Flooding and landslides impacted Buea and Limbe in the Southwest Region, overnight March 18/19. Damage to property and casualties have been reported. Multiple road routes have reportedly been flooded. Further heavy rainfall, conducive to additional flooding and landslides, is forecast through March 19. Disruptions to electricity and telecommunications services are possible where significant flooding or […]
President Joe Biden and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar painted the town green Friday, celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day — and touting Biden’s expected visit to Ireland and Northern Ireland to mark the anniversary of the Good Friday peace accords. The Taoiseach’s annual White House visit is a cherished tradition on the Irish national holiday. That […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being responsible for war crimes committed in Ukraine. The court said in a statement that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) […]
The recent killing of several innocent civilians in Muea by the Cameroon government military and the brutal assassination of Professor Chiabi Emmanuel in Bamenda by a non-state armed group is truly shocking and utterly despicable, Barrister Agbor Balla pointed out in a release on the crisis in Southern Cameroons. University dons have to be able […]
At least 3,000 people have been displaced in fresh fighting along the Nigerian-Cameroonian border, according to forces battling Boko Haram militants. Refugees at Minawao, a camp on Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria, say the number of people seeking humanitarian assistance in the camp increases by the day. Isaac Luka, president of Nigerian refugees at Minawao, […]
Gianni Infantino has referenced Rwanda’s hardship in recovering from a genocide, which saw an estimated 800,000 people murdered, when discussing his campaign to become FIFA president in 2016. Infantino was speaking at the FIFA electoral congress in Rwanda’s capital of Kigali where he was re-elected for another four-year term after running unopposed. And while he […]
A federal jury convicted an Ashburn woman today on charges of conspiracy, bank fraud, and money laundering. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Rose-Marie Nsahlai, 47, and her husband fraudulently obtained two Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. The PPP was a program instituted by the U.S. Congress to help businesses affected by […]
Four candidates have been identified to succeed Léopold Maxime Eko Eko, the head of the Directorate General of External Research popularly known as CENER who was indicted on 4 March in the case of journalist Martinez Zogo’s murder. After 12 years at the head of the Cameroonian secret service, Léopold Maxime Eko Eko, one of […]
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have attacked Zamga, a border village in Far North Cameroon, killing a 75-year-old woman. The woman, named locally as Aicha Degoule, was beheaded on Friday March 10 during the early hours of the morning as several Boko Haram fighters stormed the village, according to sources. Aicha was living with her granddaughter, […]
Mozambique and Malawi on Monday were counting the cost of Tropical Storm Freddy, which killed more than 100 people, injured scores and left a trail of destruction as it ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month over the weekend. Freddy is one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the southern […]
