At least 18 people have been killed and over 80 others wounded after suspected Boko Haram terrorists staged several attacks in Nigeria’s restive northeast. Officials said Monday that the militant forces had attacked a military base in the city of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, and two surrounding villages overnight. A gun battle broke […]
A new poll shows that only 1 in 10 African Americans think the United States has achieved racial equality 50 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, the leader in the US civil rights movement from 1954 through 1968. Three-quarters of blacks said there has been little or no progress on fair treatment by […]
Basile Atangana Kouna, Cameroon’s former water and energy minister and other top government officials held over an anti-corruption crackdown have been shown in a video commemorating Easter in prison. Journalists tweeted screengrabs of Basile and others – Nguini Effa, Mendo Ze and Jena Willian Solo – all in suit taking part in mass on the […]
For the past three weeks, an encampment of activists from Ambazonia, the English-speaking territory also known as Southern Cameroon, has been holding vigil outside the Nigerian Embassy in South Africa. The purpose is to demand the immediate release of leaders in their struggle with the French neo-colonial regime in Cameroon, and to shine a light […]
The FIFA Referees Committee has selected 36 referees and 63 assistant referees, representing 46 different countries, for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. Out of the number, 16 match officials are from Africa. The contingent comprises six referees and ten assistants. Preparations for the road to Russia kicked off in September 2014 not only for the 32 participating teams, […]
More than 1,000 people gathered in the Spanish town of Cambrils on Saturday to demand the freedom of Catalan`s political prisoners. Campaigners chanted as they carried banners of imprisoned politicians through the streets of the town some 117 km from Barcelona. The act follows a series of demonstrations all over Catalonia and several other European […]
More than 4000 Southern Cameroonians have so far been arrested by troops and security forces loyal to the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime in Yaoundé since French Cameroun declared a war against the English speaking population in West Cameroon. Biya’s surprise war declaration came after more than a year of anti- French Cameroun government protests […]
The circulation of fake Penicillin –V tablets in South West Cameroon is responsible for the fake penicillin circulation in Nigeria, according to the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN). The president of the society, Ahmed Yakasai, said it is alerting the general public to the threat posed by Nigeria’s close proximity to Cameroon. “Nigerians, especially pharmacists and […]
Some Chinese miners taking advantage of the vagueness in the allocation of mining licences and the laxity of the administration in Cameroon are illegally engaging in semi-mechanized artisanal mining leading to destruction of the environment and many deaths. Sidonie Maboue pulls her hands out of the muddy water to nurse her eight-month-old baby. Sitting on […]
Botswana’s president Ian Khama has officially stepped down. The retired army general exited on Saturday handing the diamond-rich country to vice-president, Mokgweetsi Masisi. Khama, a 65-year old bachelor, is known as a straight talker having publicly criticised leaders including US President Donald Trump for an alleged slur against African countries and former Zimbabwe’s president Robert […]
