The US military has reportedly slashed its combat operations at Turkey’s Incirlik air base, and is contemplating permanent cutbacks there amid rising tensions between the two NATO allies over Washington’s steadfast support for the Kurdish militants operating at Turkish doorstep in Syria. Citing unnamed US officials, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the drawdown stem from the […]
The duties attributed to Minister Atanga Nji from when he was sourced from his serious criminal gang underground world where he was a crime kingpin to join the French Cameroun crime syndicate was that of the Secretary-General of its National Security Council, Minister of Special Duties at the Presidency and a Section President of the […]
The judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), sitting in a plenary session have elected Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji of Nigeria as President of the Court for a three-year term with immediate effect. Judge Robert Fremr from the Czech Republic was elected First Vice-President with Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut of France as Second Vice-President. ‘I […]
The UK Labour Party has managed to open a significant lead over the ruling Conservative Party in terms of popularity, a new poll shows, raising opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn’s chances for replacing Prime Minister Theresa May. The survey, released by Survation on Saturday, found that Labour was ahead 44 percent to 37 percent. The two […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the African Union Chairperson and President of Rwanda Paul Kagame urging him to suspend Cameroon from the African Union (AU) for torturing 47 political activists. In its letter to AU, the group appealed to Kagame to “urgently call an Extraordinary Session of the […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Western allegations pertaining to the Syrian government launching chemical attacks on terrorists-held areas are “fake news.” Putin made the remarks during a Friday released interview with NBC’s Megyn Kelly in which he stressed that the Syrian government had destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile a long time ago. Syria […]
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who is on a mini tour of Africa cancelled his Saturday program in Nairobi because he is “not feeling well.” He is will resume his normal visit on Sunday, the U.S. delegation announced. “The secretary does not feel well after two long days of working on important issues like […]
As the security and social crisis in Cameroon’s Anglophone region rages, a former United States ambassador is advocating a return to federalism as the only viable solution. Herman Cohen, a former assistant Secretary of State for Africa says the government must go back for the original federal system that was in his view ‘illegally abolished’ […]
At least five people have been killed in central Nigeria by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen, police say, in the latest flare-up linked to tensions over grazing rights. The violence took place in Nigeria’s Plateau state on Thursday, as President Muhammadu Buhari was visiting Plateau and four other flashpoint states. “The gunmen were believed to […]
A soldier was killed in an attempted kidnapping by militants of students from a school in one of Cameroon’s restive English-speaking regions, a minister said on Friday. “During an attack with weapons of war, a Cameroonian soldier lost his life and three students were wounded,” the minister of territorial administration Paul Atanga Nji said in […]
