A judge on Monday set March 4, 2024 for former president Donald Trump’s election subversion conspiracy trial — placing one of the biggest criminal cases in American history at the height of the next White House race. The date — a full two years before the defense team’s proposal — is the eve of “Super […]
Amnesty International has called on the Biya Francophone regime in Yaoundé to release Muslim scholar, Abdulkarim Ali, who has been detained without trial since August 11, 2023. Marking the first year in detention for Abdulkarin Ali, who has reportedly been accused of inciting subversion of state power and having strong ties with the leaderships of […]
Niger has given France’s ambassador to Niamey 48 hours to leave the country charging the European country with meddling in the internal affairs of its former African colony. Faced with “the refusal of the French ambassador in Niamey to respond to an invitation” from Niger’s foreign minister for a meeting on Friday and “other actions […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists said Gabonese police expelled Sainclair Mezing, a reporter with Cameroon Tribune newspaper, hours after his arrival in the capital, Libreville. According to the media rights group based in the United States, Mezing was expelled on 19 August, with just 7 days to the election on 26 August. The journalist who […]
Niger military government has ordered its armed forces to go on the highest alert in the face of an increased threat of military action by a West African regional bloc that is calling for the restoration of the country’s deposed president, Mohamed Bazoum. On Friday, Niger’s defense chief issued an internal document, which was shared […]
France has emerged as Cameroon’s leading wheat supplier, ahead of Russia which has seen its supplies shrink by 65 per cent, per data published by the country’s statistics agency. Russia as late as 2020 was Cameroon’s largest supplier with 396,000 tons but the figure slumped to 138,000 last year. Cameroonian wheat buyers according to the […]
Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales refused to resign on Friday after a week of widespread criticism for his unsolicited kiss on the lips of player Jenni Hermoso following Spain’s Women’s World Cup triumph. “I will not resign, I will not resign, I will not resign,” shouted Rubiales at an emergency meeting of the football federation. […]
Former US president Donald Trump was arrested at a Georgia jail Thursday on racketeering and conspiracy charges and released on a $200,000 bond after having a historic mug shot taken. Trump, who is accused of colluding with 18 other defendants to overturn the 2020 election result in the southern state, spent less than 30 minutes […]
Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) president Samuel Eto’o on Thursday urged his supporters not to give up following widespread criticisms of how he has been managing the football governing body. “Peace and serenity to those who support me in my project to restore all the greatness to Cameroonian football. We endure the violence of adversity, but […]
Maintenance works on earthen roads are suspended, for four months, on most road networks. The decision was issued by Transport Minister, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, last August 21. According to the government official, the decision is motivated by the ongoing rainy season. Specifically, the suspension goes from July 1 to October 31, 2023, for the North […]
