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16, March 2017
Anglophone Crisis: Biya playing for time with Bilingual Commission 2
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
Southern Cameroon groups fighting for an independent state have reacted to the appointment of members into the so-called National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism in Cameroon by President Biya. The exiled leaders of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium have appealed to Southern Cameroonians to isolate the Biya regime and its agents such as […]
15, March 2017
Anglophone Crisis: Breaking the stalemate 2
by soter • Editorial, Headline News
The Anglophone crisis that has rattled the government to its core seems to be a nightmare that will not go away anytime soon. The desperate government that has been accused by the country’s English-speaking minority of marginalization and total neglect of the English-speaking region has been scrambling for solutions to douse the fire that many […]
15, March 2017
Anglophone Crisis: Synod Clerk says arrests, torture, high handedness and threats to life won’t solve the problem 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
The Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, Rev Babila Fochang has said that university students cannot go back to school and study smoothly without internet in this present generation. In his recent homily, the Right Rev. Babila Fochang observed that the Church as a body will never play games with the future of […]
15, March 2017
Bamenda: Corrupt Government Delegate attacks the Consortium 5
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
The frustrated and corrupt Government Delegate to the Bamenda City Council, Vincent NDUMU NJI, has urged traders in Bamenda major markets not to respect ghost town days but to go about their usual activities. The man who attempted to claim a building at T-Junction belonging to a late business tycoon, made the call on Tuesday […]
15, March 2017
Federation (Assimilation) or Restoration? 1
by soter • Editorial, Headline News
The assimilation of Ambazonia (Southern Cameroons) into Cameroun Republic by France has been the strategy all along. The two state federation that the people of the then Southern Cameroons voted for in the plebiscite that brought the two together has never been in consideration. But assimilation has failed, and separation and restoration of an independent […]
15, March 2017
Cameroun Football: FECAFOOT suspends three referees 1
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Sports
The Secretary General of the Cameroon Football Federation, FECAFOOT has suspended indefinitely the officials of the match that opposed Tonnere kalara club (Tkc) and Botafogo of Douala from all football activities. The encounter was played at the Military Stadium in Yaoundé over the week end. The three Cameroonian referees suspended by the Cameroon football governing […]
15, March 2017
Ethiopia: Death toll from landslide rises to 82 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, News
The death toll from a landslide at Ethiopia’s largest rubbish dump reached 82 on Tuesday as the country’s parliament declared three days of national mourning, a government minister said. Communications Minister Negeri Lencho said, rescuers are still searching for survivors and victims’ bodies. Part of the largest hill at the Koshe rubbish dump in the […]
14, March 2017
Nigeria: Reform of Internal Security System 0
Demands for increased operational effectiveness in internal security operations in Nigeria has grown in the past decade due to increasing level of public perception of insecurity. Growing terror campaign since 2010 has further worsened calls for overhaul and restructuring in Nigerian Policing and Law enforcement system. Several reforms later, Nigerian security environment is now populated […]
14, March 2017
Anglophone Crisis: Fire ravages Bamenda Food Market 0
Some 10 shops at the Bamenda Food market in Southern Cameroons have been reduced to ashes following a fire incident which occurred early Tuesday March 14, 2017. Cameroun Info.Net reported that bags of rice, ‘garri’, sugar, soap and other goods vanished in the flames whose origin is yet to be determined by security agents. Locals […]
16, March 2017
Twelve points for the New African Union Commission Chairperson 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, News
Moussa Faki Mahamat, the new chair of the African Union Commission (AUC), takes office in mid-March as the continent faces its worst spate of humanitarian crises since the 1990s. The most alarming is in the Lake Chad basin where more than eleven million people need emergency aid. In Somalia, 6.2 million (almost half the population) […]