12, November 2019
Former US President Jimmy Carter in Atlanta hospital 0
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was admitted to an Atlanta hospital on Monday for a procedure to relieve brain pressure from bleeding caused by recent falls, the Carter Center said in a statement.
Carter, 95, the country’s oldest living president, was admitted to Emory University Hospital three weeks after suffering a minor pelvic fracture in a fall at his home in Plains, Georgia. He was released from the hospital a few days after that accident.
A previous fall earlier in October required stitches to Carter’s face, but he resumed work soon after on a homebuilding project for the nonprofit group Habitat for Humanity.
In May, the former Democratic president broke his hip, also at home, requiring him to undergo surgery.. He was hospitalised briefly in 2017 for dehydration and was diagnosed with skin cancer in 2015.
No information was immediately provided about the circumstances leading to his latest hospitalisation.
The procedure to relieve pressure on his brain was scheduled for Tuesday morning, the Carter Center said, adding that he was “resting comfortably,” and that his wife, Rosalynn, 92, was with him.
Carter, a former peanut farmer and Georgia governor, defeated Republican President Gerald Ford in 1976 to become the nation’s 39th president, serving a single four-year term in the White House.
His presidency was overshadowed by an economic recession, an energy crisis and the taking of U.S. hostages by Iran, but he also played a leading role in brokering the Camp David Accords leading to an Egypt-Israel peace treaty.
He lost his 1980 re-election bid to Republican Ronald Reagan.
After leaving office in 1981, Carter went on to become an international fixture and a noted humanitarian. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts toward finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts, advancing democracy and human rights, and promoting economic and social development.
He and his wife founded the Carter Center in 1982 to carry on their international and humanitarian work.
Carter has lived longer after leaving the White House than any former president in U.S. history.
(REUTERS)
12, November 2019
Soldiers, tanks parading the streets of Yaoundé amid fears of coup 0
Troops loyal to the Biya Francophone regime backed by tanks have been deployed on the streets of the nation’s capital Yaoundé with others around the presidential palace, state radio and television today morning as rumours of a coup attempt spread after the 86 year old dictator travelled to Paris, France.
The government has not commented on the recent deployment around the palace of President Paul Biya but Cameroon Intelligence Report sources say the decision is to prepare for a counter offensive.
All the armed forces in French Cameroun including the elite force known as the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) in a country – which has seen only one attempted coup since independence are on top alert.
Several people around Etoudi and Poste Centrale have remained indoors as soldiers and tanks moved into place. But many people are still going about their daily activities causing traffic jams.
Paul Biya continues to kill to stay in power, cheered on by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Both Biya and his UN acolyte Guterres are set to meet in Paris tomorrow Wednesday the 13th of November.
By Sama Ernest in Yaounde