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29, August 2019
Ambazonia crisis takes toll on professionals 0
A three-week lockdown on Cameroon’s two Anglophone regions is in effect. Thousands have fled the troubled regions, some permanently to Francophone provinces. Rebels fighting for the independence of Cameroon’s two Anglophone regions called the lockdown to protest against the life sentences handed down to ten of their leaders last week. Schools and shops are closed. […]
29, August 2019
S. Cameroons Crisis: Bodies dumped in streets as Ambazonians prepare for lockdown 0
The crisis in Southern Cameroons is in the midst of some seriously dangerous path. Ever since the Yaoundé Military Tribunal sentenced the Ambazonia leaders to life in prison, more than 54 people have been killed in several rural localities according to concerned NGOs and things could get much, much worse in the days ahead. Cameroon […]
29, August 2019
US: Gillibrand bows out of 2020 White House race 0
US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who ran a presidential campaign centered on advocacy for women, ended her bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination on Wednesday after failing to gain traction in opinion polls or qualify for next month’s debate. The move did not come as a surprise. Gillibrand, 52, languished below 1 percent in polls and […]
29, August 2019
Medical Tourism: Biya regime sending jailed CPDM politicians abroad,Inoni is next on the list 0
The Biya regime has evacuated a cream of jailed CPDM politicians including the former general manager of the Cameroon Airlines Yves Michele Fotso abroad for treatment reneging on a promise to end medical tourism Mr Biya made during the last presidential poll won by Prof Maurice Kamto. The Yaounde regime is spending hundreds of millions […]
28, August 2019
What We’re Watching: Israel and Iran, Clashes in Southern Cameroons and Brexit Battles 0
Iran-Israel Proxy Flare-Up – On Sunday, Israel confirmed it bombed an Iran-backed militia group in Syria that it says was preparing to launch “killer drones” against Israeli targets. Israel is also thought to be behind attacks on Iranian-allied groups in Lebanon and Iraq, and hits on Hamas targets in Gaza. The governments of Iraq and Lebanon condemned the […]
28, August 2019
A new surge of people fleeing Southern Cameroons 0
Separatist factions demanding the release of their leaders have begun locking down the north-west and south-west regions and urging a boycott of a ‘back to school’ campaign supported by the Francophone-led state and civil society groups. Thousands of people have already fled their homes in cities like Bamenda, Buea and Kumba – at the epicenter […]
28, August 2019
Ambazonia leaders will continue to battle from behind bars 0
The Ambazonian who is shaping French and Southern Cameroons political future was taken back to his small room where a huge wall separates him from the other jailed members of his cabinet and visitors. Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, the Interim president of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia was charged with rebellion, sedition and terrorism and sentenced […]
28, August 2019
UK: Prime Minister Boris Johnson asks the Queen to suspend parliament 0
British PM Boris Johnson has caused a major surprise by asking the Queen to suspend the House of Commons just days after the end of the summer parliamentary recess in September. Johnson’s move is set to deepen Britain’s political crisis in the closing stages of the tortuous Brexit process.
28, August 2019
Clashes erupt between African migrants, police on Mexican border 0
Violent clashes between African migrants and Mexican military police erupted in Tapachula on Tuesday, as migrants demanded the right to travel north to the US and Canada. Hundreds of African migrants are currently trapped at the Mexican southern border, after the Latin American country decided to strengthen its border controls following US threats of imposing […]
29, August 2019
Death toll from capsized Cameroon ferry rises to 17 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
The death toll from a Cameroon ferry that capsized this week has risen to 17 after more bodies were found, state radio said on Wednesday, though the total number of victims was still unknown. Fourteen more bodies were recovered from the Bakassi Peninsula on Tuesday, two days after the ferry sunk off southwestern Cameroon, Cameroon […]