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29, August 2023
Southern Cameroons church leaders urge return to school despite carnage of war 0
Church leaders in Cameroon’s war-ravaged English-speaking regions have launched a campaign for children to go back to school, as the Central African country prepares for the start of the 2023-2024 academic year on September 4. The campaign, dubbed “Stronger & Better Together- Back to School Message from Religious Leaders,” challenges parents to defeat fear and […]
29, August 2023
Indomitable Lions: Onana recalled to squad after spat with Rigobert Song 0
Manchester United’s new goalkeeper Andre Onana has been recalled to Cameroon’s squad some nine months after he walked out on the team during the World Cup in Qatar. Onana was named on Tuesday by coach Rigobert Song in the squad for the Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Burundi in Garoua on Sept. 12, where […]
29, August 2023
La Republique du Cameroun under Biya: A mafia state 0
Many renowned academics have opined that criminal states are a new form of dangerous state developing at catastrophic rapidity in the Sub Saharan Africa region. While state failure, military takeover and oligarchic regimes are emerging in the ECOWAS bloc, the Biya Francophone regime in Yaoundé, Cameroon which never had its origins from jihadi insurgency or […]
29, August 2023
UN says at least 183 killed in clashes in Ethiopia’s Amhara 0
At least 183 people have been killed since July in clashes in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, the United Nations said Tuesday as it appealed for the killings, violence and rights abuses to end. Tension in the northern region ratcheted up this year after the end of a devastating war in the neighbouring region of Tigray that […]
29, August 2023
Bamenda: Muslim scholar Abdulkarim detained without trial for one year 0
Amnesty International has called on the Biya Francophone regime in Yaoundé to release Muslim scholar, Abdulkarim Ali, who has been detained without trial since August 11, 2023. Marking the first year in detention for Abdulkarin Ali, who has reportedly been accused of inciting subversion of state power and having strong ties with the leaderships of […]
28, August 2023
Retired but not tired: Pro Biya Supreme Court judge found dead in car 0
Retired Justice Bisseck Dagobert has been found dead in his car in Yaoundé the nation’s capital. His lifeless body was discovered on Saturday August 26, 2023 in the Nkolbison neighborhood. Early reports suggested that the pro President Biya judge was seen in a hotel at about 2pm and was visited by a young lady. The […]
26, August 2023
Black Suffering: Americans mark 60th anniversary of ‘March on Washington’ with mass rally 0
Americans have commemorated the 60th anniversary of the “March on Washington,” a pivotal event held in the US capital in the 1960s US civil rights movement, amid spreading social injustice in an increasingly polarized US society. Tens of thousands of Americans, who gathered on Saturday in Washington, DC, to show their devotion to the ideas […]
26, August 2023
Gabon blocks internet access, imposes curfew amid election voting delays 0
Gabon’s government blocked internet access and imposed a curfew on Saturday after a general election marked by major voting delays, as the opposition cried foul over a poll they hoped would halt President Ali Bongo’s bid to extend his family’s 56-year grip on power. The Central African nation was holding presidential, legislative, and local polls […]
26, August 2023
Spanish Football Kiss: FIFA suspends federation president Rubiales 0
FIFA suspended Luis Rubiales as president of Spain’s football federation on Saturday for kissing Spanish Women’s World Cup player Jenni Hermoso on the lips, and banned him from making contact with her. “(We) decided today to provisionally suspend Mr. Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities at national and international level,” world football’s governing body said […]
30, August 2023
Gabon president under house arrest, military officers say 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, News
Gabonese President Ali Bongo is under house arrest and one of his sons has been arrested for “treason”, military officers said Wednesday, hours after announcing they had overthrown the government. “President Ali Bongo is under house arrest, surrounded by his family and doctors,” they said in a statement read out on state TV. The statement […]