Nine people were injured on Sunday in the blast of an artisanal bomb in a Yaoundé bar, the government announced on Monday. It was the fourth in a series of attacks of this kind in less than five months in the Cameroonian capital. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. In a press release published […]
US President Donald Trump has warned of “rampant and unchecked cheating” after a Supreme Court ruling on Pennsylvania absentee ballots. “The Supreme Court decision on voting in Pennsylvania is a VERY dangerous one,” Trump tweeted, adding that it “will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws. The ruling would […]
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has provisionally won a third term in office with 94.27% of the vote, the electoral commission announced early on Tuesday, after a bitter election that sparked deadly violence and was boycotted by opposition voters. “Thus elected president of the republic, Alassane Ouattara,” Kuibiert-Coulibaly Ibrahime, the head of the electoral commission […]
It is estimated that tens of thousands of minors are involved in prostitution in Cameroon today. The phenomenon is on the rise and is becoming commonplace. According to the Francophone dominated police sources, some prostitutes are in the grip of well-organised pimping networks. Many minors prostitute themselves for economic reasons. “I’ve been working the streets […]
The Anglophone problem in Cameroon is often described as the evolution of the Anglophone’s awareness from the feeling of being marginalised, exploited and homogenised politically, economically and socially by the Francophone-dominated state and even the Francophone population. The failure to promote the rule of law and democracy creates an environment for conflict, often exacerbated by […]
On 6 December, Africa’s oldest serving leader, Paul Biya, and his ruling party, Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (RDPC), will be declared the winner of the country’s first ever regional elections. That much is clear, and is expected inside and outside of the west African country – Biya has misruled with an iron fist for nearly […]
Calling Joe Biden his “brother”, Barack Obama on Saturday accused Donald Trump of failing to take the coronavirus pandemic and the presidency seriously, as Democrats leaned on America’s first Black president to energize Black voters in battleground state Michigan on the final weekend of the 2020 campaign. Obama, the 44th president, and Biden, his vice […]
There has been so much media speculation about the health of the Director of the Presidential Security, General Ivo Yenwo. The military leader who hails from Southern Cameroons has not been seen in the public eye for more than a year now. Ivo Yenwo was even suspected to be dead last year. Now, a Cameroon […]
The panic that is within the ranks of the ruling crime syndicate is testament to the fact that the government is under enormous pressure. When the political opposition called for a nation-wide demonstration on September 22, 2020, to root out the country’s sit-tight, ailing and incompetent president, Paul Biya, from power, surrogates of the old […]
The Coalition for Dialogue and Negotiations conducted a survey of Southern Cameroonians from October 16 – 24 to gauge their aspirations on key aspects of their homeland. This survey that drew three thousand seven hundred and forty-nine (3,749) respondents is probably the largest survey of its kind of Southern Cameroonians. 1A similar survey conducted by […]
