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13, October 2018
As conflict intensifies in Yaounde, thousands of Southern Cameroonians flee 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
As conflict intensifies in Cameroon thousands of civilians are being forcibly displaced from their homes. Violence between state forces and separatists has displaced more than 246,000 people within the Southwest region, while at least 26,000 have fled to Nigeria. The population is preparing for further violence following the outcome of the October 7 presidential election. […]
13, October 2018
Yaoundé: Critics Denounce Presidential Polls amid Violence against Southern Cameroonians 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
African news outlets reported on Friday that dissidents in Cameroon are petitioning the country’s elections management body to annul the October 7 presidential election, citing “massive fraud” in favor of President Paul Biya. The election occurred as Biya’s government continues a campaign to eradicate the English language from public life, particularly targeting the English-speaking region […]
12, October 2018
Southern Cameroons: Killings continue as Francophones await presidential election results 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Cameroon is the great unspoken African tragedy-in-the-making. Its president, Paul Biya, has been in power since 1982. If ever a country needed presidential term limits it is this one. Mr Biya is now the second longest serving non-monarchic head of state in the world. If, as expected, he manoeuvres his way through ongoing post-election turmoil […]
12, October 2018
Pope Francis accepts Washington archbishop’s resignation amid sex abuse scandal 0
by soter • Headline News, Religion, World
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl as archbishop of Washington, D.C., the Vatican said on Friday, making him one of the most senior Catholic figures to step down in a worldwide sexual abuse crisis. Wuerl, 77, who was bishop of Pittsburgh between 1988 and 2006, has been under scrutiny over his […]
12, October 2018
October 7: Court Receives Petitions to Annul Presidential Vote 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
Cameroon’s highest court received petitions from two voters who alleged irregularities in the Oct. 7 presidential polls to annul the election. The two electors, Bertin Kisob and Rigobert Minhaba Aminou, filed 15 complaints in their bid to have the vote cancelled, Maka Eyoum Longin, registrar-in-chief of the Constitutional Council, told reporters Wednesday in the capital, […]
12, October 2018
Yaounde: President-Elect to defend election ‘victory’ 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
The leader of the opposition Cameroon Renaissance Movement’s (CRM), Prof Maurice Kamto, has vowed to go to court to defend his ‘victory’ in Sunday’s presidential election. Prof Kamto’s spokesman Olivier Bibou Nissack told a press conference at the Nlongkak party headquarter in Yaoundé on Wednesday that they would spare no effort in defending their victory. […]
12, October 2018
Yaounde is on the brink of a political crisis 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
Cameroon is on the brink of a political crisis after the government branded a leading opposition politician an “outlaw” for declaring victory in Sunday’s presidential elections. President Paul Biya is widely expected to win re-election to a seventh term when results are certified in the next two weeks, but a declaration of victory from Maurice […]
12, October 2018
Cameroon’s Presidential Polls: Nation awaiting election results 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
Cameroon continues to wait for results of Sunday’s presidential election in which Africa’s oldest leader is widely expected to win. Members of the Constitutional Council on Wednesday deliberated on incoming election results and heard complaints from lawyers for opposition parties. While opposition leader Maurice Kamto has claimed victory, only the council can legally announce the winner. Official […]
11, October 2018
Presidential Poll in Cameroun and the Southern Cameroons Struggle 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
Last Sunday 7 October 2018, citizens of“République du Cameroun” went to the polls to elect their President and, by every indication, the results are already known. Statements have been made about the outcomes, exit polls, claims and counterclaims, the most notable of which is Prof. Maurice Kamto’s claim of victory in the polls. Irrespective of […]
13, October 2018
Biya regime ‘must prove Ambazonian leaders are alive’ 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Lawyers in Cameroon defending leaders of a movement to create a separate state of Ambazonia have called on the government to produce evidence that their clients are still alive. Many English-speaking people complain of being treated like second-class citizens in Cameroon. Barrister Christopher Ndong was representing his clients at a hearing at the Yaounde Appeals […]