The Cameroon government has reportedly banned the Catholic Church from extending humanitarian aid to persons fleeing the security crisis in the restive Anglophone regions. According to a journalists with Equinoxe TV, a renown priest had been questioned for distributing foodstuff to people stranded by the ongoing crisis. “I am reliably informed that church leaders have […]
The United Nations is considering a dramatic u-turn on its stance in the ongoing Southern Cameroons crisis as military operations by the Biya regime continues to push Cameroon into a civil war, Cameroon Concord News has learned from diplomatic sources in New York and in Paris. Our sources hinted that the move is being orchestrated […]
The trial began Tuesday of a family who sued the Los Angeles Police Department for the wrongful death of their family member. The family of Charly Keunang, 42, claim officers used excessive force and discriminated against the Cameroon native. They also said the officers failed to de-escalate a confrontation that specialized Skid Row officers are […]
The former chief executive of Volkswagen has been indicted in a federal court in the US city of Detroit over diesel emissions scandal. Martin Winterkorn is charged with three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act, court papers showed Thursday. The indictment brings the American criminal case […]
Paris witnessed multiple rallies as students opposing regionalisation of educational services expressed solidarity with railway workers protesting French President Emmanuel Macron ‘s latest set of reforms. “Higher education must be accessible to everyone and the government that says that there is a lack of means is hypocritical,” president of the National Union of High School […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Adamawa Command, says it has commenced intensive surveillance on major routes along the Nigeria-Cameroon border. NDLEA said the move was sequel to the Federal Government ban on the production and importation of codeine into the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Federal Ministry of […]
Morocco has severed diplomatic ties with Iran over Tehran’s support for the Polisario Front, a Western Sahara independence movement, the Moroccan foreign minister said on Tuesday. Morocco has claimed Western Sahara since colonial power Spain left in 1975. But Polisario fought a guerrilla war for independence for the Sahrawi people until a United Nations-backed ceasefire […]
Journalists across West and Central Africa are facing intimidation and harassment and being targeted with arrest and assault for doing their work while media outlets are often closed down and the Internet journalists rely on to undertake their work shut down, Amnesty International said on World Press Freedom Day as it called on governments in […]
Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, called on Kenyans to forgive him for ‘damaging the unity of the country in any way’ during last year’s heated and contested presidential elections. The president was delivering the first state of the nation address in his second and final term of office. ‘‘If there was anything I said last year […]
A priest in Cameroon’s Northwest region has been released by unknown gunmen after about two days in detention, Catholic Church leaders have disclosed. The Bamenda Archdiocese confirmed that Rev. Father William Niba had been abducted in the town of Belo. He was the principal of St. Bede’s College. His arrest is said to be connected […]
