Cameroon government officials are quietly relieved that, during its recent condemnation of the killings at Ngarbuh, the United States administration made no commitment to eventual US recognition of an independent state of Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia. Less pleasing in the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo government eyes is the fact that the United States government has asked for […]
Donald Trump’s longtime ally Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison for impeding a congressional investigation, in a case that ignited a firestorm over the US president’s political interference in the justice system. Stone, a veteran Republican operative and one of the president’s oldest confidants, was convicted in November of lying to […]
Thousands of people took part in vigils across Germany on Thursday after a gunman with apparent far-right beliefs killed nine people at a shisha bar and a cafe in the city of Hanau. Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the “poison” of racism, as anger mixed with grief over the latest and deadliest attack linked to Germany’s […]
After nominating the first black president and the country’s first female nominee, respectively, Democrats are about to nominate someone who would be the first octogenarian president ever. Front-runner Bernie Sander and billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who bought his way to third-place, are both 78 years old. If the socialist wins the presidency, he wouldn’t just be […]
Paris Saint-Germain chief Nasser Al-Khelaifi and FIFA’s disgraced former secretary general Jerome Valcke have been indicted in Switzerland for alleged corruption in the attribution of football broadcasting rights. The Swiss attorney general’s office (OAG) said in a statement on Thursday that the two had been charged “in connection with the award of media rights to […]
“Cameroon needs a bail-out. Not an economic bail-out. The country is crumbling, the world should stop playing spectator to an insidious genocide that is playing out in the country’s two English-speaking regions,” Dr. Joachim Arrey in an interview with the Cameroon Concord News Group Editor-in-Chief, Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai. Cameroon Concord News: We are always happy […]
A Catholic priest says the latest atrocity in the ongoing unrest in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions is “not acceptable in the 21st century. At least 22 people were killed on Feb. 14 in the Ngarbuh district of Ntumbo in Cameroon’s Northwest Region – one of two English-speaking regions in the country. Locals say members of the […]
The Commonwealth yesterday condemned the killing of 23 people in Cameroon’s northwest region. A village in the southern part of Cameroon was attacked last Friday, leaving 23 civilians, especially children dead. Condemning the attack, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland called for an impartial investigation into the incident. The statement, which was signed by Scotland’s media aide, […]
US President Donald Trump is expected to name US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell to be acting director of national intelligence, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday (February 19). Grenell, a strong supporter of Trump’s policies, would replace Joseph Maguire, who has been acting director of national intelligence since August. The move […]
Two shootings in Germany have killed at least eight people and injured five others, with an unknown number of attackers still at large, police and media said. The shootings late Wednesday targeted two shisha bars in Hanau, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Frankfurt, according to local media, where police launched a huge manhunt for […]
