The Anglophone Crisis has ravaged an area of Cameroon that is home to more than 3.5 million people – approximately a seventh of the country’s population – and yet it remains one of the world’s forgotten conflicts. General strikes and protests beginning in 2016 gave way to a formal declaration of independence the following year, […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel went into quarantine on Sunday after being informed that a doctor who administered a vaccine to her tested positive for the coronavirus. The news came as Germany introduced strong new measures to slow the spead of the virus. Merkel’s spokesman said the chancellor was informed about the doctor’s test shortly after […]
The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Paralympic Committee (CPC) said on Sunday that Team Canada will not participate in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2020 due to concerns about the outbreak of the coronavirus. Opposition to holding the Games in July has risen sharply in the past 48 hours, with several […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) says lockdowns are not enough to defeat the coronavirus pandemic, noting that public health measures are still needed to avoid a resurgence of the virus once the restrictions are lifted. “What we really need to focus on is finding those who are sick, those who have the virus, and isolate […]
Voters in the West African state of Guinea began casting their ballots on Sunday in a bitterly-disputed referendum that critics say is a ploy by President Alpha Conde to stay in power, and that was almost immediately marred by sporadic violence. Conde is proposing a change to the constitution to codify gender equality and introduce […]
Southern Cameroons Self Defense Forces have attacked a French Cameroun military convoy transporting officials and voting materials to Batibo ahead of today’s legislative election rerun. Cameroon Concord News sources in the Northern Zone have all hinted of several life threatening injuries. We gathered that Ambazonia Restoration Forces providing security in the Momo County were compelled […]
The ruling CPDM party is presently staging a counterfeit rerun of the parliamentary elections in Southern Cameroons. The Biya Francophone regime that has remained defiant to the international community amid scare of the deadly coronavirus opened polls in 10 parliamentary constituencies in the Northern Zone of Ambazonia. Yaounde banned gatherings of more than 50 persons […]
Italian football club Napoli has announced that they will resume training sessions from March 25, despite the coronavirus crisis which has led to a national lockdown. The club said in a statement that the full squad will restart training at the Technical Center on March 25 with a morning session. Meanwhile, the other Serie A […]
France has recorded 112 coronavirus deaths in a day, taking its total to 562, the health ministry said on Saturday. There have been 14,459 confirmed cases, the ministry said in a statement. It said 1,525 people were in severe condition out of the 6,172 who were currently in hospital. Half the severe cases were people […]
Syria, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, the Sahel… with the great powers focused intently on the COVID-19 virus, will armed conflicts across the world decrease in severity or intensify? Experts as well as diplomats at the United Nations say there is a serious risk of the latter. For guerrilla fighters and extremist groups, “it’s a clear godsend,” […]
