One year after South Sudan briefly declared a famine, more than half of the people in the world’s youngest nation face extreme hunger amid civil war and famine could return, a new report says. More than six million people, up about 40 percent from a year ago, are at threat without aid, according to the […]
Qatari authorities have dismissed as “fabricated and unfounded” the recent allegations by Saudi Arabian Sports Minister Turki al-Sheikh that the energy-rich Persian Gulf kingdom could be stripped of its right to host the 2022 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup. Qatari Ambassador to Germany Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, in a post published on his official […]
Saudi Arabia has begun to permit women to join its armed forces as part of the kingdom’s Vision 2030 social program. According to a statement released by the country’s General Security division on Sunday, women can now apply for enrollment with the rank of soldier. In order to be accepted the female candidates must fulfill 12 […]
Cameroon Concord News Group condemns the abduction of the 110 innocent school girls in the town of Dapchi in Yobe state, North East Nigeria by Boko Haram. Cameroon Concord News stands firmly in solidarity with the families of the abductees in asking for an urgent search and rescue of the abductees. Like the yet unresolved […]
At least 6 civilians were killed this week and 5 others sustained life threatening injuries in several attacks attributed to Boko Haram in the so-called safe communities in the Far North region in French Cameroun. Cameroon Intelligence Report gathered that the attacks occurred in the villages of Bourvare and Vourkaza in the frontiers with the […]
At least two people have been wounded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) during attempts by police to break up a banned protest against the Central African country’s president, Joseph Kabila. The violence erupted in the DR Congo’s third largest city of Kisangani on Sunday when security forces tried to disperse hundreds […]
Leader of Cameroon’s main opposition party, Social Democratic Front (SDF) Ni John Fru Ndi, officially waded into the security crisis riling the country’s Anglophone regions. In a letter to addressed to President Paul Biya, the SDF leader denounced what he termed “atrocities” committed in the English-speaking areas of Cameroon by government forces. “I must draw […]
Campaigning has kicked off in Egypt’s presidential election, with incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi expected to win easily after his real challengers were detained, prosecuted or intimidated out of the race. Sisi, who has been in power since he led the 2013 military overthrow of his predecessor, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi, is one of the two […]
Thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets alongside African refugees in Tel Aviv to protest Israel’s policy of deporting and jailing asylum seekers. The Saturday protest was held in the city’s southern regions where most of the asylum seekers live. Participants of the rally held signs reading, “No to deportation,” “We’re all humans” and “Refugees […]
Joshua Osih, a 49-year-old lawmaker has been elected as flagbearer of Cameroon’s main opposition Social Democratic Front (SDF). A native of the country’s southwest region, Osih is an aviation expert. He was the overwhelming choice of delegates at the SDF congress polling 1,021 votes representing 88.4% as against 134 votes (12%) polled by his closest […]
