Cameroon’s long serving Head of State Paul Biya popularly known as the monarch has been sworn-in to serve a seventh term, having rigged the disputed October 7 presidential polls. Biya’s acolytes declared him winner of the presidential election with 71% of votes cast, but the Francophone dominated opposition rejected the results citing electoral fraud. Maurice […]
Cameroon president-elect is scheduled to take the oath of office today, according to a program released by the National Assembly. The swearing-in ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. local time at the National Assembly in capital Yaounde, the program indicates. On Monday, the final leg of preparations for the president’s swearing-in were underway at the […]
A video link posted on Facebook on June 20 showed a man cooking human body parts in a pot over a wood fire. In Cameroon, the footage went viral. Some Facebook users said the man was a cannibal and that the video was shot in the country’s English-speaking west, where separatist insurgents are fighting to […]
Blinds were drawn at a back office of the Intercontinental Hotel one day last year, as a man known to staff as The General emptied a white cloth bag stuffed with euros. It was time to pay for one of the world’s longest-serving leaders. For weeks, several former hotel employees recalled, the five-star hotel had […]
Police in Cameroon have arrested 38 supporters of opposition leader Maurice Kamto at a rally protesting the result of last month’s presidential election, his party said Monday. Official results of the October 7 ballot declared President Paul Biya, who has ruled the west African country since 1982, the winner with 71 percent of the vote. […]
A High Court in Nigeria’s Kano State has blocked a legislative probe into alleged bribe-taking by state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the Daily Nigerian portal has reported. The order was sought by one Muhammad Zubair and granted by Justice A. T. Badamasi, who ordered an investigative committee by the state house of assembly to stay […]
President Biya is now letting the Francophone dominated Secret Service play a major part in the brutal human-rights abuses perpetrated by the Cameroon government army in Southern Cameroons. The French government of Emmanuel Macron is encouraging it to deceive international public opinion. The Biya administration is empowering Territorial Administration Minister, Paul Atanga Nji knowing full […]
Celebrated African diva and pop star Tiwa Savage made history on Sunday as she became the first Nigerian female artist to win the ‘Best African Act’ award at the MTV Europe Music Awards (MTV EMAs). Tiwa was up against stiff competition from fellow Nigerian act Davido, South Africa’s Distruction Boyz and Shekinah, Kenya’s Nyashinski and […]
Armed groups in Cameroon’s restive English speaking regions have been attacking and chopping off fingers of workers of the country’s second largest employer, the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), in what has been described as renewed efforts to destabilize the central African state ahead of the Tuesday inauguration of President-elect Paul Biya, who has been in […]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Iran will break the sanctions imposed by the United States on Tehran as well as on countries that do business with it, shortly after a round of anti-Iran sanctions by America took effect. Speaking at a meeting with the directors and deputies of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance […]
