Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will visit Yobe, the northeastern state where 110 schoolgirls were abducted by suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram last month, the presidency said on its official Twitter feed on Monday. The presidency said Buhari would visit areas affected by criminality in the last few weeks to meet and console […]
David Nkoto Emane, the General Manager of Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) – a state-owned telephone operator has been barred from leaving the country. The decision also concerns Richard Maga, the deputy general manager of the company including some of their staff. The decision to prevent Camtel’s officials from leaving Cameroonian territory was taken on the instructions […]
Ethiopia’s ruling coalition is expected to meet this week to choose a new prime minister, most likely from the populous Oromo ethnic group to try and dampen the discontent behind recent anti-government demonstrations. The change in leadership follows the surprise resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn last month. He is the first ruler in modern […]
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has met with a high-level delegation from the South, saying he firmly wishes to “vigorously advance” bilateral ties between the two Koreas. In a four-hour “openhearted talk” over dinner in Pyongyang on Monday, Kim “made an exchange of in-depth views on the issues for easing the acute military tensions on […]
The Tajoura migrant camp on the edge of Tripoli was the scene of a clash between lions: teams of Cameroonian and Senegalese soccer players whose dream is to play in Europe. The Indomitable Lions and the Lions of Teranga took their names from those of their national teams, but the match had little of the […]
Cameroon’s military took over the construction of roads at its northern borders with Chad and Nigeria after Chinese contractors abandoned the work following repeated attacks from armed Boko Haram fighters. Hundreds of curious onlookers, including businesswoman and politician Amkress Djibrine, watched Cameroon’s military engineering corps dig through an abandoned portion of the road linking its […]
South Africans were told not to consume “ready to eat” processed meat on Sunday as the government linked a listeria outbreak which has killed 180 people to a sausage meat made by the country’s biggest consumer foods group. The meat, known as “Polony”, made by Tiger Brands unit Enterprise Food and by RCL Foods, would […]
The curfew in Cameroon’s North West region has been extended by another week by the governor. A March 4, 2018 press release said the extension was to contain growing threats from secessionist activities. The governor “has renewed the regional order restricting the movement of persons and property as from the 3rd of March 2018 from […]
Former CIA chief John Brennan’s statement shows the long knives are being sharpened for US President Donald Trump’s head, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist. Brennan said in an interview with MSNBC on Friday that Trump was “ill prepared” to take charge as the commander in chief of the United States […]
At least four soldiers and two mobile policemen, who fled to Cameroon during an attack by Boko Haram on Rann, Borno State, have been rescued and returned to Nigeria by Cameroonian troops. Security sources told SaharaReporters that they were handed to Nigerian troops at Gamboru-Ngala. “The soldiers claimed to have fled gunfire that left eight […]
