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27, September 2019
US: Trump abused office, forced White House to cover it up 0
The whistleblower complaint at the heart of the burgeoning controversy over President Donald Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president claims not only that Trump misused his office for personal gain and endangered national security, but that unidentified White House officials tried to keep it a secret even within the government. In seven stark, carefully worded […]
26, September 2019
Genocide Warnings for Biya and French Cameroun 0
Concerned with the increasing violence and repression in Cameroon the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michele Bachelet visited the country last May to meet with government ministers, opposition leaders, and Cameroon’s President Biya who assured full cooperation with the UN on issues of Human Rights. To summarize the situation: 20% of the French speaking country […]
26, September 2019
French Cameroun: Discussing Maurice Kamto Lands Teacher in Jail 0
Teachers in open societies around the world push their students to think critically about current events. But those in Cameroon might be thinking twice after one of them was arrested for doing just that. On September 13, Fondang Mesaack Nathan, an English teacher at the high school in Avebe-Esse, a village in Cameroon’s South region, […]
26, September 2019
Southern Cameroon’s Dialogue: A Work in Progress 0
On 10 September, President Paul Biya proposed a national dialogue aimed at addressing the two-year conflict between his government and Anglophone separatists that has laid waste to Cameroon’s North West and South West regions. The dialogue could be an opportunity for his government and Anglophone leaders to table potential solutions. As proposed, however, it will […]
26, September 2019
The World Mourns A State’s Man: Chirac opposed war in Iraq 0
Jacques Chirac, who died on Thursday, infuriated Washington by refusing to join the US-led coalition in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a landmark decision which badly hurt Paris-Washington relations. Chief UN inspector Hans Blix had submitted a report on Iraq’s attempts to develop weapons of mass destruction and suggested that more inspections were needed. […]
26, September 2019
From courtship to courtroom: Neymar and Barca at daggers-drawn positions 0
After a summer of courtship, with Barcelona wooing Neymar to come back, the Brazilian star and his former club have finally agreed a date — but in court rather than on the pitch. Both sides will meet at a court in the Barcelona suburbs on Friday for a multi-million-euro legal battle over a contract dispute. […]
26, September 2019
Former French president Jacques Chirac dies at 86 0
Former French president Jacques Chirac, who led France from 1995 to 2007, died on Thursday morning at the age of 86, his son-in-law told Reuters. “He passed away peacefully this morning surrounded by his loved ones,” his son-in-law Frederic Salat-Baroux said. The head of the lower house of the French parliament interrupted a sitting of […]
26, September 2019
Nigeria: Daesh kills 14 soldiers, aid worker in northeast 0
The Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has killed more than a dozen Nigerian people, including military forces and an aid worker, in the country’s volatile northeastern region. The terrorists killed 14 Nigerian soldiers in attacks in the northeast state of Borno on Wednesday. The fatalities took place when the Takfiris ambushed soldiers in the state following […]
26, September 2019
Southern Cameroons on tenterhooks ahead of peace talks 0
The mood in English-speaking Cameroon is a mix of anxiety, resignation and fatigue as the clock ticks. On September 30, the government will start hosting a national “dialogue” on the future of the anglophone territories, where separatist violence and a government crackdown have cost thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands to flee. The […]
27, September 2019
Ambazonia leaders Shun Biya’s ‘National Dialogue’ 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
Next week, Cameroon’s government will host what it calls a national dialogue on the separatist crisis in its Northwest and Southwest regions. However, U.S.- and Europe-based separatist leaders invited to the talks say they will not take part in any dialogue unless it is held outside Cameroon with non-Cameroonians as mediators. The government has stated […]