The Francophone regime in Yaoundé reportedly taking the last kicks of a dying horse has created an obscure organization known as the Consortium of Parents headed by highly placed military officers. The group announced its existence recently by dragging Southern Cameroon Roman Catholic Bishops, Principals and Reverend Sisters to a court in the Bamenda province. […]
Dr. Boniface Forbin has met his end in his home in Yaoundé. The circumstances surrounding his death have not been made public by his family. The publisher-editor’s death may not be separated from The Herald Newspaper. Former newsmen and women including the Herald People have observed that at the inception of multiparty politics in Cameroon, […]
The number of British citizens applying for Irish passports has increased by more than two-thirds, Ireland’s Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan says, attributing it in part to Brexit. “It’s reasonable to suggest that Brexit is a factor in what are record numbers of applications,” Flanagan stated on Saturday while expressing concerns on the impact of the […]
The Biya Francophone government through the Bamenda Court of First Instance has summoned Bishops Cornelius Fontem ESUA, Bishop Michael, Bishop George NKOU, Fathers Michael KINTANG and Williams Neba for statements and releases made during the heart of the Anglophone crisis which according to the regime have paralyzed activities in schools. In a summon with seven […]
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres has appointed Vera Songwe to the coveted post of Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). The appointment was made public on Thursday, 13 April 2017. Prior to the appointment as head of ECA, the 42 year old who hails from the […]
Monday promises to be tense in the Ministry of Health as a tug-of-war seem to have erupted involving medical doctors and the Francophone Minister of Public Health. The medics under the banner of SYMEC have announced a nationwide strike action beginning April 17, 2017. For his part, the Public Health Minister Mama Fouda has made […]
I’ll never cease to remember my man, Silver, especially as he hopped the twig only yesterday, 14/4/17 at the University Teaching Hospital in Yaoundé. He was the only (dreadlocks-carrying) reggae musician I knew and still know who shunned cannabis. He was an embodiment of simplicity, overly respectful and ever willing to serve. There was a […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warns that Libya faces a risk of relapsing into chaos amid renewed military confrontations between rival parties and a political stalemate in the North African country. Guterres made the warning in a report to the UN Security Council on Thursday, saying that Libya could return to widespread conflict in the […]
The United Nations’ World Food Program could in a few weeks run out of funding to feed millions living on the brink of famine in Nigeria, four people familiar with the matter said, intensifying one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. In the northeast, 4.7 million people, many of them refugees from the conflict with […]
Gunmen have ambushed and killed eight police officers in eastern Tanzania, the presidency said Friday, the latest in a string of killings targeting politicians and security officers in the East African nation. “President John Pombe Magufuli is surprised and very sorry to learn of the news of the death of eight police officers killed last […]
