Civil society groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo say more than four dozen people were hacked to death in the country’s restive east over the weekend. The fatalities occurred during clashes between police and militia groups in and around the troubled town of Beni, located in North Kivu province. “Our team on the ground […]
A man who died after he was shot by police with a Taser gun has been named locally as ex-Aston Villa footballer Dalian Atkinson. Officers were called to a home in Meadow Close, Telford, Shrophire in the early hours of this morning amid concerns “for the safety of an individual”. West Mercia Police said the 48-year-old […]
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has won the 100 meter final, winning a gold medal and defending his Olympic title with ease. Bolt wasn’t so great at the start as he was slow moving out of the blocks. The Jamaican found himself trailing America’s Justin Gatlin at the halfway mark, but never looked like he was being beaten. Bolt […]
The plane carrying the mayor of Lagdo and his companions in misfortune, landed at the Garoua International Airport on Sunday, August 14, 2016. It was the end of an ordeal of nearly 16 months of captivity in the hands of rebels operating in the Central African Republic for the Cameroonian hostages. A statement from the Civil […]
The Turkish prime minister says more than 81,000 people have been dismissed or suspended from work over suspected links to US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the failed mid-July coup. Binali Yildirim told reporters at Cankaya Palace in the capital, Ankara, on Saturday that a total of 76,597 people have been suspended […]
Basile Atangana Kouna, Cameroon’s Minister of Water and Energy, has informed the Cameroon Water Utilities Corporation that the Biya regime will not renew the concession contract for the supply of drinking water in urban and rural areas, signed with the State of Cameroon, the Cameroon Water utilities corporation (Camwater) and Cameroon Water (CDE). In a […]
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has lambasted US President Barack Obama for failing to apologize to Japan during his visit to the East Asian country in May over the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Speaking at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in May, Obama offered no apology for the US bombings of the […]
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has claimed that the only way he could lose the state of Pennsylvania is that if his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton “cheated.” Speaking at a rally in the city of Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Trump said the Republican leaders in the state “are very concerned” about the possibility of cheating […]
Wilfried Seyi, who appeared to be the standard bearer for Team Cameroon, lost on Friday the 12th of August 2016 against the Egyptian boxer, Hossam Hussein, in the 75 kg category. For their part, the Cameroonian volleyball squad recorded four defeats against Brazil, Japan, Russia and Argentina. Our only hope for a gold medal now […]
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is going back and forth on his statement that President Barack Obama and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton “founded” the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in the Middle East. Daesh terrorists, many of whom were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, control […]
