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18, April 2018
African athletes keep going missing at global sporting events and it’s only going to get worse 0
by soter • Headline News, Sports, World
African athletes at the Commonwealth Games in Australia have been in the news for action on and off the track. The haul of 34 gold medals won by African athletes has been overshadowed by headlines of at least 13 athletes from Cameroon, Uganda, Rwanda and Sierra Leone absconding from team camps. It’s a recurring scenario […]
18, April 2018
Regulator to Inspect Cameroon’s Douala Airport Repairs 0
by soter • Business, Headline News, World
The International Civil Aviation Organization will inspect the airport of Cameroon’s port city, Douala, to monitor improvements to the facility. The inspection will follow after the French Development Agency gave the country a loan of 46 million euro ($57 million) in 2015 to rehabilitate runways and modernize the facility to comply with ICAO directives, the […]
18, April 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Massive Anti-Biya Outpouring Expected in London 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Hundreds of Southern Cameroons protesters from all over Europe and the UK are heading to London for a massive demonstration on Friday against a possible President Biya presence in the Commonwealth heads of government meeting and to show solidarity with the Ambazonian freedom fighters back home. In a global outpouring of anti-Biya sentiment, London and […]
18, April 2018
Why are so many French speaking Cameroonians opposed to Southern Cameroons gaining its independence? 0
by soter • Headline News, Politics, World
Why are we asking this question now? Because Southern Cameroons declared itself to be the world’s newest country under the leadership of President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe some two decades after President Biya’s dissolution of the United Republic of Cameroon – and after a ghastly cavalcade of gruesome atrocities, forced expulsions and a genocide that has […]
18, April 2018
Former US first lady Barbara Bush dies at 92 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Former US first lady Barbara Bush, the only woman to see her husband and son both sworn in as president, has died at the age of 92. “A former First Lady of the United States of America and relentless proponent of family literacy, Barbara Pierce Bush passed away Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at the age […]
17, April 2018
Cameroon team chief says he’s heard nothing from missing athletes 0
by soter • Headline News, Sports, World
Cameroon’s Chef de Mission is due to fly out of the Gold Coast this morning having heard nothing from his eight missing Commonwealth Games athletes, saying he is exhausted from the scrutiny prompted by their disappearance. Victor Agbor Nso had to deal with the media fallout after the athletes vanished from the athletes’ village during […]
17, April 2018
Why Nigeria must end the suffering in English-speaking Cameroon 0
by soter • Headline News, Politics, World
The recent unrest in the English-speaking region of Western Cameroon caught the attention of the world media as well as that of the UN, EU and other international agencies. It is threatening to become part of what Wole Soyinka famously termed “the open wound of a continent”. Cameroon is a low-income country with a population […]
17, April 2018
French president warns authoritarianism on rise in Europe 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, Politics
French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that there is a growing temptation of authoritarianism both inside the European Union and around the world, urging the continental bloc to reinforce its democratic process. Macron said on Tuesday that the EU was facing a sort of “civil war” after Britain decided to pull out of the bloc […]
17, April 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Where is the international community? 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
For almost two years, Southern Cameroons has been reduced into a slaughter house with government troops killing innocent citizens as if they were not human beings. In many parts of Southern Cameroons, many young men, many of whom are innocent and have nothing to do with the ugly fighting that is playing out over there, […]
18, April 2018
Zimbabwe dismisses thousands of striking nurses 0
by soter • Headline News, Health, Life
Zimbabwe has fired all nurses who went on strike to demand higher salaries, in a hardline response by the country’s new leadership to growing labor arrest. Several thousand nurses were sacked in a terse statement issued on Tuesday evening by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who accused the strikers of being “politically motivated.” Patients were turned […]