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11, April 2019
Manchester United own goal hands victory to Barcelona 0
Barcelona will take a 1-0 lead over Manchester United into next week’s second leg of their Champions League quarter-final after a 12th-minute Luke Shaw own goal gave them victory at Old Trafford on Wednesday. Sergio Busquets found Lionel Messi with a clever ball into the area and the Argentine carved out space on the left to deliver […]
11, April 2019
Coup d’état seems to be underway in Sudan 0
The Sudanese military says it will be making “an important announcement” soon, as a coup d’état seems to be underway against President Omar al-Bashir.
11, April 2019
“Government forces are committing abuses against people living in the Anglophone areas of Cameroon” 0
Cameroonian security forces have killed five civilian men, one of whom was beheaded, in an attack on a village in a restive anglophone region, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. The five were either killed execution-style or shot as they attempted to flee from forces raiding their neighbourhood on April 4 in Meluf, near […]
11, April 2019
Cameroon gov’t forces attack Southern Cameroons village 0
Cameroonian soldiers, gendarmes, and members of the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BIR) carried out a deadly attack on the North-West region village of Meluf on April 4, 2019. Government forces killed five civilian men, including one with a mental disability, and wounded one woman. Three of the bodies were later found mutilated, including one that had […]
11, April 2019
African Development Bank hosts Urban and Municipal Development Fund 0
The African Development Bank last week hosted the launch of the Urban and Municipal Development Fund (UMDF) at is Headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Urban and Municipal Development Fund (UMDF) is a multi-donor Trust Fund to scale up interventions in urban development and drive sustainable growth in cities across the African continent. The UMDF […]
10, April 2019
Algeria’s New Dictator Abdelkader Bensalah 0
Algeria’s parliament on Tuesday confirmed Abdelkader Bensalah as the new interim president of the country, following lat week’s resignation by the ailing Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Bouteflika’s resignation, fuelled by protests that have lasted over a month, means Algeria has a new president for the first time in 20 years. In this article, we profile the new […]
10, April 2019
Southern Cameroons Crisis: New HRW Report Indicts Government Forces 0
Human Rights Watch (HRW), the global human rights watchdog, has investigated murders in many Cameroonian villages in the country’s northwest region. The report published in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has accused Cameroonian soldiers, gendarmes, and members of the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BIR) of carrying out a deadly attack on the North-West region village of Meluf on April […]
10, April 2019
Open Letter to Chief V. E. Mukete 0
Your Royal Highness, In 1990, the founding National Vice President of the CPDM party, Dr. John Ngu Foncha resigned from the party, citing some of the issues you are now complaining about. By remaining inside that party, did you hope to correct those wrongs or did you consider that John Ngu Foncha was just a […]
10, April 2019
What’s next in Brexit? The possible scenarios 0
As British Prime Minister Theresa May scrambles to secure a Brexit extension at Wednesday’s crucial EU summit, what are the possible scenarios in the days to come? Here are the possibilities: No-deal Brexit on April 12 May is seeking a Brexit delay until June 30. MPs this week forced through legislation to force the prime […]
11, April 2019
Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir steps down 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
A Sudanese government source says President Omar al-Bashir has stepped down and that consultations are underway to form a transitional council. Adel Mahjoub Hussein, the Sudanese minister of production and economic resources in North Darfur, told the Dubai-based al-Hadath TV on Thursday that, “There are consultations to form a military council to take over power […]