The regime in Yaounde has a simple way of making sure citizens toe the line. Rights provided for in the constitution is simply for reading pleasure. It is meant to please the international community and other human rights organisations. It makes it impossible for those rights to be used. This is once more evident in […]
European Council President Donald Tusk says the 28-member politico-economic bloc will reduce some of the money earmarked for Turkey to join the union, reflecting increasingly strained ties with the Ankara government. Tusk told a news conference on Friday that the bloc had agreed in two days of talks in Brussels to cut or reroute some of […]
President Biya and wife, Chantal will be returning home from Switzerland early on Saturday, the presidency has reported. Our source in Geneva has not confirmed a Cameroon state media report that the president and first lady will actually be leaving the Intercontinental Hotel aboard a chartered plane in the early hours of tomorrow. According to […]
The death toll from a plague outbreak in Madagascar has risen to 94, with the number of suspected cases jumping to more than 1,100, the World Health Organization said Friday. Officials on the poor Indian Ocean island nation had earlier this week reported 74 fatalities and 805 cases. WHO’s director for health emergencies in Africa, […]
A week of talks in Cameroon’s two English-speaking zones wrapped up Friday. The government organized the dialogue in a bid to end a push for independence in the regions. However, the talks appear to have made little headway. Hundreds of protesters in Lebialem, an area in the English-speaking southwest region, jeered and chased away delegates […]
Dibussi Tande, a poet and writer, who owns Scribbles from the Den wrote a poem in honour of Barrister Agbor Felix Nkongho, the Chairman of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Consortium on January 31, 2017 while he was in jail. The stanzas holds true inspiration, motivation and words that emboldened the soul of leader of the […]
About three million people in the United States carry a loaded firearm daily, while nine million do so at least once a month, according to a new study. Most of these gun-toting Americans are young men, live in the Southern US states, self-identify as politically conservative, said the study by the Harvard School of Public […]
Every Cameroonian government minister finds being a board chair in parastatals attractive. Only the leadership of the ruling CPDM crime syndicate understands the wisdom of a government appointing cabinet ministers as chairman board of directors of state-owned companies. There are reasons why Cameroon government ownership of parastatals is attractive to CPDM politicians but costly to […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin says terrorists will be defeated in Syria soon, stressing that the intra-Syrian peace process was developing in a positive way despite problems. “There are all grounds to believe, I would say, cautiously, that we will finally beat the terrorists there [in Syria] in the near future,” Putin told the annual Valdai Discussion Club meeting […]
The Senate on Thursday began an investigation into the attack by gendarmes from Cameroonian on a community in Cross River State, stating that it is the duty of the Federal Government to protect Nigerians and their property. The probe followed the adoption of a point of order raised by Senator John Enoh (Cross River-Central) on […]
