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29, March 2017
Trump’s funding request for wall, military must wait 0
by soter • Headline News, Politics, World
US President Donald Trump’s funding request for building a wall on the Mexican border as well as military activities has to wait by later this year, Senate Republican leaders say. Missouri Republican Senator Roy Blunt argued Tuesday that the new president’s supplemental funding request would complicate the spending bill lawmakers already have to deal with. […]
29, March 2017
Nelson Mandela’s closest colleague in the anti-apartheid struggle dies aged 87 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, News
Celebrated South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, a Robben Island prisoner and one of Nelson Mandela’s closest colleagues in the struggle against white rule, died early Tuesday aged 87. Kathrada was among those tried and jailed alongside Mandela in the Rivonia trial in 1964, which drew worldwide attention to the brutalities of the apartheid regime. […]
29, March 2017
West Cameroon Crisis: Fru Ndi and the SDF should go and go now 5
by soter • Editorial, Headline News
The crisis in Southern Cameroons has finally exposed the SDF Chairman Ni John Fru Ndi as a collaborator and not an opposition to the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime. The SDF leadership held a National Executive Committee meeting in Yaoundé to demonstrate to their French donors that the party is against secession. The barons of […]
29, March 2017
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Buea University Campus remains deserted 1
by soter • Education, Headline News, Life
The Buea University campus is still completely dead after calls from the National Union of Higher Education Teachers demanding students to return to school. A certain Dr. Abangma who had moonlighted with the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium made the appeal after a senior aide to President Biya promised him the post of Rector of […]
29, March 2017
Bamenda bleeds as Francophone security agents unleash terror: A Randy Joe Sa’ah Azeng Production 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
These are horrible times for Bamenda inhabitants. Arbitrary Arrests, Torture and Extortions are plentiful in their daily menu served by gendarmes, police and soldiers. Ask those who have been arrested in recent weeks and taken to the gendarmerie premises Up Station. Many (whose names are being withheld for fear of further victimization) have recounted horrendous […]
28, March 2017
Anglophone Crisis: Counting the cost 0
by soter • Editorial, Headline News
It is only five months since the unfortunate drama between the government and the Anglophone minority has been playing out and the adverse consequences are already far-reaching. When it all started, not many people thought it would last for more than a week, but five months after, the government is yet to reestablish its authority […]
28, March 2017
Malaria kills 150 in Zimbabwe after heavy rains 0
by soter • Headline News, Health, Life
At least 150 people have died of malaria in Zimbabwe over the past two months, with nearly 90,000 infections recorded, a government official said Monday, blaming the upsurge on intense rains. “We have seen increased cases of malaria due to the more rains received this year that increased the breeding grounds for mosquitoes,” Joseph Mberikunashe, […]
28, March 2017
Ex-cashier of Credit Foncier Buea accused of manipulating client accounts 0
by soter • Africa, Business, Headline News
Credit Foncier du Cameroun (CFC) has sued a former employee for alleged misappropriation of the sum of 157 million FCFA. The money in dispute was reportedly siphoned from the Buea branch in the South West region by Rose Ngala Mokate, who until March 2015 held the position of cashier. Lawyers representing the bank revealed that […]
28, March 2017
When the Pope receives a President like Paul Biya who is 84 years old, has been in power for almost 35 years— what does he say? 0
by soter • Headline News, Religion, World
Rev. Father Ludovic Lado has condemned the Rectors Conference of Italian Universities and the Vatican for the red carpet treatment accorded the evil butcher of Yaoundé, President Paul Biya. In a strongly worded academic article entitled “Diplomacy as Hypocrisy: the Biya system in Rome and the Vatican”, the Cameroonian prelate expressed his disapproval of the […]
29, March 2017
Financial scandal rocks the Indomitable Lions, Head Coach says corruption so profound that even aid granted to the country by international partners rarely reaches their recipients 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Sports
After winning the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon, Cameroon football has gone back to its old habits rocked by scandals. In a statement that has sparked controversy and embarrassed the Yaoundé regime, the trainer of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, Hugo Broos has told the world that the players did not eat at noon […]