The crisis that has thrust Cameroon into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons is unfortunately getting worse by the day. The country that was known as an oasis of peace in a desert of chaos has itself become the epitome of chaos. Human rights abuses are legion. The country’s English-speaking population is being depleted […]
Cameroon’s ageing president has called his first cabinet meeting since 2015. Paul Biya, who has ruled the country since 1982, has called his council of ministers to Unity Palace, news agency Reuters said. However, it is not known what they will be talking about at the closed door meetings. Reuters suggests little discussion is expected, […]
Liberia’s Ministry of Health has revealed it is fighting to control an outbreak of Lassa fever which has killed two people since the beginning of March. A spokesman told the BBC the two confirmed victims were a 57-year old woman and a 44-year-old man. The two cases happend in the central city of Gbarnga and […]
US President Donald Trump has reportedly decided to fire National Security Adviser Herbert Raymond McMaster and is actively involved in consultations for his potential replacements. The Washington Post reported the news on Thursday, citing five people with knowledge of the plan. Trump, however, prefers to execute the move in a lengthy process, because he wants to […]
Ahmad Ahmad from Madagascar celebrates one year as CAF president Friday having caused a shock last March by ending the 29-year reign of Cameroonian Issa Hayatou. It has been a hectic time for the previously largely unknown Malagasy with plenty of changes to the African football landscape and numerous meetings with heads of state. After […]
Cameroon’s long-ruling President Paul Biya today convoked a rare cabinet meeting and vowed to push ahead with a military crackdown on English-speaking separatists in the francophone country. The west African country has had a tortuous colonial history that saw it pass from German rule to French and British hands and the anglophone minority complain of being marginalised by the […]
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, on Thursday held his first cabinet meeting since 2015 and on the back of a recent reshuffle. The event took place at the Unity Palace (presidency) in the capital Yaounde. According to a statement on the website of the presidency, Biya’s address to his appointees centered around security, decentralization, upcoming elections […]
Mosques in parts of the Rwandan capital have been banned from using loudspeakers for the call to prayer, just weeks after the government closed hundreds of churches in Kigali. The ban affects Nyarugenge sector, which is home to some of the Kigali’s largest mosques. The residents reportedly complained that the calls, made five times a […]
Spanish police searched the seat of the Catalan regional government in Barcelona on Thursday as part of an investigation into how last year’s banned independence referendum was funded. A Civil Guard spokesperson said the operation targeted the “citizens assistance office” and the offices of the grassroots separatist group Omnium Cultural, whose leader was jailed last […]
The measures taken by the so-called new Minister of Territorial Administration to stifle the Southern Cameroons uprising and quest for an independent state is shocking even to the Francophone political elites. Indeed, Paul Atanga Nji, appointed Minister of Territorial Administration, on March 2, prescribed rapid intelligence gathering to all French Cameroun administrative authorities. The MINAT […]
