Thirty-six people have been killed in a suspected militia attack in the eastern DR Congo region of Beni, where hundreds have died in violence since November, a local official said Wednesday. Congolese troops have been carrying out a military operation on an armed group in the east of the country — long plagued by various […]
Nigerian authorities have announced that there is an outbreak of lassa fever in the country. Lassa fever falls within the Ebola family, but it is less dangerous than Ebola. More than 40 persons have already lost their lives due to the deadly fever and there are fears the number might rise in the days ahead.
The leaders of the Ambazonia nation, President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and the Southern Cameroons Interim Government have opined that the people of British Southern Cameroons have no reason to be optimistic about the future of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia in La Republique du Cameroun. From the vicious marginalisation and political victimisation to the systemic […]
China reported its biggest single-day jump in novel coronavirus deaths on Thursday, as confirmation that three Japanese evacuated from the outbreak’s epicentre were infected deepened fears about a global contagion. The World Health Organization, which initially downplayed the severity of a disease that has now killed 170 nationwide, warned all governments to be “on alert” […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has lambasted his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for sending warships and “mercenaries” to crisis-hit Libya, stressing that Ankara is breaching an agreement reached at a summit in Berlin earlier this month to halt foreign interference in the North African country. “These past few days we have seen Turkish warships accompanied […]
The leading US Democratic presidential candidates have slammed President Donald Trump’s so-called deal of the century as a “cynical charade” that would make the Israeli-Palestinian conflict worse. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders used the strongest language of any of the candidates in his criticism of Trump’s plan, calling it “unacceptable,” since “any acceptable peace deal must […]
To His Excellency Mr. Paul BIYA, President of the Republic of Cameroon Your Excellency, We your compatriots schooling and working in Wuhan~ Hubei Province in China, bring our warm wishes for the year 2020. We pray for good health, happiness and peace in our fatherland. Your excellency, We are writing to you directly, because the […]
The extraordinary venom spewed at the pope emeritus and the cardinal by more than a few commentators did not advance the Church’s discussion of the reform of the priesthood one jot or tittle. Immediately after news broke on January 12 that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah had written a book on the […]
While the crisis in Anglophone Cameroon shows no real signs of letting up, on February 9th Cameroonians will nonetheless head to the polls for legislative and municipal elections. The international community’s weak commitment to mediation, the factionalization of the Anglophone movement, and the government’s scorched earth tactics have perpetuated a slow-burning conflict that shows little […]
Five people were killed in an overnight attack by jihadists in the Lake Chad region of northern Cameroon, sources said today. “Five civilians were killed by Boko Haram in Blaram,” a village in the Blangoua district of Cameroon’s Far North region, a local official said. The toll was confirmed to AFP by an army officer […]
