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5, April 2019
Ethiopian crew on ill-fated flight followed all Boeing guidelines 0
An official report by Ethiopia’s government says the pilots of a Boeing MAX airplane operated by the country’s flag carrier that crashed last month followed all safety guidelines provided by the US aircraft manufacturer. Ethiopia’s Minister of Transport Dagmawit Moges made the remark on Thursday as she delivered the first official report on the disaster, which […]
5, April 2019
‘I swapped close to 5,000 babies in the 12 years I worked in the maternity ward’ – Nurse confesses 0
A dying nurse has begged God for forgiveness while confessing that she swapped thousands of babies while she was working as a nurse in UTH. Elizabeth Mwewa, a nurse who worked at University Teaching Hospital, formerly called Lusaka Hospital, in Lusaka, Zambia, confessed on her sick bed that she exchanged the babies of thousands of […]
5, April 2019
US: 5 Cameroonians Indicted For Wire Fraud And Money Laundering 0
A federal grand jury indicted five individuals on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment was returned on October 26, 2017, and unsealed upon the arrest of the defendants. The five individuals indicted are: Aldrin Fon Fomukong, a/k/a “Albanky,” a/k/a “A.L.,” age 24, of Greenbelt, Maryland; Nnkeng […]
5, April 2019
Atanga Nji says number of internally displaced persons in Southern Cameroons inflated by NGOs 0
NGOs are exaggerating the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Cameroon’s two war-torn English-speaking regions in a bid “to make business,” an official said on Thursday. “I read a public document recently published by an NGO saying that we have more than 400,000 internally displaced people in Cameroon. That is total misinformation and I […]
5, April 2019
Cameroon sees drop in HIV/AIDS prevalence 0
Cameroon recorded a decline in number of HIV/AIDS infections in the last seven years, according to Minister of Public Health Malachie Manaouda. Prevalence rate fell from 4.3 percent in 2011 to 3.4 percent in 2018 due to increase in financing and the “massive scale-up” of sensitization, prevention and treatment measures, Manaouda said on Wednesday. The […]
4, April 2019
Burkina Faso: More than 60 killed in violence 0
More than 60 civilians have been killed in tit-for-tat clashes between communities in northern Burkina Faso in recent days, the government said on Wednesday, the latest in a bout of inter-communal violence afflicting West Africa’s Sahel region. Burkina and neighbouring Mali have seen a spike in ethnic clashes fuelled by Islamist militants as they seek to extend their […]
4, April 2019
Cameroon-Central Africa traffic resumes, after about a month of suspension 0
Freight transport between Cameroon and the Central African Republic via the border city of Garoua-Boulaï, western part of Cameroon, resumed March 28 after about a month of suspension. The good news is owing to a decision by Central African rebels to break camp at that border they blocked since March 3 to protest against the […]
4, April 2019
Four seafarers snatched in Cameroon pirate attack 0
Four crew members have been seized by pirates following an attack on the Contship Oak containership off the coast of Cameron in the Gulf of Guinea. According to Maritime Bulletin, the vessel was at anchorage when pirates boarded it and kidnapped the crewmembers. The 1,118 TEU vessel, owned by carrier Contship, then continued to the […]
4, April 2019
Yaounde rejects Human Rights Watch report on Southern Cameroons 0
Cameroon said Tuesday that it firmly opposed what it called “bias” report by the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) on atrocities in its war-torn English-speaking regions. The HRW report published on March 28 blamed government forces for killing “scores of civilians”, using indiscriminate force, and torching “hundreds of homes” over the past six months. “The […]
6, April 2019
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Switzerland offers Cameroon its expertise 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Switzerland’s Ambassador to Cameroon, Pietro Lazzeri, was granted an audience April 4 at the Palais de l’Unité by President Paul Biya; a meeting during which both authorities reviewed the sociopolitical situation in Cameroon’s northwest and southwest regions. “The diplomat submitted an offer that aims to help Cameroon find responses to the crisis,” according to the […]