The United Nations refugee agency has called on Israeli authorities to scrap a new program that forces thousands of African refugees out of the occupied territories. William Spindler, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said in a press briefing on Tuesday in the Swiss city of Geneva that the program was not […]
Fifteen months back, when a group of Anglophone lawyers went on strike in Cameroon, few would have predicted how far and how quickly events would escalate. Back then, in October 2016, the lawyers were objecting to the appointment of French-educated judges to their courts. A few other frustrated groups joined them later in peaceful protest […]
Voter registration is underway in Cameroon ahead of nationwide elections later this year, however the electoral body is encountering both voter apathy and challenges due to insecurity in some parts of the country. The staff of Cameroon elections management body ELECAM move from shop to shop at the busy Mfoundi market in Yaounde convincing potential […]
Some 200 members of one of Italy’s most infamous mafia groups were arrested in an operation in Italy and Germany, police said on Tuesday. A statement from the para-military Carabinieri police said the operation had dismantled a major clan of the ‘Ndrangheta organised crime group, which is based in the southern Calabria region. Police said […]
Unlawful arrest /abduction of Cameroonian refugees by Nigerian Security agents On behalf of the African Bar Association, I write to bring to your esteemed attention and to formally protest the unlawful arrest and abduction of scores of Cameroonian refugees resident in Nigeria by Security agents believed to be from the department of State Security, the […]
Truth is indeed a crime in an empire of liars. It is quite clear that the Biya regime is founded on lies and has been trading on that path ever since the April 6th 1984 coup. As renowned Southern Cameroon journalists and media outlets are well known today with their excellence in investigative journalism and […]
Egyptians will head to the polls in late March in the first round of the presidential election, with current President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi widely expected to stand for election and likely to win a second four-year term amid a heavy clampdown on dissent. National Elections Authority chief Lasheen Ibrahim told a news conference in Cairo on […]
A new survey says about eight out of 10 French people regard at least one conspiracy theory as true. According to a poll conducted by Ifop group on behalf of the Fondation Jean-Jaurès think-tank and the Conspiracy Watch organization, large sections of the French society believed in theories with no roots in established fact. The […]
The Federal Republic of Nigeria will not consider the extradition of the Interim President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia including nine of his top aides, whom the 84 year old Cameroonian dictator, Paul Biya has accused of destabilising La Republique du Cameroun, the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Cameroon Concord News Group, Soter Tarh […]
Ambazonia Communication Secretary, Chris Anu says he is “stunned” and “broken hearted” by the arrest of the Interim President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his aides. The Interim Government has announced a press briefing to be aired at 7 pm today. Hon. Chris Anu is expected to inform Southern Cameroonians […]
