In less than two months, the Southern Cameroons crisis that has put the country in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons will be two years old and despite criticism by the international community, the Yaounde government’s ferocious brutality is still going on. Indeed, there is no sign that the government is thinking of any […]
The Southern Cameroons Interim Government has strongly condemned recent killings by the Francophone army in Buea, Mamfe, Ekona, Ndop and Muea. A Cameroon government military attack ordered by defense minister Beti Assomo killed scores of people throughout Southern Cameroons. The Ambazonian Secretary of Communications, Hon. Chris Anu described the killings by French Cameroun troops as […]
A fact-finding mission under the direct supervision of Acting President Samuel Sako has revealed that French Cameroun’s ongoing military aggression against the people of Southern Cameroons has put hundreds of Ambazonian women and children at risk of death, starvation and disease both in the Cross River State in Nigeria and on ground zero. The mission […]
Incumbent president Emmerson Mnangagwa has been announced as winner of Zimbabwe’s July 30 presidential elections. The septuagenarian polled 50.8% of votes as against 44.3% by his closest challenger Nelson Chamisa. Final results Chamisa: 2,147,437 – 44.3% Mnangagwa: 2,460,463 – 50.8% Key update: With one Province left to be declared to have a final figure on […]
Italy has seen an explosion in racist attacks in recent months, and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini stands accused of inciting a climate of hatred with speeches on migrants. However, many argue the roots of the problem go much deeper. Italy has seen a steady rise in increasingly severe racist violence. “There have been 33 assaults of […]
Two years ago, when Anglophone lawyers and teachers called for a protest against the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime, there were few signs that they would have an impact. More than two years later after the protests transformed into a war, one that is yet to draw in the international community, it seemed a matter […]
Former Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba’s journey from convicted war criminal to a hero with his convictions overturned mirrors the volatility in the troubled heart of Africa. When the news of Jean-Pierre Bemba’s arrival home on Wednesday broke, the crowd outside the Democratic Republic of Congo’s main international airport erupted with joy. Wearing T-shirts and headscarves emblazoned with Bemba’s image, […]
Sidonie Maboue pulled her hands out of the muddy water and sat down on a piece of fabric next to the bags of gravel that she and three of her 12 children filled that day. “This gravel will be crushed, then sifted,” said the 45-year-old widow as she prepared to nurse her 8-month-old baby who […]
South Africa’s MTN Group is reported to have put on hold a $750 million expansion plan in the Iranian broadband market in the face of US sanctions which are about to take effect on Monday. Africa’s biggest wireless networks group, which has a 49 percent stake in national operator Irancell, had agreed last year to […]
