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11, July 2018
Indomitable Lions: Clinton N’jie in hot water with FECAFOOT for inviting 2 girls to his room 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Sports
Marseille attacker Clinton N’Jie in hot water with Cameroon FA for inviting 2 girls to his room during international duty The Cameroonian FA have confirmed that they are looking into two incidents of misbehaviour on the part of squad member and Marseille attacker Clinton N’Jie. In a press release, the country’s FA regretted that N’Jie […]
11, July 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: As the violence grows, Christians provide trauma healing 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Religion
Cameroon is embroiled in what could be the precursor to a civil war. The nation is currently divided into two basic populations: the French-speaking majority and the English-speaking minority to the southwest who want to break off as their own nation — Ambazonia. Those in the Anglophone region feel underrepresented by Cameroon’s government. Two years ago, they […]
11, July 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Presidential elections won’t cut it 0
by soter • Headline News, Politics, World
For close to two years, Cameroon, a poor and corrupt Central African country has been caught up in a downward spiral as the killing in the two English-speaking regions of the country take a turn for the worse. A strike by teachers and lawyers has turned into an armed conflict between Southern Cameroonian separatists and […]
11, July 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Police killed in flashpoint city of Buea 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, News
At least three policemen, including a superintendent, have been killed in fighting between English-speaking separatists and security forces in western Cameroon, local sources said on Tuesday. The violence, which continued on Tuesday, marks a bloody escalation in a campaign to gain independence for two English-speaking regions from the rest of the French-speaking country. A local […]
10, July 2018
Keeping Biya in power in a divided country through a counterfeit presidential election will undermine efforts to achieve peace 0
by soter • Editorial, Headline News
Paul Biya has accepted and announced a President Macron initiative to hold presidential elections in French Cameroun without any attempt at resolving the crisis with Southern Cameroonians. This could be the greatest political disaster in the making for both Southern Cameroons and French Cameroun including the European Union. The deliberate silence maintain by the 85 […]
10, July 2018
US: Trump picks Brett Kavanaugh for US Supreme Court, angry protests erupt 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
US President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the US Supreme Court, provoking angry protests in Washington and elsewhere. “It is my honor and privilege to announce that I will nominate Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court,” Trump said at the White House on Monday. Kavanaugh’s nomination set the stage […]
10, July 2018
Kinshasa: President Kabila delays UN chief’s visit, refuses to see U.S. envoy Haley 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, News
Congolese President Joseph Kabila has put off a planned visit this week by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and refused to see U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who diplomats said had also separately planned to visit Kinshasa. Kabila, who succeeded his assassinated father Laurent in 2001, was busy organizing Dec. 23 elections and […]
10, July 2018
Biya sets presidential elections for October 7, amid worsening Southern Cameroons crisis 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
Cameroon’s president Paul Biya issued a decree on Monday saying a presidential election will be held on October 7, amidst a worsening security situation in the Southwest and Northwest Anglophone regions. As Biya’s decree was being read on public television, the inhabitants of Buea, the capital of the Southwest region were still confined to their […]
9, July 2018
Congo-Kinshasa faces upsurge of violence unless a deal is done with President Kabila 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, Politics
Amid a fresh wave of civil unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the international community must question its confidence in President Joseph Kabila to achieve stability in a turbulent region. He has been at the helm since he took over as president in 2001 after his father, Laurent, was assassinated. The young Kabila ruled for […]
11, July 2018
UN applauds Ethiopia-Eritrea rapprochement 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, Politics
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has hailed the rapprochement between ex-foes Eritrea and Ethiopia but has not offered to review the sanctions on the former country after expressions of concern by a number of council members. A draft UNSC statement, initially prepared by Sweden, on Tuesday “reaffirmed that efforts by the Government of Eritrea […]