A political group from Yaoundé and a sea of French Cameroun army soldiers posing as bike riders heavily funded by French Cameroun’s Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji have organized a raucous rally in Bamenda, the chief city in the Northern Zone of Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia calling on the occupying Biya regime to reform bike […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) called on African countries Thursday to maintain tough measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus as some countries began easing lockdowns including South Africa, which has recorded Africa’s highest Covid-19 death toll. Faced with Covid-19, many African countries have implemented partial or total containment measures to stop the spread […]
Legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, who created afrobeat along with his old bandmate Fela Kuti, died suddenly at the age of 79 in Paris on Thursday, his manager told AFP. “We don’t know the exact cause of death,” manager Eric Trosset said, adding it was not linked to the coronavirus. “He was in great shape, […]
French Cameroun Minister of Public Health, Manaouda Malachie refused to receive on Thursday, April 30, 2020 a donation to combat the deadly coronavirus from opposition leader Prof Maurice Kamto. “This is typical of Francophone politics. The opposite would have come as a surprise because the French Cameroun government, through its Minister of Territorial Administration, had […]
US President Donald Trump has threatened China with new tariffs amid the coronavirus outbreak he blames Beijing for. Trump said Thursday his ongoing trade deal negotiations with the Asian country were now of secondary importance to the virus pandemic as his administration crafted retaliatory measures over the outbreak. “We signed a trade deal where they’re […]
Frédéric Nguiema Nzie a Sub-Lieutenant of the French Cameroun army recently assigned to head an operation with the Rapid Intervention Battalion (RIB) has been killed by Ambazonia Restoration Forces in Mamfe, the chief town in the Manyu County. Sub-Lieutenant Frédéric Jeunesse Nguiema Nzie, enlisted in the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR), and deployed as part of […]
A vaccine against Covid-19 developed in Britain has shown very encouraging results on rhesus macaque monkeys, among the animals closest to humans. The scientists working on the vaccine estimate that if they can prove its effectiveness, it could be ready as soon as September. Its name is a mouthful, but it’s the vaccine on everyone’s […]
The city of New York has delivered a freezer truck to a funeral home after it was found to be storing dead bodies in unrefrigerated U-Haul vehicles, a Reuters eyewitness says. The eyewitness saw bodies in a U-Haul van and said two vans and a truck were parked outside the funeral home. ABC News reported […]
Armed groups are fighting for a separate state in English-speaking parts of Cameroon and government forces are hitting back with brute force. Caught in the crossfire, civilians are trying to stay alive in a deadly conflict the world knows little about. In 2016, as lawyers, students and teachers in the English-speaking parts of Cameroon began […]
France’s gross domestic product contracted 5.8 percent in the first quarter and is officially in a recession, mainly because of the coronavirus lockdown imposed since mid-March, the national statistics agency said Thursday. The drop is the biggest since quarterly GDP evaluations began in 1949, exceeding the third quarter 1.6 percent drop in 2009 and the […]
