Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has, once again, won re-election. The win makes him the second-longest serving leader on the African continent. It also comes amidst growing violence in the country’s English-speaking region. The second- and third-place candidates claimed they were the winners shortly after the election took place. Both have since contested the official results, […]
Trial for leaders of the self-proclaimed Republic of Ambazonia in the English-speaking region of Cameroon has begun in Yaoundé. Julius Ayuk Tabe, leader of this supposed state including his nine co-accused were brought before judges under strong military escort for this closed-door hearing. John Fru Nsoh is leader for the separatist leaders. This is the […]
An American citizen was shot and killed in Cameroon on Tuesday, said Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and a church in the state. In a statement, the governor’s office said the victim, Charles Wesco, was working as a missionary in Cameroon. His brother, Timothy Wesco, serves in Indiana’s House of Representatives. Dave Halyaman, assistant pastor at […]
Southern Cameroons Acting President Dr Samuel Ikome Sako is expected to address the Ambazonian nation on the happenings in neighboring French Cameroun and the first appearance of the Ambazonian leader Sisiku Ayuk Julius Tabe in a military tribunal in Yaoundé. People in the know have hinted Cameroon Intelligence Report that Dr Sako will vow to […]
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that as many as 15,000 soldiers could be dispatched to the US-Mexican border to stop what he described as dangerous groups of immigrants. With more than 5,000 soldiers already being sent, Trump told reporters “we’ll do up to anywhere between 10 and 15,000 military personnel.” “It’s a dangerous group of […]
Cameroon officials on Tuesday released 16 opposition activists who had been detained at the weekend as they protested the re-election of longtime ruler Paul Biya in disputed October 7 polls, their party said. “All 16 were freed. I am with some of them,” Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon deputy treasurer Joseph Okala Ebode told […]
Cameroon’s defense minister warned foreigners Wednesday to be take precautions in the country’s restive English-speaking regions after an American missionary was mortally wounded amid fighting between armed separatists and soldiers. “If you must be there, immediately inform the military so we can assure your safety,” Defense Minister Joseph Beti Assomo said, adding that the northwest […]
Biya is sick and unable to attend to governance. At 85 years, Biya is a spent force with nothing more to offer Cameroonians. After 36 years of failed leadership, that he gets another mandate is not an achievement worthy of any celebration. If anything, it is a Pyrrhic victory, devoid of honour and virtue. It […]
Menendez Statement on Death of American Missionary in Cameroon NEWARK – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the killing on Tuesday of an American missionary in Cameroon. “I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of an American missionary who sacrificed his life […]
A desperate attempt by the Government of French Cameroun to cover up its responsibility for the targeted murder of an American missionary, has backfired miserably with French Cameroun confessing to the commission of other crimes. Charles Trummann Wesco was killed by a French Cameroun military sniper hit-man in the Bamenda neighbourhood of Bambili, on Tuesday, […]
