The conflict in Southern Cameroun following the declaration of the Republic of Ambazonia has created a humanitarian crisis with thousands of Southern Cameroonians fleeing into Nigeria. In this interview published by The New Telegraph, a lawyer and human rights activist, Abdul Oroh, examines the plight of the members of the Interim Government and other deportees […]
US President Donald Trump may be, like Nixon in China before him, the instrument for resolving the decades-long conflict with North Korea but there will be a concerted attempt by insiders in Washington to scuttle any deal that Trump and Kim Jong-un may reach, says Professor Dennis Etler, an American political analyst who has a decades-long […]
It appears there is no limit to the odium Cameroonians will suffer at the hands of Paul Biya and his “untouchable” Higher Education Minister, Fame Ndongo. After the scandal involving Biya’s laptop computers, Fame Ndongo, in a communique signed and published March 7, 2018, appointed Prof Teyabe Marcelline née Dama to head the Language Sciences […]
The government of Cameroon has released women that were arrested on Friday for protesting killings in the Anglophone regions of the country. The women marching in the capital Yaounde, were led by the national coordinator of Cameroon People Party (CPP), Edith Kahbang Walla, also known as Kah Walla. Kah Walla said the protest march was […]
Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim will step down next week, the prime minister said on Friday, after she was accused of using a credit card issued by an international non-governmental organisation to buy clothes and jewellery. Pravind Jugnauth, the prime minister, told reporters Gurib-Fakim would resign after March 12, after the celebration of the country’s 50th […]
The reconstitution of the Cameroonian government on March 2, many not be enough to calm tensions in some English-speaking regions of the country. In Bamenda, the northwestern part of the country, for example, some residents have protested against the retention and appointment of certain English-speaking personalities. Civil society groups say this realignment is not a […]
Zimbabwe’s ex-leader Robert Mugabe sent shockwaves through the party he dominated for decades when he posed with the retired general who will take on the ruling ZANU-PF in this year’s election. Mugabe grinned broadly in the posed photo, standing beside brigadier general Ambrose Mutinhiri, the leader of opposition party the National Patriotic Front (NPF), which hopes […]
The African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim bank) has announced a partnership with the Development Bank of Central African States (BDEAC) to promote trade and regional integration in BDEAC member countries. A statement by Mr Obi Emekekwue, the bank’s Director and Global Head, Communications and Events Management on Thursday in Lagos, said the member countries were Cameroon, […]
U.S. forces deployed to Niger, Mali and Cameroon will now receive “imminent danger pay,” which will be awarded retroactively to some troops who operated in those countries, according to a Defense Department memorandum. The decision to grant danger pay comes five months after an Oct. 4 ambush in Niger that killed four U.S. soldiers. For […]
Africa’s richest man Nigerian billionaire Alhaji Aliko Dangote may be top of the rankings in Africa but at the global level, he rounded off as the 100th richest. This is according to U.S.-based Forbes Magazine in the latest release of its annual list of the world’s richest persons (2018). With a fortune estimated at $14.1 […]
