Canadian police said they were investigating the mysterious deaths of the billionaire founder of Canadian pharmaceutical firm Apotex Inc, Barry Sherman, and his wife, Honey, who were found dead in their Toronto mansion on Friday. The two were found dead after police responded to a medical call just before noon (1700 GMT) at their home […]
Angry relatives are demanding to know why the Biya regime is not reporting on Cameroon military casualties in the war in Manyu Division. Defense Minister Joseph Beti Assomo chaired a high level security meeting yesterday in Yaoundé on the situation in Manyu but details of soldiers killed by Southern Cameroons militants have not been released. […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has awarded $10 million in compensation to former child soldiers who had been forcefully conscripted into an extremely violent Congolese militia. On Friday, the court in The Hague awarded $8,000 per person, or $3.4 million in total, for the 427 recognized victims, and allocated an additional $6.6 million for potential […]
After the climate summit that took place in the French capital on Tuesday, December 12, 2017, President Biya and wife Chantal Biya are back in Yaoundé. The Cameroonian chief executive spent another three days in France before returning to the nation’s capital. Massive demonstrations had been planned against the presidential couple by the Cameroonian Diaspora […]
Armed separatists in Cameroon’s troubled Anglophone region attacked a village before being repelled by soldiers, security officials said Friday. “A group of secessionists on Thursday attacked the locality of Dadi,” a source said, referring to a village in the Mamfe area of Southwest Region — one of two areas shaken by unrest in Cameroon’s Anglophone […]
Vincent Nguini, a guitarist and composer from Cameroon best known for his long tenure in Paul Simon’s band, died on Dec. 8 in Abadiânia, Brazil. He was 65. The cause was liver cancer, according to Mr. Simon’s manager, Jeff Kramer. He said Mr. Nguini had gone to the city, in central Brazil, to see a […]
Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe, who was ousted from power last month, visited a Singapore hospital Friday during a trip to the city-state for a medical check-up. It was the first time he has been seen in public since he was forced to resign after a military takeover brought a sudden end to his authoritarian […]
The Cameroonian army is facing a strong response from armed Southern Cameroons militants following what is being described as an invasion of the Manyu State in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and continues military incursion is doomed to fail, according to our South West bureau chief who is currently monitoring the situation in Mamfe. “Any […]
A majority of American voters believe US President Donald Trump should resign due to the allegations of sexual harassment against him, according to several new surveys. The results of a Public Policy Polling survey released Thursday found that 53 percent of those surveyed said Trump should resign amid accusations from more than a dozen women […]
Cameroon’s main opposition party on Thursday accused the government of having “militarized” two regions shaken by unrest among the country’s anglophone minority. “The Northwest and Southwest regions are heavily militarized,” the head of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), Jean Tsomelou, said in an interview with AFP, describing the situation as “worrying.” “We have observed troop […]
