At least three soldiers have been killed after being caught in an ambush by Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria. Security and civilian sources said Thursday that the attack took place a day earlier near the town of Damboa in the restive Borno state. A senior military officer said the convoy targeted in the attack […]
Southern Cameroonians in the Bamenda State are not really expecting anything from the series of consultations initiated by the so-called Prime Minister and Head of Government, Yang Philemon. Since October 15, 2017, Philemon Yang started staging a series of counterfeit consultations with the socio-political actors of Southern Cameroons. In Bamenda County, opinions are much divided […]
Cameroon must urgently rethink a policy of “murderous repression” in its restive English-speaking regions or risk the crisis spiralling into an armed uprising, the International Crisis Group (ICG) warned Thursday. In a report on the political crisis in the west African nation, the NGO said the government’s crackdown on the anglophone minority had failed and […]
Barrister Akere Muna is back in Cameroon, after a mini-tour of Europe that allowed him to exchange with the diaspora his willingness to succeed Paul Biya as President of the Republic. After the declaration of his candidature less than three weeks ago, Akere Muna also announced that in the coming months he will pursue actions […]
European Union President Donald Tusk has warned Britain not to expect any breakthrough in Brexit negotiations at an EU summit this week, saying London needed to come up with more concrete proposals. “I don’t expect any kind of breakthrough tomorrow — we have to work really hard in between October and December to finalize this […]
The UN’s approach to date, as the Internet was cut off in Southern Cameroons, has been anything but open. The Southern Cameroon question was put to Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ spokesman and some Southern Cameroonians were interviewed in front of the UN. Human rights groups have unanimously confirmed the killings of hundreds of peaceful Southern […]
The leader of a group calling for the secession of the Nigerian territory formerly known as Biafra did not appear at a court hearing raising concern among supporters who say they haven’t seen him in weeks. Nnamdi Kanu’s family and backers say they haven’t heard from him since what they said was a military raid […]
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga called Wednesday for mass protests on the day of the October 26 presidential election, in which he has refused to take participate. “Protests will go on, on the 26th (there) will be the biggest demonstrations in the whole country,” he told a rally of thousands of supporters in a suburb […]
The ongoing genocide in Southern Cameroons appears to be a repeat of what the Beti-Ewondo military junta did to Maguidas immediately after the 1984 April 6th Coup. After the discovery of mass graves in Buea, the political elites of the North have revealed that the Mass Graves at Mbalmayo will not remain without vengeance. About […]
US President Donald Trump has launched another attack on the news media, calling journalists and reporters “fiction writers.” In a tweet on Tuesday, Trump upped the ante on his attacks against what he calls “fake news” media and censured reporters from NBC News, CBS News, ABC and CNN. “So much Fake News being put in dying […]
