A growing number of traditional chiefs are occupying leadership positions in government. During regional elections, 20 such chiefs were elected as traditional rulers. However, in reality, their influence has diminished over time. On 2 December, Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya, decided to provide “financial support” to traditional chiefs standing for election as regional councillors on 6 […]
There is indeed an urgent need for a change of leadership in Yaoundé! Every political commentator including the diplomatic community are wishing for the people of French Cameroun and their military to rid themselves of the burden of President Biya and his ruling CPDM gangs who console them with lies and have successfully trapped them […]
Russia has rejected US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Moroccan “sovereignty” over Western Sahara — as part of a normalization deal between Morocco and the Israeli regime — as a violation of international law. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov on Friday called the US decision “unilateral” and said “there are relevant resolutions, there […]
Germany will have to impose tougher coronavirus restrictions before Christmas to try to get the pandemic under control, ministers and regional leaders said on Friday (December 11), as Baden-Wuerttemberg became the latest state to impose a night curfew. The country has been in partial lockdown for six weeks, with bars and restaurants closed but shops […]
The UN’s top court found in favour of France on Friday in a bitter battle with Equatorial Guinea over a swanky Paris house seized in a corruption probe into the playboy son of the African nation’s long-term president. Equatorial Guinea argued that the luxury mansion could not be confiscated as it was part of its […]
The court in the landmark corruption trial of French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy will deliver its verdict on March 1, 2021. The trial wrapped up on Thursday evening after the last of the defence was concluded. Earlier this week, prosecutors called for Sarkozy to be sentenced to a prison term of four years of which he […]
Southern Cameroons Vice President Dabney Yerima has reacted to remarks made in a recent briefing by François Louncény Fall, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), during the Security Council Open VTC on the United Nations Regional Office saying the people of Ambazonia will continue to resist against […]
The global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has slammed the Yaoundé government, accusing of Arbitrary detentions and military courts which clearly highlight the latest crackdown on opposition members. The arrests, arbitrary detentions and prosecutions in military courts of opposition members who were peacefully gathering are the latest example of Cameroonian authorities’ crackdown on dissenting voices […]
The Vice President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government, Dabney Yerima has urged US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to help the suffering peoples of Southern Cameroons in the face of a deliberate international neglect. Speaking exclusively to Cameroon Concord News Group, Yerima congratulated Biden and Kamala on their victory in the […]
US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were named Time magazine’s 2020 “Person of the Year” on Thursday for their election victory over Donald Trump. “For changing the American story, for showing that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division, for sharing a vision of healing in a grieving […]
