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4, July 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: 18 Ambazonians transferred from Buea to Kondengui 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, News
18 Anglophones were transferred yesterday from Buea Central Prison to Kondengui Prison, Yaounde. These 18 detainees are currently detained in ‘Kosovo’, a section of Kondengui maximum security prison. They have been kept in tight chains and were brutally tortured last night by prison guards who repeatedly called them Ambazonians. This prompted a strike action in […]
4, July 2018
Bundes: Merkel reaches deal with rebellious Interior Minister 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, Politics
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her rebellious interior minister have reached a compromise on a refugee dispute that threatened to disintegrate her coalition government. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, the leader of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU), told reporters after five hours of talks on Monday that he would maintain his post, saving Germany’s fragile government […]
4, July 2018
2018 World Cup: England beat Colombia 4-3 on penalties 0
by soter • Headline News, Sports, World
England have finally ended the decades long penalty jinx after beating Colombia on spot kicks at 4-3 to set up a quarterfinal match against Sweden. England’s players pose before the Russia 2018 World Cup round of 16 football match between Colombia and England at the Spartak Stadium in Moscow on July 3, 2018. (AFP) England’s […]
3, July 2018
Russia 2018: No Zlatan effect as Sweden reaches World Cup quarter-finals 0
by soter • Headline News, Sports, World
A Swedish national football team that resisted having famed Zlatan Ibrahimović in its World Cup 2018 roster has stunned many by advancing to the quarter-finals of the top global soccer event. It was a deflected shot from Emil Forsberg on the 66 minutes that sealed Sweden’s 1-0 victory against Switzerland in St Petersburg on Tuesday. The […]
3, July 2018
Maradona offers to coach Argentina for free 0
by soter • Headline News, Sports, World
Former Argentine great Diego Maradona has offered to coach his country for free, eight years after his last attempt ended in World Cup failure. Maradona, who watched his side eliminated 4-3 by France last weekend in Kazan, was asked if he fancied another shot at the job, even though current coach Jorge Sampaoli has a […]
3, July 2018
Yaounde: Parliamentary elections postponed 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
Parliamentary elections in Cameroon have been postponed a year until October 2019 after lawmakers adopted a bill on Monday. “The mandate of the deputies is extended for a period of twelve months, from October 29, 2018,” read the bill, supported by President Paul Biya. Biya has been in power since 1982, making him one of […]
3, July 2018
Russia 2018: Belgium moving slowly but surely 0
by soter • Headline News, Sports, World
Belgium threw caution to the wind to reach the World Cup quarter-finals as substitute Nacer Chadli scored in the dying seconds against Japan to snatch a 3-2 comeback win on Monday and set up a clash with five-time champions Brazil. The distraught Japanese, who went 2-0 up with goals by Genki Haraguchi and Takashi Inui […]
3, July 2018
Another boat capsizes off Libya, 63 refugees go missing 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Another boat carrying refugees has capsized while making the risky journey across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Europe, leaving 63 asylum seekers missing. The boat sunk off the coast of Libya, according to a spokesman for the North African country’s navy on Tuesday, who cited eyewitness accounts. Navy spokesman General Ayoub Kacem said that […]
3, July 2018
Yaounde has no idea how many innocent Southern Cameroonians it’s killing 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
Two years after President Biya launched his so-called war on separatists, an untold number of Southern Cameroonian civilians have been killed by disease, illness and by the French Cameroun military campaign. A Southern Cameroonian serving in French Cameroun as Prime Minister and Head of Government recently announced some kind of a humanitarian reconstruction aimed at […]
4, July 2018
War in Ambazonia: There are no longer any words to describe Southern Cameroons’s horror 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
The senseless war in Southern Cameroons has exhausted all superlatives. Worst day, worst month, worst year, worst ever. To be sure, words can no longer describe the killings currently going on in Southern Cameroons. For the past few days, Cameroon government army soldiers have fired rockets and artillery in many areas in the Northern and […]