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29, April 2019
US: One dead, seven injured in Baltimore shooting 0
An unknown gunman has opened fire onto a crowd in the city of Baltimore, Maryland in northeastern United States, killing one person and injuring seven more. The assailant took on the targets on Edmondson and Whitmore avenues in West Baltimore at around 05:00 p.m. local time on Sunday, the Associated Press reported, citing Baltimore Police […]
29, April 2019
AFCON U-17: Cameroon Crowned Africa Champions 0
Guinea’s national under-17 male football team on Sunday lost 3-5 after penalty kicks to their Cameroonian counterparts in a pulsating final match at the Africa Under-17 Nations Cup competition. In the final match played at the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania both sides drew goalless after 90 minutes of intense action. […]
29, April 2019
Boko Haram kills 3 civilians, a soldier in attack on Cameroon 0
Assailants from the jihadist group Boko Haram killed at least four people, one soldier and three civilians, and seriously injured four others during an attack on Kofia, a Cameroonian island on Lake Chad. In the attack that occurred in the night from Saturday to Sunday the assailants also destroyed part of a military post and […]
29, April 2019
“Military not the solution to Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis” 0
A military response will not solve the ongoing Anglophone crisis in Cameroon, says a spokesman for the local Catholic Church. About 80 percent of Cameroon is French-speaking. However, the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon are majority English-speaking. In October 2016, strikes by lawyers and teachers over perceived attempts by the Francophone administration to assimilate […]
29, April 2019
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Fru Ndi released by kidnappers 0
The chairman of Cameroon’s main opposition party Ni John Fru Ndi has been released after being kidnapped earlier Saturday in the Northwest Region, one of two English-speaking provinces in the grip of an armed conflict for over a year, his party said. The SDF leader was abducted while leading a funeral procession, his party said […]
27, April 2019
Boko Haram overrun army base in Nigeria, steal weapons 0
Members of the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group have attacked and overrun an outpost belonging to the Nigerian government troops in the northeastern parts of the African country, stealing weapons before fleeing, military sources say. Militants of the terror group launched their attack against the outpost at Mararrabar Kimba in the volatile Borno state late […]
27, April 2019
5 facts about the Ambazonia crisis in Cameroon 0
Since 2014, Boko Haram’s insurgency has wreaked havoc in the Far-North region of Cameroon, displacing 244,347 people as of January 2019. As Cameroon grapples with this challenge, a relatively new and poorly understood crisis is simultaneously unfolding in the country’s North-West and South-West regions which, as of March 2019, has led to the displacement of […]
27, April 2019
Norwegian Refugee Council Urges World To Pay Attention To Humanitarian Outfall Of Southern Cameroons War 0
The Norwegian Refugee Council humanitarian organization expressed worries on Thursday about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon caused by violent conflict between the government and non-state armed groups and called upon international community to pay attention to the situation. “We need to scale up the humanitarian response, and there is a need for independent reporting from the international media. But […]
27, April 2019
Containing and Deterring Biya: Act now or face disaster, aid chief warns 0
A separatist conflict in Cameroon that has forced half a million people from their homes is in danger of worsening, the head of a major aid agency has warned, condemning what he called the “international silence” over the crisis. Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), said the world had underestimated the […]
30, April 2019
Video purportedly shows Daesh ringleader after 5 years 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
The Takfiri terror group of Daesh has released a propaganda video purporting to show its ringleader Ibrahim al-Samarrai, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, for the first time in five years. The group released the 18-minute footage via one of its media networks on Monday allegedly showing him addressing a gathering of three. The authenticity of the […]