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11, July 2016

Portugal clinch first European football championship title ⁰

Despite losing captain Cristiano Ronaldo early in the match, an extra-time late solo by Portugal’s forward Eder against the host France saw Fernando Santos’s team clinch their first European football Championship title.

Portugal’s forward Cristiano Ronaldo holds his leg after being injured during the Euro 2016 final football match between Portugal and France at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on July 10, 2016. (AFP)

Twenty-five minutes into the Sunday night match, Ronaldo left the pitch in tears after playing for eight minutes while he was suffering from a knee injury from a clash with France’s Dimitri Payet.

Portugal’s forward Eder shoots to score the team’s first goal during the Euro 2016 final football match between France and Portugal at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on July 10, 2016. (AFP)

France’s goalkeeper Hugo Lloris (L) fails to save a goal by Portugal’s forward Eder (2ndR) during the Euro 2016 final football match between Portugal and France at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on July 10, 2016. (AFP)

The lackluster match was played out to a nil-nil stalemate until Portugal’s Eder (Éderzito António Macedo Lopes) picked up the ball in midfield and fired into the corner of the net with less than 10 minutes to the final whistle.

Portugal players celebrate their 1-0 win over France during the Euro 2016 final football match between France and Portugal at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on July 10, 2016. (AFP)

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10, July 2016

Mayor of Lagdo, 13 others freed ⁰

Mama Abakaï, Mayor of Lagdo in the north and 13 Cameroonian hostages have been released after negotiations that did involve the governments of Cameroon, Central African Republic, the UN peace keeping mission, Minusca and the Central African armed groups that carried out the kidnappings.

Cameroon Concord News learnt that they were freed two days. Our informant hinted that the mayor and his entourage were first handed over to the UN peace keepers before they started their journey home for Garoua –Boulaï. The 14 Cameroonian hostages were kidnapped on March 19, 2015 at Gbabio, a town in eastern Cameroon.

Sama Ernest (Cameroon Concord News Group)

10, July 2016

Minister Martin Belinga Eboutou travels to France for medical reasons ⁰

The Director of the Civil Cabinet at the Presidency of the Republic has reportedly traveled to France for medical reasons. Martin Belinga Eboutou, a long time acolyte of the Cameroonian dictator, President Biya, smuggled himself out of the country yesterday night.

Cameroon Concord News gathered from an authoritative source that Martin Belinga Eboutou walked through one of the tarmacs of the Nsimalen international airport incognito looking a very sick man and boarded an Air France flight to Paris.

10, July 2016

Black protest resumes in US ⁰

‘Black Lives Matter’ protests have resumed across the US with protesters demonstrating over the recent police killings of two African Americans.

On Tuesday, 37-year-old Alton Sterling was fatally shot by police in the southeastern city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot dead Wednesday by a police officer near St. Paul, Minnesota. On Saturday, protesters held demonstrations in Baton Rouge and some of them were arrested by police in riot gear.

The protesters marched along the right lane of Airline Highway until police blocked all six lanes of traffic and began walking toward the demonstrators. They were chanting, “black power” and “no justice, no peace, no racist police.”

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9, July 2016

Boko Haram raids Northeastern Nigeria, kills 7 ⁰

The Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists raided a town in northeastern Nigeria Saturday, killing at least seven people. Locals in Borno state said Boko Haram gunmen stormed the town of Rann in Kalabalge district overnight Friday through Saturday and opened fire on homes.

“They opened fire on homes as we slept and killed seven people before carting away our food supplies and drugs from the only clinic in the town,” said a Rann resident, referring to the Boko Haram gunmen on motorcycles.

Rann’s residents had fled the town into Cameroon and to the town of Gamboru, about 28 kilometers (17 miles) away.

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9, July 2016

Transport Minister installs newly appointed officials ⁰

Seven newly appointed officials at the Ministry of Transport have been commissioned into their various functions. The Installation ceremony that held on Friday the 8^th of July 2016 was supervised by the Minister of Transport, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o.

The Biya acolyte said during the event that assiduity should be the watch word if production must increase. Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o congratulated the seven for the great efforts they made to win the confidence of the Cameroon government.

Among the newly appointed officials were directors and chiefs of service, in charge of the Ministry’s budget, road and Maritime transport, Rail way lines, the National Meteorology and the Communication service.

They are expected to ameliorate the Urban Transport and road security, investigate accidents and incidents in the aeronautic services, rehabilitate the meteorological network system, reinforce public information and restructure the Chantier Naval Industry in Cameroon. They were appointed based on Presidential decree No2016/2568/PM of 4th July 2016.

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9, July 2016

Cameroon: Beggars abandoned streets following adoption of new penal code ⁰

Beggars in Yaounde have abandoned the streets following the adoption of a penal code on begging, which promises sanctions to those guilty of aggravated begging. The article on begging stipulates that anyone who has a means of subsistence but begs to earn a living will be liable to a prison sentence of up to three years and a fine of up to 500.000 CFAF.

In the same guise, people who use visually impaired persons to beg shall be charged with aggravated begging. Following the adoption of this article, beggars seemed to have deserted the streets of Yaounde, for fear of the above mentioned sanctions.

Inhabitants of Yaounde have hailed the article saying it will help rid the streets of criminals who pose for people in distress.

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9, July 2016

Cameroon ambassador to the US holds talks with the King of Lewoh ⁰

Cameroon’s new ambassador to the United States of America, Etoundi Essomba has met with the Supreme Leader of the Lewoh people from the Lebialem division in Cameroon.

Veteran Cameroonian journalist, Asonglefac Nkemleke reported via his face book page that Ambassador Etoudi Essomba also held discussions with members of the Lewoh Cultural and Development Meeting (LECUDEM).

The Friday July 7, 2016 come together provided a rare opportunity for His Majesty Fotabong Lekelefac to hold talks with the State Delegate, Will Smith of Montgomery County. The traditional ruler and King of the Lewohs is currently on his ever first visit to the USA.

Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai (Cameroon Concord News Group)

9, July 2016

NATO agrees to deploy thousands of troops in Poland and the Baltic states ⁰

NATO leaders have agreed to deploy thousands of troops in Poland and the Baltic states in a bid to strengthen the 28-nation alliance’s eastern borders in Europe against Russia. The Western military alliance announced on Friday that it will move four battalions totaling up to 4,000 troops to northeastern Europe on a rotating basis to display its readiness to support Eastern European member states against the so-called Russian aggression.

“These battalions will be robust and they will be multinational. They make clear that an attack on one ally will be considered an attack on the whole alliance,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during a press conference after the first working session of a two-day summit in the Polish capital Warsaw on Friday.

Stoltenberg said the plan is justified under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states that if an “armed attack against one or more” NATO member states is launched “in Europe or North America,” it “shall be considered an attack against them all,” and all members will have to take the necessary actions to assist the invaded ally.

The UK will send 500 troops for a battalion based in Estonia, while Germany and Canada will lead two more battalions in Lithuania and Latvia, respectively. US President Barack Obama said at the summit that under the plan, his country would deploy an armored brigade of 1,000 troopers as the fourth battalion in Poland next year “to enhance our forward presence in Central and Eastern Europe.”

“In other words, Poland will be seeing an increase in NATO and American personnel and in the most modern military equipment,” Obama said.

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9, July 2016

African Americans oppressed by police like Palestinians ⁰

The police killings of two black men in the United States in the past week underscores that African Americans continue to be oppressed as an ethnic group like the Palestinians, an American researcher and historian says. Law enforcement in the US is committing “genocide” against blacks on a daily basis, Dr. Randy Short, who has a Ph.D in African studies, told Press TV on Thursday.

“Nothing has really been done to deal with the problem of structural racism and oppressions as done by American law enforcement departments, so we still have large numbers of people being killed, beaten, and brutalized,” Dr. Short said. “The issue is African Americans are an oppressed, hated nationality grouping like the Kurds or the Palestinians,” he added.

Several police officers in the US states of Tennessee, Missouri and Georgia have been shot and wounded in a string of separate attacks against law enforcement amid heightened tensions over the police killing of African Americans in the past week. The attacks on police, which occurred on Thursday and Friday, come after a gunman in Dallas, Texas, killed five officers and wounded seven more on Thursday night.

The Dallas incident, the deadliest day for police in the US since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, came during one of several protests across the country against the killing of two black men by police this week. The fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in the states of Louisiana and Minnesota were the latest in a long string of killings that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter social movement.

The New York Police Department was investigating 17 threats against police that came in following the deaths of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to NYPD Chief of Intelligence Thomas Galati. Police in the United States killed over 1,150 people in 2015, with the largest police departments disproportionately killing at least 321 African Americans, according to data compiled by an activist group that runs the Mapping Police Violence project.

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