Former US president Barack Obama offers poetic and often biting assessments of other world leaders his new memoir “A Promised Land,” which he says he wrote entirely on his own in longhand. Here are some of his descriptions of other world leaders from his encounters with them between 2009 and 2011: – RUSSIAN PRESIDENT (THEN […]
With about twenty thousand contracts of employment and a related monthly wage bill of about FCFA 2.5 billion, the crisis in the North West and South West Regions and the COVID-19 pandemic have weighed down on the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC. While the CDC is struggling to stand on its feet with government support and […]
On Monday, November 16, 2020, the French media announced the death of several public figures on its website before removing them, claiming that it was a bug. French Radio RFI surprised its listeners on Monday, November 16, 2020, by publishing in advance on its website, the obituaries of several public personalities yet still alive. All […]
President-elect Joe Biden said on Monday “more people may die” if outgoing President Donald Trump continues to block efforts to plan for a U.S. transition of power as the coronavirus pandemic worsens, and added that he would not hesitate to get vaccinated. Biden also said business and labor leaders had signaled willingness to cooperate to […]
Peru’s Congress has named centrist legislator Francisco Sagasti as caretaker president, amid a political crisis that has gripped the Andean country since its leader, who maintained an anti-corruption stance, was impeached last week. On Monday, the 76-year-old Sagasti received 97 votes in favor and 26 against to head Congress, which means he would constitutionally assume […]
Former Nigeria midfielder Christian Obodo, who spent over a decade in Serie A, including spells with Fiorentina and Udinese, said Monday that he had escaped from suspected kidnappers in the country’s oil-rich Delta state. Obodo was driving around the southern city of Warri on Sunday when he said two armed men forced themselves inside his […]
The campaign of US President Donald Trump has dropped a major part of a lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania. In an amended complaint filed in federal court on Sunday, Trump’s attorneys lodged a revised version of the lawsuit, scrapping a claim that election officials violated his campaign’s constitutional rights by unlawfully blocking observers […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after being told he came into contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19, officials said Sunday. “He will carry on working from Downing Street, including on leading the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic,” a statement from his office said. Johnson “is well and does not have […]
Cameroon Concord News Group’s Nchumbonga George Lekelefac is more than thrilled to write an account of his extensive experience with Msgr. Professor Theophilus Okere before his death on October 20, 2020 in Owerri, Nigeria. As young people, we have heard our own elders, teachers and priests say-“Okere Bu Agbara’’–(Okere is a deity) in clear deference […]
When the Southern Cameroons crisis started very few people actually gave Southern Cameroons a chance. The Yaoundé government always thought it had everything under control, especially as it had crushed the country’s political opposition which almost it out in 1991 political upheavals that rocked the country and in 1992 when the opposition leader, John Fru […]
