Austria says it plans to close at least seven mosques and expel dozens of imams and their families in a crackdown on what it calls “political Islam” and foreign funding of religious groups. Interior Minister of the right-wing government Herbert Kickl announced the plan on Friday, saying up to 60 Turkish-funded imams could be deported. […]
The French government has never denied its involvement in Cameroon politics. It is an open secret that French Commissioner Roland Pre toppled the government of Andre Marie Mbida and installed Ahmadou Ahidjo who slaughtered thousands of Bamilekes and Bassas during the uprising against the French in the late 50s and early 60s. French diplomats in […]
Karl Toko Ekambi has now officially joined Villarreal (or, as the good-bye note from Angers put it, the sous-marin jaune, which I rather enjoyed), and becomes the latest in a recent string of African internationals to wear the Villarreal shirt. He will be, as far as I can tell, the second Cameroon international to play for Villarreal. The first […]
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance on Thursday launched its election policy document. The party promises to implement diverse and innovative polices that will transform Zimbabwe into a middle income economy by 2023. Party president Nelson Chamisa launched the policy document dubbed Sustainable and Modern Agenda for Real Transformation (SMART) under the theme […]
US President Donald Trump says that everything was “ready to go” for his summit next week with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Trump made the remarks Thursday as he welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House for preparatory talks before the summit. “The summit is all ready to go,” Trump told reporters. […]
Anglophone secessionists have released videos of a policeman they abducted in Cameroon on Tuesday. Police inspector Diguengue Patrice from Mayo-Danay in Cameroon’s far north, who was abducted by gunmen between Njikom and Belo localities in the Northwest region where activists have been waging a war against security forces, is heard pleading with the government of President […]
Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea have reopened their border six months after it was sealed to stop the movement of armed groups that fought to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has led Equatorial Guinea since 1979. Strict controls remain on movement across the border. It is a busy Wednesday morning at the main bus station […]
The regime in Yaoundé has recruited a cream of Southern Cameroonians serving with the private sector in French Cameroon to help destroy the credibility of the exiled Ambazonian Interim Government (IG) in the USA. Cameroon Intelligence Report has gotten intelligence that independent Southern Cameroonians holding top positions in multinationals in Douala and Yaoundé have been […]
Marc Scott Foé, son of former Cameroonian international Marc-Vivien Foé who died in 2003 in Gerland, was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment by the Assize Court of Lyon in France. Charged for “armed robbery and kidnapping”, Marc Scott Foe was tried as part of an aggression of a Roman Catholic priest in November 2015 in […]
Police raided France’s economy ministry Wednesday as part of a conflict of interest probe into President Emmanuel Macron’s chief of staff Alexis Kohler, a source close to the case said. The search operations in several offices were carried out by officers from the BRDE economic crimes unit, the source said. Kohler previously worked in the […]
