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3, June 2016
Cameroon Mourns a Statesman 0
Chief Michael Tabong Kima: The Silent Diplomat Goes Home The country lost a true patriot and statesman in the person of Chief Michael Tabong Kima, foremost traditional ruler, quintessential diplomat and humanist. The passing of Ambassador Kima, as he was fondly called, is a great national loss; but it is also an occasion for the […]
2, June 2016
Ivory Coast: Attempted rape of former first lady filmed 0
Ivory Coast’s former first lady Simone Gbagbo says she suffered attempted rape while in detention back in 2011, and claims French soldiers deployed in the country also filmed the attempted rape. During the first day of her trial on Tuesday, Simone denied a court’s charges of crimes against humanity during the 2010 wave of violence, saying, […]
2, June 2016
Germany: MPs passes Armenian genocide motion 0
The German parliament has approved a resolution recognizing as genocide the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a century ago, in a move which risks damaging ties between Berlin and Ankara. On Thursday, the lower house of the German legislature, Bundestag, voted overwhelmingly for the motion, which is symbolically significant and has no legal effect. “With […]
2, June 2016
Cameroon: Higher Education harmonizing courses 0
Heads of Departments of the Faculties of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences, Law and Political Sciences and Economic and Management Sciences met yesterday, May 30, 2016 to discuss ways of putting in place a standard base on which the system of studies and educational programmes in these faculties in all State Universities will be built. […]
2, June 2016
Photo exhibition in honor of late Minister Peter Agbor Tabi 0
A photo exhibition in honour of the late Deputy Secretary General at the Presidency took place at the International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC). It is said a picture is worth a thousand words. The over two dozen photos exhibited in lecture hall AB2 of the International Relations Institute of Cameroon, yesterday June 1, 2016, in […]
2, June 2016
Cameroon: Mysterious snake at residence of former Prime Minister 0
Scores of panic-stricken inhabitants of Mvog-Atangana Mballa neighbourhood in Yaounde on May 29, 2016, thronged the home of the late former Prime Minister of Cameroon, Charles Asale. This followed news that a mysterious snake had been noticed in a tall tree inside the compound. The snake was reportedly spotted at about 3 pm by some […]
2, June 2016
Cameroon: Minister Hamadou Moustapha calls for divine protection against Boko Haram 0
The Minister in charge of Special Duties at the Presidency, Hamadou Moustapha, has declared the need to pray for the country which is a victim of insurgency by the terrorist group, Boko Haram. “In spite of the bravery of our Defence Forces, bravery alone does not suffice. We absolutely need Divine protection,” he told the […]
2, June 2016
African fashion models taking over the runway 0
While numbers are still low, the percentage of non-white models has actually increased from 2015.In 2015, 84.7% of of all the models featured in spring 2016’s fashion adverts were white compared to 78.2% this year. Of these models we are starting to notice an increasing number of high fashion models from Africa – many from Angola and South Sudan in […]
2, June 2016
Cameroon honors petty traders 0
Ten traders were crowned ambassadors in various sectors of petty trading. They received trophies, attestations and encouragement envelops for endurance, stamina, persistence as puff-balls vendors, blind braid teacher, deaf kid coach, lame craftsmen, outstanding building constructor, blind craftsmen, and community hope givers from Big Earth. Speaking during the award in Bonapriso recently, the President of […]
3, June 2016
Nigeria: Shell and Agip pipelines blown up in Niger Delta 0
by soter • News, Nigeria
Militants have blown up strategic gas and crude pipelines belonging to Shell and Agip as part of a campaign that has cut Nigeria’s oil production in half. A hitherto unknown militant group, calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers, said it had dynamited the trunkline linking the Dutch-British Shell company’s Bonny terminal and the Brass export terminal of the Italian […]