A major American newspaper based in New York City has mocked US President Donald Trump on the country’s Independence Day by depicting him as a clown. The New York Daily News July 4 cover features an edited image showing Trump in full clown makeup, wearing a shattered gold crown. “The clown who plays king can’t […]
President Biya is implementing an aggressive and destructive policy in Southern Cameroons. The 85 year old dictator has precipitated an armed conflict against the English speaking community of the country which is getting worse. He is pushing the Francophone dominated army against Southern Cameroonians and he is opening and maintaining military bases in Southern Cameroons […]
Tens of thousands of survivors of Kenya’s worst floods in recent years are living on the brink with barely enough food to eat two months after the disaster, aid workers warned on Wednesday, calling on authorities to provide increased funding and support. Incessant heavy rainfall in March and April caused dams and rivers in parts […]
A heat wave in Quebec has killed 33 people in the past week as high summer temperatures scorched eastern Canada, officials said Thursday. 18 of the dead were reported in the provincial capital Montreal, according to regional public health director Mylene Drouin. She added that the majority of the victims in the city were men aged between 53 and 85 living […]
Djibouti on Thursday launched the first phase of Africa’s biggest free trade zone, seeking to capitalize on its strategic position on one of the world’s busiest trade routes. At ceremonies in the capital, President Ismael Omar Guelleh hailed the scheme as the culmination of infrastructure projects “boosting Djibouti’s place in international trade and commerce”. The […]
Cameroon is urging children in the eastern part of the country to stop leaving school to work in the gold industry. The campaign was launched after a report said 74 people have been killed in mine accidents this year, a majority of them of school age. A group of five Cameroonian teenagers and a Central […]
President Biya should be arrested and tried as a war criminal over the killings in Southern Cameroons, according to a survey conducted by Cameroon Concord News Group. Hundreds of Ambazonians who took part in the survey in Bamenda, Buea, Mamfe, Mundemba, Kumba, Wum, Muyuka, Tiko, Ndop and Bali said Mr. Biya is knowingly misleading international […]
Baka Pygmies in eastern Cameroon are protesting the destruction of their forest habitat by European and Chinese logging companies. The Pygmies say the logging companies reap huge profits and leave little in return. Forty-five-year old Paul Ongwana talks through a bullhorn as he moves from one Baka Pygmy settlement to the next in Magou village, […]
African heads of state have pledged to coordinate efforts to improve the continent’s security and defeat jihadist organisations, particularly in Nigeria and the Sahel region, during talks on Monday at the 31st African Union summit held in Mauritania’s capital. French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Nouakchott on Monday to discuss the battle against Islamic extremism […]
The UK counter-terrorism police have launched an investigation into what they say is another attack on British citizens with the Russian nerve agent Novichok, the same poison that was used in March against Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal. Neil Basu, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer, told reporters on Wednesday that two British citizens were critically ill […]
