The ILA (Nigeria) Committee on Justice and Human Rights, acting under the protective mandate of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, is concerned over the ongoing events in the Republic of Cameroon and has considered it imperative to add its voice to the variously expressed opposition to the wanton violation of the rights […]
The President of the National Communication Council has issued an order banning Cameroonian journalists from commenting on the 10-year prison sentence of Ahmed Abba- a news reporter with Radio France International. Peter Esoka observed in the executive order that journalists do not have the right to speak of decisions made by courts. Esoka sounded a […]
US Ambassador to Cameroon Michael S. Hoza said on Thursday that he had a dense and fruitful exchange with President Paul Biya on bilateral cooperation between the United States and Cameroon . The two personalities reviewed current issues including the socio-political situation in Southern Cameroon. The ambassador also hinted that the talks were intensive and […]
The Judges at the Yaoundé military court failed to produce witnesses against Barrister Agbor Balla, Dr Fontem Neba, Mancho Bibixy and 24 others on Thursday April 27, 2017 during the second hearing. The 17 witnesses who are mostly Francophone military officers did not show up at the witness box as was expected by the defense […]
A sixty-year old woman gave birth to a set of twins at the Gynecological Endoscopic Surgery and Human Reproductive Teaching Hospital, CHRACERH in Yaoundé. The birth was registered yesterday the 27th of April 2017. The lady was amongst several others had successful in-vitro fertilization. The 60-year old is a retired civil servant who has never […]
US President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts for individuals and businesses could add trillions of dollars to the country’s budget deficit and would significantly benefit the wealthy, according to fiscal experts and lawmakers. The White House unveiled a one-page plan on Wednesday proposing deep US tax cuts, many for businesses, that would make the federal […]
The hearing started today at 11:14am with the counsel for the civil parties presenting their memorandum of appearance after which they made an oral application for an adjournment to consult the case file- an application which the defense argued vigorously against by citing several provisions of the law to buttress their points. The prosecution on […]
A military brass band and formations of Cameroonian Armed Forces troops welcomed multinational participants and signaled the opening of the inaugural exercise Unified Focus in Cameroon on 24 April. UF 17 is a weeklong tabletop exercise that brings the military partners of the Lake Chad Basin area’s Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) together to practice […]
Twenty people died in ethnic clashes last week in the troubled central Kasai region of Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said Wednesday. The UN’s DR Congo mission, MONUSCO, said in a statement that the clashes took place on April 19 east of the Kasai capital, Tshikapa, between members of the Lulua-Luba and Chowe-Pende […]
