The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, on Tuesday arrived in Kinshasa to begin probe into allegations of deadly violence. The ICC said, the visit follows requests into crimes against humanity in this Central African nation. Bensouda is scheduled to meet with government officials and judicial institutions, and address a press conference on Thursday. In January, […]
A look at the data behind the headlines amid the worsening crackdown by the army of 86-year-old Cameroon president Paul Biya in Southern Cameroons tells a pathetic story. The UN under very strong French influence has crafted a response and each time the Ambazonian issue is raised up with disturbing evidence, the Antonio Guterres’ gang […]
Hiribae Mame stood waist-deep in water outside her wrecked house in eastern Kenya, one of around 200,000 people forced to flee by weeks of floods, landslides and heavy rains. Kenya’s Red Cross estimates at least 100 have also died in the downpours since early April, a humanitarian disaster that it says needs emergency funding. “I […]
US President Donald Trump says the date and location of his upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be announced within days. “We want to get peace,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “We’re setting up meetings right now and I think it’s probably going to be announced over the […]
At least 24 people have lost their lives in suspected Boko Haram bomb attacks in and around a mosque in Nigeria’s eastern province of Adamawa, police and officials say. According to provincial police spokesman, Othman Abubakar, two terrorists, suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist outfit, detonated their explosive belts at a […]
I was going through my archives the other day. I discovered that is exactly what the French did in Bamileke land. They would circle entire communities to prevent any escape and then burn down entire villages. Then they would seize those trying to escape and subject them to all forms of torture. The French pleaded […]
Forty African land force chiefs represented their countries at the sixth African Land Forces Summit (ALFS) in Abuja, Nigeria, between 16 and 19 April. Co-hosted by the Nigerian Army and U.S. Army Africa, ALFS is a weeklong seminar designed to bring together land force chiefs from nations across Africa to discuss and develop cooperative solutions […]
US President Donald Trump says his approach towards the Iran nuclear deal will not affect talks with North Korea. Trump made the comment alongside Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the White House on Monday, when asked if violation of the internationally-backed deal would send the wrong message to Pyongyang. “I think it sends the right […]
Cross River State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, yesterday, alerted the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of illegal registration by Cameroonian refugees in the state. The state Comptroller of NIS, Mr. Felix Uche, made this disclosure when he led his management team on a courtesy visit to the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Frankland […]
An Australian court has ruled that the Vatican’s finance chief, Cardinal George Pell, stand trial on historical sex offenses, making him the highest-ranking Catholic priest ever to be indicted on such charges. Melbourne magistrate Belinda Wallington said at a hearing on Tuesday that she was “satisfied” there was enough evidence for the case to proceed […]
