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12, May 2019
Southern Cameroons Restoration Council Dossier: A “hotchpotch of Lies” 0
The former Acting President of Ambazonia, Samuel Ikome Sako has reportedly displayed a well-developed criminal intent all in a bid to hang on to leadership. Earlier this week, on the 6th of May 2019, Cameroon Concord News Group sounded a note of caution to Southern Cameroonians that Sako was planning to offer Elvis Kometa money […]
11, May 2019
Month after Bashir ouster, Sudan far from civilian rule 0
One month after ousting veteran president Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s military rulers show no sign of handing power to a civilian administration and talks with protest leaders remain deadlocked. Thousands of protesters remain encamped outside army headquarters in central Khartoum, vowing to force the generals to cede power just as they forced Bashir from office. “We […]
11, May 2019
US passes phone number to Swiss in case Iran wants to call 0
The White House has contacted Swiss authorities to share a telephone number with Iran in hopes that Tehran will contact US President Donald Trump, CNN reports. The White House contacted the Swiss on Thursday, the same day Trump publicly appealed to Iran to call him amid heightened tensions, the broadcaster cited a source as saying. The […]
11, May 2019
Africa Cup of Nations: Cameroon names preliminary squad 0
Defending African champions Cameroon have released their preliminary squad for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations Cup, with Joel Matip and Nicolas Nkoulou not included in the 34-man squad named by coach Clarence Seedorf. Matip last played for the Indomitable Lions in September 2016, while Nkoulou has refused to honour invitations since the final against […]
11, May 2019
Battle for Ambazonia: Fru Ndi calls for cease fire to end war 0
Cameroon’s main opposition party on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire and the release of all political prisoners, during talks with Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute on resolving the country’s regional conflict with anglophone separatists. At the meeting in Bamenda, capital of the restive anglophone Northwest Region, Social Democratic Front (SDF) leader Ni John Fru […]
11, May 2019
The Age of the Internet Calls for Younger Leaders 0
Days before Algeria’s 82-year-old strongman president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was ousted from power, the country made one last ditch attempt to keep control: it shut down the internet. A few weeks later, 75-year-old Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s rule ended with a picture of mainly female protestors going viral on social media platforms. If there has […]
10, May 2019
Yaounde says ready to dialogue with Ambazonians 0
Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute said Thursday that his government is willing to dialogue with armed separatist on all demands excluding separation. “Apart from the indivisibility of Cameroon, the president of the republic is ready to organize a formal dialogue to resolve the socio-political crisis in Northwest and Southwest. The president is ready to […]
10, May 2019
Human Rights Watch details torture and incommunicado detention in Cameroon 0
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday described the abuse of detainees at a detention center in Cameroon’s capital city of Yaoundé, identifying violations of domestic and international human rights law. Torture and detention have been “endemic in Cameroon’s law enforcement and military system,” carried out by gendarmes and other security forces of the State Defense Secretariat. These tactics are […]
10, May 2019
UK negotiates a post-Brexit Economic Partnership Agreement with Cameroon 0
Jean Tchoffo, Secretary General of the Cameroonian economy ministry, presided on May 8 in Yaoundé over the presentation of a report on the trade impact of the bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Cameroon and the United Kingdom. According to the official, the validation of this study is the first step before the actual start […]
12, May 2019
Quotable Quote: Record number of Southern Cameroonians displaced 0
by soter • Headline News, Politics, World
“In the Southern and Western Anglophone parts of Cameroon, there is an armed conflict; nobody is talking about it, nobody is engaging to end (it) There is no mediation, there is no humanitarian programme commensurate to the scale of the suffering. But there are hundreds of torched villages and there is now between four and […]