The collapse of the UK’s Monarch Airline has left some 110,000 Britons stranded abroad, kicking off the biggest peacetime repatriation program to take them back home. Britain’s longest-surviving airline brand ceased all trading activities early Monday and was placed into administration after failing to renew a crucial license. The airline’s collapse meant that all of […]
The Anglophone problem which started like a joke has finally spiraled out of control following the slaughtering of some twenty armless Anglophone protesters in various cities across Southern Cameroons. The protesters had been out to celebrate their independence on October 1, 2017, but were interrupted by security forces who had received orders to shoot and […]
At least seven people were killed in Cameroon’s restive anglophone belt at the weekend as a separatist group made a symbolic declaration of independence. The separatists chose October 1, the anniversary of the official reunification of the anglophone and francophone parts of Cameroon, to declare independence for “Ambazonia”, the name of the state they want […]
Catalonia’s regional government has announced that 90 percent of those who participated in an independence referendum banned by Spain’s central government choose to be separated from the country. While addressing a press briefing early on Monday, regional government spokesman Jordi Turull announced that 2.02 million Catalans had voted “yes” to the question: “Do you want […]
When Cameroon’s President for the past 30-plus years Paul Biya came to meet Antonio Guterres on September 22, before he went back to the Hotel Inter-Continental in Geneva, he was accompanied by his state media and… Inner City Press. Now Biya, still in Geneva, has directed his forced to use water cannons in Buea, as […]
The Anglophone crisis that started in October 2016 reached its apex on Sunday, October 1, 2017 following the declaration of independence in various cities across Southern Cameroons despite the heavy deployment of government troops to intimidate Southern Cameroonians who have clearly displayed their determination to quit a badly and hastily stitched union with East Cameroon. […]
In the wake of controversial independence votes in both Kurdistan and Catalonia, religious leaders in Cameroon are expressing concerns that similar calls for secession by some Southern Cameroonians could degenerate into violence that would shake the very foundations of the country’s much-hyped peace. The Southern Cameroonians have regained their independence from what’s officially known, in […]
Cameroon has once again disrupted internet connection it its restive Southern Cameroons in the wake of fresh mass protests. The interference has largely affected social media sites like WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter. For the last 48 hours local residents in towns like Buea and Bamenda had noticed slow or inconsistent connections to the popular communications platforms. The […]
Police and the military in Cameroon have shot dead at least seven Anglophone people as member of the community continue protesting for independence from the majority Francophone nation. The unrest took place Sunday on the anniversary of Anglophone Cameroon’s independence from Britain in the country’s English-speaking regions. Five prisoners were killed in the jail where […]
Introduction A legal system is designed primarily to order and regulate the political, social, and economic lives of the people and society within its juridical sphere of influence. It is invariably derived from and conditioned by the history and customs of the territory in which it holds sway, thereby becoming a cardinal attribute of its […]
