Several hundred people took to the streets in Chad’s capital N’Djamena on Thursday to protest against the ruling military junta. Opposition movement The Transformers party along with several civil society groups had called for people to come out against what they say is a “the confiscation of power” by the so-called Transitional Military Council (CMT) […]
President Joe Biden on Thursday urged local governments to pay people to get vaccinated against Covid-19, and set new rules requiring federal workers to provide proof of vaccination or face regular testing, mask mandates and travel restrictions. The measures are Biden’s latest attempt to spur reluctant Americans to get vaccinated as the Delta variant of […]
A peace conference dubbed National Women’s Convention for Peace grouping over 1,000 women from Cameroon’s 10 regions opened in the capital, Yaounde on Thursday amid rising security challenges in the Central African country. The three-day conference, the first of its kind, was organized by grassroots leaders in collaboration with the German-based organization Friedrich Ebert Foundation. […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday its board had approved a three-year financing deal for Cameroon worth $689.5 million to help the Central African nation’s economy recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and to support promised reforms. The arrangement allows for the immediate disbursement of the equivalent of $177.2 million for budget support, the […]
Shiite Muslim leader Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife detained for murder since 2015 in Nigeria have on Wednesday been discharged, lawyers said. The prominent cleric has been at loggerheads with the secular authorities for years because of his calls for an Iranian-style Islamic revolution in Nigeria, where Shiites make up a small minority. Zakzaky, his […]
Shelter Afrique has received USD 3,529,801.29 from the Government of Cameroon in additional capital subscription increasing its shareholding by 2% from the current shareholding of 3.61% to the revised shareholding of 5.24%. Cameroon, which recently acceded to the helm of the Institution at the recently concluded 40th Annual General meeting has indeed demonstrated true leadership […]
Cameroon’s government has sent ministers to its northern border with Nigeria to convince villagers who fled Boko Haram militants to return. Cameroon invested $10 million on reconstruction efforts after damage caused by the Islamist terrorist group in some villages. But, in northern Cameroon, many villagers are reluctant to go home, and authorities acknowledge the militants […]
Civilians have borne the brunt of three years of fighting between Cameroonian soldiers and Ambazonia Restoration Forces in British Southern Cameroons, Amnesty International said Wednesday. The human rights watchdog collected witness accounts and analysed satellite images to assess the fallout from the fighting. Releasing its report, Amnesty said: “Civilians (bear) the brunt of unlawful killings, […]
Nobody ever gave them a fighting chance when they started defending their territory with sticks and machetes. The government saw them like clowns and the president easily dispatched soldiers to the two English-speaking regions of the country to crush them. The country’s defense minister, Joseph Beti Assomo, arrogantly said the president’s orders would be enforced […]
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and long-time rival Laurent Gbagbo hugged on Tuesday at their first meeting in over a decade, part of efforts to ease political tensions in the West African country. I’m happy to see you,” Ouattara said as he welcomed the former president at the presidential palace in Abidjan, the economic capital […]
