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27, October 2019
Mimi Mefo says prejudice against Africans may have had role in Australian visa refusal 0
A Cameroonian journalist who was denied a visa for Australia because the government believed she might not leave has questioned if they made assumptions about her because she is African. Mimi Mefo, an award-winning journalist who is currently based in Berlin and working for Deutsche Welle, was booked to appear at the Integrity 20 conference […]
26, October 2019
Middle East: Syria army reaches border area, deploys around Turkish zone 0
Syrian troops reached a key area near Turkey’s border Saturday after sending further reinforcements to the region, in what a war monitor said was its largest deployment there in years. Syrian regime forces entered the provincial borders of the town of Ras al-Ain, state news agency SANA said. The regime forces entered the area, which […]
26, October 2019
Italy: Protesters in Rome call for mayor to resign 0
Hundreds of people marched along the Tiber River on Saturday to demand Rome mayor Virginia Raggi resign over the state of the Italian capital. “Raggi is turning the city into somewhere to run away from, instead of a city where people can live with dignity, work and build their future,” the Tutti per Rome (Everyone […]
26, October 2019
Zimbabweans stage rally calling end to ‘evil’ US, EU sanctions 0
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Zimbabwe’s capital, calling on the United States and European Union to lift the “evil” sanctions they have imposed on the country’s president and several other top officials for almost two decades. The demonstrators rallied at Harare’s Robert Mugabe Square on Friday before proceeding towards the National Sports […]
26, October 2019
Biya regime rules out new dialogue to end Southern Cameroons crisis 0
The Biya regime has said it will not organize another dialogue to end separatist crisis in the English-speaking regions of the country. “We do not foresee an inclusive dialogue than the historic one which has just taken place,” communication minister and government spokesman Emmanuel Rene Sadi told state media on Friday night. His reaction came […]
26, October 2019
Douala: Over 200 rescued on sinking vessel 0
The Cameroon marine authority said Friday it has rescued over 200 passengers from their capsizing vessel in the Atlantic Ocean. The rescued passengers mainly of African nationalities were rescued and brought at Cameroon air force base in Douala, Cameroon’s commercial capital. Cameroon marine was still investigating what caused the vessel to capsize but passengers told […]
26, October 2019
Indomitable Lions: Tagueu playing again after heart ailment 0
The 25-year-old returned to the field on Sunday after battling a heart condition that ruled him out of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Cameroon forward Joel Tagueu has described his return to football as a victory after recovering from a heart ailment. The Cruzeiro attacker made his first appearance in over five months as […]
26, October 2019
Another Bible translator murdered in his home as Southern Cameroons war rages on 0
A second Bible translator has been killed by suspected Fulani extremists in the civil war-ridden Anglophone region in southern Cameroon this week, a ministry source has confirmed. Bible translator Benjamin Tem was murdered in his home in the Wum region Sunday night, reports Efi Tembon, a Cameroonian activist who heads a ministry called Oasis Network […]
26, October 2019
French FM expresses support for peace efforts in Southern Cameroons 0
French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian on Wednesday expressed support for ongoing peace efforts in Cameroon’s troubled English-speaking regions of Northwest and Southwest. “This visit is coming at a time when peace and reconciliation are gaining ground in Cameroon. We also wish to accompany Cameroon in its efforts that have been […]
27, October 2019
Southern Cameroon refugees: Displaced from home, despised abroad 0
by soter • Editorial, Headline News
Since the struggle for equality and justice by the people of Southern Cameroon against the Francophone north began, leading to an almost endless conflict between separatists from the Anglophone south and government forces, over 500, 000 Cameroonians fleeing from the crisis have been displaced. While some of the displaced have taken refuge in rural areas […]