CALABAR—MFUM, a border community in Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State has come under attack by soldiers from Cameroon, leaving three fishermen dead and two others with bullet wounds. A resident of the area, Okpa Ekpe, told Vanguard on phone that the attack was an onslaught by soldiers from that country who are in pursuit of separatists agitating for Ambazonia Republic, a country for the Anglophone people who are in the south west part of Cameroon.

The eye witness said the attack lasted about three hours in the morning of Sunday and caught the fishermen who went out to the river to fish early in the day unawares. “The shooting was intense and mainly directed to the Nigerian side of the Mfum border and lasted for about three hours.

The Cameroon soldiers have been doing this occasionally since the agitation for independence by the South West people of Cameroon increased.” Captain Kolawole Owolabi, the Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Army in Calabar could not be reached as his phone was switched off but Ms Irene Ugbo, the Police Public Relations Officer of Cross River Police Command, when contacted said she was not aware of any attack.

Source: www.vanguardngr.com

Over 1,000 people were forced to leave their homes and business premises after floods in several areas in Yaoundé. The flooding was caused by heavy rain that began on the 26^th February, 2018.

The Avenue Kennedy district is the worst hit area. The Francophone dominated National Disaster Management Agency reported that relief centers have been set up in some districts, accommodating displaced people. Cameroon Intelligence Report understands that several schools were closed in the affected areas.

Yaoundé city council sources hinted that 115 people have evacuated their homes in Carrefour Obili and are staying with extended families.  Schools were also closed in the Bastos district according to local media.

Heavy rain has also affected parts of Omnisport, where some people are currently displaced. Nothing has been said so far about students in boarding schools. The Biya regime warned of further heavy rain and strong winds.

Source: www.cameroonintelligencereport.com

The majority of voters believe media treats US President Donald Trump fairly despite his incessant complaints about fake news, a new poll shows.

Fifty- four percent of the voters said that the president is portrayed fairly on media, according to the poll released Monday.

Most of the Republican voters, however, thought otherwise, with 80 saying the media is unfair to him.

Meanwhile, 84 percent of Democrats and 55 percent of independents said he does get a fair share from the media and the press.

The voters were also asked to say if the president, for his part, trats media fairly, to which the 59 percent said “No,” including 62 percent of independents.

“At 54/46, the public is divided on whether the media is fair to President Trump, as these numbers mirror his job approval,” said Harvard CAPS-Harris co-director Mark Penn. “But Trump’s unorthodox blasts at the media prompt most to say he is unfair to them.”

Since the 2016 campaign, Trump has repeatedly used the term “fake news” largely for any coverage criticizing him or his allies.

Still, the voters said they believe there is “a lot” of fake news in the mainstream media while 84 percent said they have a hard time knowing what news to believe.

Thirty percent said Fox News is where they mostly get the news, followed by local news and CNN at 26 percent each. NBC News came in at 21 percent, followed by ABC at 20, CBS at 18 and The New York Times at 10 percent. MSNBC, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and NPR all polled in the single-digits.

“People have become siloed in their news watching and although Fox is number one, the combined strength of the other media outweighs Fox in media consumption,” Penn said.

Outgoing UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has said that UNSC veto-wielding members are second only to criminals.

Ra’ad al-Hussein accused the council’s permanent members, particularly Russia, China, and the United States, of being responsible for the continuation of suffering of innocents and misusing their veto powers.

He made the remarks during his last speech before his four-year term expires at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

“So long as the veto is used by them to block any unity of action when it is needed the most, when it could reduce the extreme sufferings of innocent people, then it is they – the permanent members – who must answer before the victims,” he added.

The UN human rights chief further slammed the international community for failing to control what he referred to as brutal conflicts around the globe.

“Second to those who are criminally responsible – those who kill and maim – the responsibility for the continuation of so much pain lies with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council,” he added.

Source: Presstv

Animbom Aron Yong, the Regional Delegate for Social Affairs for the North West was reportedly abducted on Saturday by unidentified individuals presented by the Biya regime as Ambazonia secessionist fighters.

The kidnapping occurred while the administrative cadre had gone to Nyen, a village in the North West constituency in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. The Francophone governor of the region, Adolphe Lele Lafrique confirmed the disappearance of the regional delegate, whose abduction occurred some 13 days after that of the sub-prefect of Batibo.

Our senior correspondent in Yaounde has also confirmed the death of a gendarme, Larrissa Souzock Mvondo during violent clashes between suspected Ambazonian militants and the Biya regime security forces.  Concordant community sources have also indicated that violent clashes between Southern Cameroons defense groups and French Cameroun military troops occurred on Saturday.

We understand that several Southern Cameroons civilians have been killed and three soldiers were also wounded during the fighting. This new drama brings to 27 (Issa Tchiroma stats) the number of soldiers killed in attacks attributed to the crisis in Southern Cameroons.

By Rita Akana and Kingsley Betek

US gun manufacturers have produced over 70 million firearms since 2008, quickly escalating the production of rifles and the types of semiautomatic weapons used in recent mass shootings, according to data from the US government and gun industry.

In 2016, the latest year for which data is available, firearms companies sharply increased production, building 11.5 million guns, in part due to a belief that the Democratic Party would win the presidential election that year and curtail access to semiautomatic weapons such as the AR-15 rifle.

American companies have produced more than 150 million firearms since 1986, according to the “Annual Firearms Manufacturing and Export Report” published each year by the US Justice Department.

The vast majority of all US-produced firearms were sold domestically, the Justice Department said.

The data also shows periodic spikes of production and firearm sales when there’s the possibility of new federal gun-control policies.

Remington Arms Company, one of America’s largest gun manufacturers, reported sales of firearms reached $437.8 million in 2016, up 16.7 percent from the year before.

The company said sales of “modern sporting rifles,” which includes firearms like the AR-15, increased $34.2 million that year, though it didn’t provide aggregate sales figures for this style.

The two biggest years for gun production in recent history took place in 2013 and 2016, when intense debates about whether Democrats would be able to curb access to firearms.

“Gun lovers have been convinced that their right to buy guns in general, or particular types of guns, would be taken away by the politicians and they better hurry up and get whatever guns they have considered obtaining,” said Philip Cook, professor emeritus of public policy studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Gun sales dropped sharply in early 2017, after US President Donald Trump and the Republican Party — which oppose to gun control — took full control of government, according to sales figures from several large gun manufacturers.

To deal with last year’s falling demand, many gun companies and retailers offered steep discounts and rebates on firearms to lure more buyers.

The report comes as the National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful gun lobby in the US, comes under increasing pressure following the mass shooting at a high school in Florida earlier this month.

Nikolas Cruz, an ex-student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, opened fire on February 14, with an AR-15-style assault rifle, killing 17 people and injuring 14 more in his former school.

It was also the 18th school shooting since January 1 in the United States, which loses around 33,000 people to gun violence every year.

Source: Presstv