Cameroon, the central African country that shares its western border with Nigeria, is reeling after major protests in its English-speaking regions on Sep. 22 ended with several protesters shot dead by security forces. The protests took place as president Paul Biya addressed to the 72nd UN General Assembly, some 6,000 miles away in New York. Yet, the president, […]
Thousands of people uprooted from their homes by the Boko Haram insurgency took to the streets in the sprawling Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Sunday to protest at food shortages and poor conditions in their camp. More than 2.6 million people have been displaced by the deadly violence in northeastern Nigeria that erupted eight years […]
The date October 1, 2017 is now of serious concern to the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime. The reason being that the Southern Cameroons Governing Council and the people of Southern Cameroons have chosen that day to proclaim the independence of the territory. Francophone political elites are now worried and as a precautionary measure including […]
The Anglophone problem that started with just simple socio-professional demands by lawyers and teachers in October 2016 has today developed into a full blown crisis due to the politicization of the issues and the radicalization of the English-speaking minority by the government via its response. This response has been marked by denial, disregard, intimidation and […]
Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region is holding an independence referendum in the face of strong objections from the central government in Baghdad and in defiance of urgent calls from the international community to scrap the vote. A total of 12,072 polling stations have opened at 8:00 local time (0500 GMT) Monday where more than 5.3 million are […]
The Francophone Minister of Finance has threatened to shut down the Regional Headquarters of a Southern Cameroons Bank. National Financial Credit Bank premises in the Bamenda County closed from Monday to Wednesday last week following orders from the Southern Cameroons Governing Council. However, the regional bureau of the National Financial Credit Bank of Bamenda received […]
Almost one third of rape and sex abuse crimes committed by United Nations peacekeepers in the past decade and more have occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a new report says. The results of the investigative report by the Associated Press released on Saturday said of a total of 2,000 sexual abuse and exploitation […]
A mass acid attack has left several people injured in an area around a shopping center in Stratford, east London, police say. A “group of males” reportedly sprayed “what is believed to be a noxious substance,” injuring at least six people, a Metropolitan Police spokesman told The Independent. The spokesman also said that police have placed in custody one […]
When Cameroon’s President for the past 30-plus years Paul Biya came to meet Antonio Guterres, he was accompanied by state media and… Inner City Press. Earlier on September 22 Inner City Press interviewed Southern Cameroonians out on 47th Street, then asked Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric about people killed that very day. From the UN transcript: […]
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development has issued a statement classifying Southern Cameroons as “Red Zone”. In the section “Advice to Travellers” on the website of the French embassy in Cameroon, French nationals residing in La Republique have been told to avoid travelling to Southern Cameroons. The French statement said “Due to […]
