What happens to Africa after the mud walls of dictatorship come tumbling down and the palaces of illusion behind those walls vanish? Will Africa be like Humpty Dumpty who “had a great fall” and could not be put back together by “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men”? What happens to the dictators? […]
Cameroon’s governance and security problems for many years have attracted little outside attention. But the country now faces violence in three regions: the Far North, where Boko Haram continues to mount small-scale attacks, as well as the Northwest and Southwest, where an incipient Anglophone insurgency emerged in 2017. Added to this ambient insecurity is a […]
At least 31 people have been killed in two separate bomb attacks carried out at crowded spots in northeastern Nigeria. Militia leader Babakura Kolo said on Sunday that the bombings in the town of Damboa in Borno state a day earlier targeted people returning from celebrations of the holy Muslim occasion of Eid al-Fitr. All […]
France’s defender Benjamin Pavard (L) marks Australia’s forward Mathew Leckie during the 2018 World Cup Group C football match between France and Australia at the Kazan Arena in Kazan, Russia, on June 16, 2018. (Photo by AFP) France’s players hug France’s midfielder Paul Pogba (R) to celebrate after scoring their second goal during the […]
France says it is close to reaching an agreement with Germany regarding European Union (EU) reforms championed by French President Emmanuel Macron. “An agreement is close at hand,” French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Twitter late Saturday, after reviewing the final details of the deal with his German counterpart, Olaf Scholz, in the northern […]
The second match on Sunday at the World Cup features the reigning world champions. Will Germany retain the World Cup in Russia this summer? The Germans start their campaign with a tricky test against Mexico. El Tri are known for getting out of their World Cup groups, only to exit the competition in the second […]
Brasseries du Cameroun and its subsidiaries are donating huge sums of money to support the Biya Francophone government in its genocidal war currently going on in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia/Southern Cameroons, Cameroon Intelligence Report has learned. The senior managers of Brasseries have also personally made financial donations to the French Cameroun army via the […]
Russian traffic officials say a taxi has ran into a crowd of people in central Moscow injuring seven individuals as the city hosts thousands of tourists during the World Cup 2018 matches. Interfax news agency cited a source as saying on Saturday that the driver was drunk at the time of the incident, which occurred […]
Congolese authorities cancelled the passport of opposition leader Moise Katumbi, his office said in a statement on Friday, just days after the exiled politician gathered thousands for an opposition rally in the capital Kinshasa. The statement said Katumbi noticed his passport had been cancelled on Wednesday while going through customs in Belgium. It said Katumbi […]
For years, the Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement (CPDM) of President Biya has been described as a one man show with the 85 year old as the Right Royal Chairman. In the words of some senior Cameroon political commentators, the ruling CPDM party has always been fractious. Yes, the CPDM party has always had internal divisions […]
