Barrister Halle Nico, President of the General Assembly of the Cameroon Bar Association has broken the silence he maintained ever since the beginning of the Common Law Lawyers strike action in Southern Cameroons. The veteran lawyer is concerned about the evolution of the situation almost seven months after the revolution. The Ntumfor observed that efforts […]
The UN systems in Cameroon and the Ministry of the Economy Planning and Regional Development have unveiled the 2017 United Nations Development Assistance Frame work UNDAF. Accordingly, a sum of 381 billion FCFA will be used to assist Cameroon in its developmental projects. The package was officially presented during a ceremony organized on Monday the […]
US President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey, amid probes of potential contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russian officials prior to the 2016 presidential election. “The president has accepted the recommendation of the Attorney General and the deputy Attorney General regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” White […]
A large portion of a storage tunnel that contains train carriages full of radioactive waste has collapsed in the US state of Washington, according to local news sources. After the accident on Tuesday morning, hundreds of workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation were evacuated and others who were farther away were told to remain indoors, […]
The name Abdoulaye Harissou, who has been detained at the State Secretariat for Defense (SED) for three years, is contained in a presidential decree signed on Monday by the Head of State, terminating the duties of a score of notaries. The action is seen as a move by the 84 year old Head of State […]
Rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a report that reveals several immigrants’ deaths in US detention facilities due to “systematic” medical negligence. “New evidence has emerged of dangerously subpar medical care in US immigration detention centers that has caused preventable deaths,” the New York-based rights group said in the report published on Monday. […]
Members of the North West Fons Union, NOWEFU, have called on the 84 year old President Paul Biya to stand as candidate for the Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement, CPDM, in the 2018 Presidential elections. The Post newspaper reported that the appeal was contained in two motions of support addressed to the Head of State on […]
The so-called main opposition party in Cameroon, the Social Democratic Front of Ni John Fru Ndi has announced a boycott of national day celebrations slated for May the 20th 2017. The SDF reasons for the SDF action are contained in a communiqué issued on Monday, May 8, 2017 and signed by the National Chairman Ni […]
Several hundred mutinous soldiers and ex-rebel fighters in Ivory Coast have taken control of main access roads to the country’s second largest city, demanding the payment of promised bonuses following a deal in January. Wearing balaclavas or some with ash-blackened faces, mutineers set up barricades and blocked access to the city of Bouake and Ivory […]
The Cameroonian dictator in power for 35 years has sent a letter of congratulations to French president elect, Emmanuel Macron today Monday, May 8, 2017, following his electoral victory in France’s general elections. In the letter Mr. Biya wrote: “Mr. President, on the occasion of your brilliant election as President of the French Republic, I […]
