9, November 2019
Brazil ex-president da Silva released from jail after court ruling 0
Brazil’s leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva left prison on Friday after a judge ordered his release, startling financial markets and reigniting both ends of the political spectrum with calls for demonstrations in coming days. As he walked out of jail, Lula raised a defiant fist of victory in the air to the […]
9, November 2019
UK: Officer charged with murder of former footballer 0
Deaths in police custody is a long-standing and controversial issue which has once again been placed under the spotlight with the news that the police officer who tasered former premiership footballer Dalian Atkinson in 2016, resulting in Atkinson’s death, will be charged with murder While campaigners will welcome the charges leveled against officers involved, activists […]
9, November 2019
Southern Cameroons guerrilla conflict is bizarrely about colonial language 0
In February the U.S. president cut off his country’s military aid to the central African country of Cameroon because of its appalling human rights record. Sometimes Donald Trump gets it right. In February the U.S. president cut off his country’s military aid to the central African country of Cameroon because of its appalling human rights […]
9, November 2019
How to stop Cameroon collapsing into a full-fledged civil war 0
For 37 years one man has ruled Cameroon, a staggeringly corrupt, oil-rich state in central Africa. President Paul Biya is an old-fashioned autocrat. When democracy swept across Africa after the cold war ended, he called it a “distasteful passing fetish”. Then he realised he would attract less foreign criticism if he quietly intimidated opponents and […]
10, November 2019
Bishop Andrew Nkea issues pastoral letter on recent kidnapping of priests in Mamfe Diocese 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Religion
“Raise not your hand against the Anointed of Yahweh”(1Sam.26:11) (Pastoral Letter to all the Christians and People of Good will in the Diocese of Mamfe about the recent Kidnapping of Priests in Central Ejagham Area, in Mamfe Diocese) My dear People of God, When the Diocese of Mamfe was created on the 9th of February […]