A report entitled “From conflict to illegality: Cartography of the diamond trade of the Central African Republic in Cameroon”, made public on Friday in Canada, accused the Biya regime of creating a hub in Cameroon for the Central African diamonds gotten through smuggling. According to the report, Cameroon consistently allows diamonds from the Central African […]
US President-elect Donald Trump has lodged a lawsuit to prevent an election recount in Michigan scheduled to begin next week. The move on Friday comes after Republican Trump’s allies have begun to freeze recount efforts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the states where he narrowly beat his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The supporters of the […]
Anglophone teachers have kicked against the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo government’s recent move to end the lingering strike by the teachers, saying that no amount of coercion will make them return to work unless the contentious issue of the bi-cultural nature of the country’s education system is satisfactorily resolved. Speaking on the so-called Prime […]
A Nigerian court has ruled that Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the jailed leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), should be released unconditionally. The Abuja division of the Federal High Court of Nigeria on Friday also ruled that Zakzaky’s wife, Zeenat, should be released. Justice Gabriel Kolawole said the court had come to the conclusion […]
Martin Belinga Eboutou, the Director of the Civil Cabinet at the presidency of the republic has made public President Biya’s decision to preside over the closing ceremony of the 10th edition of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations that has been marred by violent demonstrations in the Anglophone section of the country. The Lionesses of […]
Former UN chief Kofi Annan is on a fact-finding mission in Myanmar to probe a bloody army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in the country. Annan and his team on Friday arrived in the volatile northwestern Rakhine State, where an army crackdown has killed at least 86 ethnic Rohingya Muslims, according to government figures. Independent groups […]
French President Francoise Hollande has announced that he will not stand for re-election in the upcoming presidential poll amid low popularity ratings and a fairly high unemployment rate in the Western European country. “Today I am aware of the risks that going down a route that would not gather sufficient support would entail, so I […]
For the past two weeks, the North West and South West regions of Cameroon have been the theater of violent confrontations between protesters seeking to draw attention to the sorry plight of the country’s Anglophone minority and the forces of law (lessness) and (dis) order who still think that intimidation and violence can stop the […]
Talks between the Anglophone Teachers Trade Unions and the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo government have broken off. A statement from the Prime Minister says President Biya has decided on two measures aimed at improving the working conditions in public and private schools. The Biya decision read on state radio and television made a mockery of […]
Members of parliament have adopted the 4,373.8 billion FCFA as 2017 state budget. The budget is up from 4,274.7 billion FCFA in 2016. The Minister of the Economy and Finance, Alamine Ousmane Mey defended the budget before the Finance and Budget Committee of the National Assembly. The bill according to the Finance Minister was designed […]
