Last Friday, a man named Julius Ayuk Tabe was arrested along with nine others in a hotel in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Tabe and his companions were reportedly committing no crime, at least not one that has yet been disclosed. There are inconsistencies in the reporting. Some accounts say 10 people were arrested, while others speak of seven. […]
Thousands of cocoa farmers have fled violence between separatists and security forces in Cameroon’s Southwest Region, which grows more than 100,000 tonnes of beans, nearly half of the country’s output, farmers and buyers told Reuters. They said the clashes could put a dent in output from the world’s fifth largest cocoa producer, which is already […]
Over a thousand Ambazonian citizens in the Federal Republic of Germany are expected to stage a demonstration on Friday the 19th of January 2018 in Berlin in front of the Nigerian embassy. Cameroon Concord News understands the demo is in solidarity with the Interim Head of State of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, Sisiku Ayuk […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin says opposition figure Alexei Navalny is the United States’ choice for presidency in Russia, criticizing Washington for interfering in Russian internal affairs by backing Navalny. Last month, the US protested after Navalny was barred from running for office by the central election commission due to his criminal record, including a suspended […]
Chancellor Angela Merkel was struggling Friday to find a coalition deal with Germany’s second biggest party, as a last-ditch round of negotiations goes down to the wire with “big obstacles” left to clear. After 18 hours of talks and still no agreement in sight between Merkel’s conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats, weary negotiators said […]
Four people were killed and two others kidnapped in separate overnight attacks in the far north of Cameroon, blamed on the Islamist group Boko Haram, sources told AFP on Thursday. Three of the victims were “slaughtered” in Kolofata, a town which borders Nigeria and that has seen a spate of attacks blamed on the jihadists, […]
A human-rights lawyer representing English-speaking Cameroonian separatists said Thursday the group had been arrested by Nigeria’s secret service and were being held “illegally”, calling on the government to probe their disappearance. Femi Falana Femi Falana said Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, the president of the anglophone separatist movement in Cameroon, and nine others were detained at a […]
“It was like I was watching a horror movie” is how the bishop of Mamfe diocese in Cameroon’s South West Region described the scene he saw in the village of Kembong village. Mgr Andrew Nkea had visited the village in the wake of the deaths of four soldiers late December, killed by unknown assailants (although […]
More than 15,000 Cameroonian refugees have fled to Nigeria amid a crackdown on Anglophone separatists, the United Nations (UN) refugee agency and Nigerian government officials said on Thursday. The once-fringe English-speaking movement in majority French-speaking Cameroon has gathered pace in the last few months after a military crackdown on protests, leading it to declare independence […]
Tens of thousands of Ambazonians throughout Western Europe, South Africa, Canada and the USA have planned to march and attend rallies to show their support for the Interim President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides arrested in Abuja, Nigeria last week. The leaders of the newly […]
