Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is 92 percent effective, according to initial test results, its developers said on Wednesday, as Moscow races against its competitors in the West. The calculations were based on results from 16,000 individuals who received both doses of the vaccine, Russia’s Health Ministry, the state-run Gamaleya research center, and the Russian […]
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and his main rival, Henri Konan Bédié, were in talks for the first time Wednesday since an election crisis that has claimed scores of lives. Ouattara and Bédié, an 86-year-old former president, arrived at an upmarket hotel in Abidjan amid a swarm of reporters, several hours after the much-awaited meeting […]
The final journey of the coffin that will carry the dead body of President Biya’s 102 years old sister the late Mrs Bidjang Regine Ndonda will begin in Yaoundé, the nation’s capital and end in Mvomeka’a in the South Region of French Cameroun. Régine Ngonda, who died on October 31, 2020 in Yaounde due to […]
US President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. named Ron Klain, a veteran Democratic operative and a decades-long confidant, to be his White House chief of staff on Wednesday evening, moving quickly to put in place the senior leaders of the government he will lead early next year. Klain, a lawyer with deep experience on Capitol Hill, […]
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A second group of Cameroonian asylum-seekers are expected to be deported from the U.S. sparking condemnation from rights groups. Activists fear the mostly English-speaking Cameroonians will be prosecuted for alleged involvement in the country’s separatist conflict. There are also growing concerns over the fate of the first group of Cameroonian asylum-seekers deported from the U.S. […]
The US Defense Department is facing a flurry of resignations after lame-duck President Donald Trump fired Pentagon chef Mark Esper. The Pentagon’s top policy official James Anderson, the agency’s top intelligence official Joseph Kernan and Esper’s chief of staff Jen Stewart have reportedly resigned. “I want to thank Dr. Anderson, Admiral Kernan and Jen Stewart […]
At least three people have been killed and some 30 injured in new clashes in Ivory Coast following the contested re-election of President Alassane Ouattarare for a third term. Violence broke out in the south-central town of M’Batto on Tuesday when a protest rally by opposition supporters led to a standoff with local backers of […]
President-elect Joe Biden said on Tuesday that nothing would stop the transfer of power in the U.S. government, while President Donald Trump pursued lawsuits in several states in a long-shot bid to hold on to power. Trump’s campaign said it would file a lawsuit to stop Michigan from officially certifying Biden as the winner there […]
The decision was made before the US presidential election; Donald Trump authorized the United States military to train officers from six so far blacklisted African states. Just days before the US presidential election, the Trump administration said six African nations including Cameroon previously accused of recruiting children into their armies could now receive US military […]
