Cameroon’s former transport minister, Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o is today firmly in the eye of the storm. The former transport ministry boss, considered as one of the creations of President Paul Biya and a potential successor of the “Lion Man”, is now losing sleep as the wheels of justice that have crushed the ordinary citizen […]
Nigeria’s media are reporting on Liberian President George Weah’s request for thousands of Nigerian teachers to plug the country’s deficit. “We are seeking 6,000-plus teachers to make up for the shortage of good teachers in our educational system,” President Weah told reporters after his meeting with Nigeria’s President Buhari yesterday in Abuja. Liberia’s new president […]
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has called on the British government to respond to escalating violence and the suppression of peaceful protests across the Democratic Republic of Congo. The leader of the Anglican community talked of “prevailing anarchy” and “immeasurable suffering” in the country, and urged the government to help strengthen the United Nations […]
A Nigerian man, Toni Iwobi, who has been living in Italy since the 1970s, has been elected as the country’s first black senator. Iwobi, who was born in Gusau in Northern Nigeria, is the chief immigration spokesman for the far-right League party in Italy, a party which has been accused of stirring up xenophobia. He […]
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says 21 refugees are unaccounted for and probably drowned as a wooden boat set sail from Libya towards Italy and had to be rescued. IOM spokesman Joel Millman said in a regular UN briefing in Geneva on Tuesday that the 21 missing people were all among the 51 on […]
This week’s Cabinet reshuffle in Cameroon appears unlikely to herald change in the government’s approach to the crisis in the anglophone regions. The crisis began nearly a year-and-a-half ago and has grown more violent. Stabilizing the anglophone regions is seen as a priority ahead of nationwide elections later this year. There are two notable firsts […]
At least 16 people, mostly women and children, were killed in clashes between youths and cattle herders in central Nigeria, police said Tuesday. Monday’s violence in the village of Omutu, in the Okpokwu area of Benue state, is the latest flare-up linked to tensions over land and grazing rights in the restive region. State police […]
The internet, still slow and inaccessible to many, has been restored in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions, sources and digital rights groups say. Access Now, a global advocacy group that has been pushing leaders to stop disrupting the internet under the #KeepItOn campaign, confirmed the internet was back as of Thursday (Mar. 1). While social media sites were back, […]
A former Russian spy has reportedly fallen critically ill in the UK after exposure to an “unknown substance,” British media say. Police confirmed Monday that they had found an old man and a young girl unconscious near a shopping mall in Salisbury, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of London on Sunday afternoon. The pair […]
Cameroon’s Interior Minister has averred that English-speaking regions cannot claim that President Paul Biya has been a discriminatory leader. Atanga Nji Paul was one of two Anglophones appointed in a cabinet reshuffle. he was named Minister of Territorial Administration which translates to the Interior Ministry portfolio. An investigative journalist posted a short video of Atanga’s […]
