More than 30 participants met last week to evaluate the outcomes of a project aimed at reducing the illegal timber in supply chains between Cameroon and China, the world’s largest importer of timber and a key consumer, processor and re-exporter of timber products, increasingly to and from Africa. The three-year project and workshop were funded […]
US President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, announcing he will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, White House officials said Tuesday. In a statement to The Washington Post, Trump praised both Pompeo and Gina Haspel the deputy director at the CIA who will succeed Pompeo at the CIA, becoming the first woman to run […]
Nigeria plans to negotiate with Daesh-linked Boko Haram terrorists to secure the release of the schoolgirls abducted by the group in 2014 as well as last month, after discussing the plan with the United States’ visiting secretary of state. Nigeria’s President and former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari discussed the use of negotiations during a meeting […]
Kenyan opposition politicians said on Monday they had suspended their rival assembly, days after their leader said he would reconcile with President Uhuru Kenyatta and end months of post-election turmoil. Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga met on Friday and promised to re-unite the country after 100 people were killed in clashes, mainly between opposition […]
Governor of Cameroon’s North West region has in a press statement issued a renewal of the curfew imposed in the region. The decision to impose a curfew months back was to contain guerilla style attacks by separatist elements on members of the security force. A March 12 statement from the governor’s office said the regional […]
The UK’s Junior Brexit minister says his country is very close to signing an agreement with the European Union (EU) over Brexit’s transition period. Robin Walker said on Monday that the UK will adhere to EU regulations for a limited period after it leaves the bloc exactly one year from now. “We recognize how important […]
A US Army News Service article points to a dilemma faced by soldiers in northern Cameroon, who are stationed there to aid Cameroon’s fight against the militant group Boko Haram. The American soldiers are carrying out a diplomatic role that is not normally within their purview. “With no State Department personnel stationed in the area, […]
A month after armed elements under the banner of the so-called Ambazonia Republic abducted a Cameroon government official, a video of the said officer has popped up on social media. The said video showed the Nimbong Aaron Yong, a regional delegate for Social Affairs in the NorthWest pleading for his substantive minister to intervene before […]
After more than 17 months of turmoil in Cameroon’s two restive English-speaking regions, the country’s government is still in denial that it has lost control of these regions. Despite growing insecurity in the two regions, the government still maintains that there is security in the regions. The death toll has been staggering and many families […]
Cho Ayaba, AGC leader was quick to spin the news. First, he denied knowledge of his own meeting, and then shifted responsibility, blaming the Interim Government for the arrests at the meeting. But the meeting in question that saw the abduction of eight Southern Cameroons refugees in Calabar was actually organized by Dr. Ayaba. Cameroon […]
