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15, June 2023
Football: Messi mania at fever pitch as Argentina face Australia in Beijing 0
by soter • Headline News, Sports, World
Messi mania gripped a sweltering Beijing ahead of a sell-out friendly on Thursday evening between world champions Argentina and Australia in the Chinese capital. All eyes were on Lionel Messi, arguably the greatest footballer of all time, who lifted the World Cup for the Albiceleste in December. Thousands of Chinese fans braved temperatures of nearly […]
14, June 2023
Grammy Awards: Africa finally gets its own category 0
by soter • Entertainment, Headline News, Life
The American music industry’s Grammy Awards announced on Tuesday that they will be awarding a gramophone to the best African music performance at their next edition, a further sign of their quest for diversity and a consecration for the genre. The new award covers a wide range of styles, from Afrobeat and Afro-fusion to Kwassa […]
14, June 2023
CPDM Crime Syndicate: MTN says asset seizure in Cameroon threatens operations 0
by soter • Africa, Business, Headline News
South African mobile operator MTN Group (MTNJ.J) said on Wednesday that its Cameroon operations were threatened by the seizure of its bank accounts in the country as part of a dispute in which it plays no part. MTN Cameroon’s accounts with more than 14 billion CFA francs ($22 million) have been frozen by Cameroon court […]
14, June 2023
Cameroon’s internet domain name among the most popular in Africa 0
by soter • Africa, Business, Headline News
Cameroon’s internet domain name is “one of the most popular” in Africa, commented Ebot Ebot Enaw, MD of the National Agency for Information Technology and Communication (Antic), last week during the opening of the 3rd edition of the National Forum on the Domain Name System (DNS). The event was held in Bertoua, in the East […]
14, June 2023
Italy bids farewell to former PM and billionaire tycoon Silvio Berlusconi 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, News
Silvio Berlusconi was honored Wednesday with a state funeral in Milan’s Duomo cathedral and a day of national mourning, as his legacy — positive or negative — was being hotly debated among Italians. Tens of thousands of people outside the Duomo and within erupted in applause as a sign of respect as Berlusconi’s flower-draped casket […]
14, June 2023
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Yerima vows no retreat in dealing with La Republique 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
The Vice President of the exiled Ambazonia Interim Government has insisted that the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia will not back down from ensuring that English speaking Cameroonians gain their independence despite the brutal French Cameroun military operations in the Southern Cameroons homeland. In a telephone conversation with Cameroon Concord News London Bureau […]
14, June 2023
Greece: Dozens drown in deadliest migrant shipwreck 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, News
At least 59 migrants drowned early on Wednesday and more were feared missing when their boat capsized and sank off Greece, the country’s coast guard said. By midday, 104 were rescued, but it remained unclear how many were on board when the vessel went under, authorities said. The shipwreck was the deadliest off Greece this […]
13, June 2023
Cameroon mourns the loss of opposition leader John Fru Ndi 0
by soter • Breaking News, Cameroon, Headline News, News
The founder and long-standing leader of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), John Fru Ndi, passed away last night in Yaoundé. His death comes as a great loss to the country’s political landscape and marks the end of an era. In a statement released early this Tuesday, June 13, Joshua Osih, the party’s first vice-president, announced […]
13, June 2023
SDF: John Fru Ndi Dies at 81 0
by soter • Breaking News, Cameroon, Headline News, News
Veteran Cameroonian opposition leader John Fru Ndi, who for decades fought to topple long-standing president Paul Biya at the ballot box, has died aged 81, his party said. Fru Ndi, who dominated the opposition in the Central African country for a generation and was arrested and kidnapped for his politics, had been suffering from a […]
15, June 2023
Target killings of Francophone army soldiers ‘key’ to bringing Yaoundé to its knees 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
A senior adviser to the Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Government has lauded recent target killings against Cameroon government military personnel deployed to Southern Cameroons, saying the growing power of the hit-and-run tactics now being applied by restoration groups in Ground Zero is the key to bringing the occupying French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé […]