Civil rights icon and US House Representative John Lewis announced on Sunday he had been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. The diagnosis followed a “routine medical visit,” Lewis, a 79-year-old Democrat who has repeatedly sparred with President Donald Trump, said in a statement, adding that he would seek treatment while continuing to represent his […]
French Cameroun political elites have reportedly started the process of granting the so-called Special Status to the people of Southern Cameroons as Miss North West, Audrey Nabila Monkam was allowed to win the prestigious Miss Cameroun 2020 crown on Saturday. The Miss Cameroun contest has been a French Cameroun private preserve ever since it was […]
A preliminary criminal investigation against five Cameroonian citizens in a fraud case worth 340,000 U.S. dollars has been completed, Investigation Department of Uzbek Ministry of Internal Affairs said Saturday. Currently all five Cameroonians are under arrest and charged with fraud and money counterfeiting, the police statement said without giving the names of the accused. Cameroonians […]
Former rebel leader and would-be Ivory Coast presidential candidate Guillaume Soro said he would organise “political resistance” from abroad in an interview published Sunday, a day after President Alassane Ouattara warned him and other rivals against destabilising the country. “It is only a question of political resistance,” Soro told French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche following accusations […]
French coastguards rescued 31 migrants trying to cross the English Channel overnight after the engine of one small boat cut out and the other dinghy began to take in water, local authorities in France said on Sunday. Border and coast guards in Britain and France have recently intercepted several attempted crossings, including on Dec. 26 […]
The security team were seen in social media posts trying to use other means to gain access into the building including options of entering through the roof. The armed robbers were said to have stormed the bank, shooting sporadically into the air to scare people away. They were said to have succeeded in gaining entry […]
Msgr. Michael Bibi, Auxiliary Bishop of Bamenda has been appointed by the Holy Father Pope Francis as Apostolic Administrator of Buea Diocese. The appointment was made today 28/12/2019 at 12noon Vatican time. By this appointment also, the Holy Father has accepted the resignation of Mgr. Immanuel Bushu as Bishop of Buea. Rt. Rev. Michael Miabesue […]
Former US Vice-President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said he would not testify in the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Biden said on Friday that he would not comply with a Senate subpoena to testify because it would take the focus off Trump. Trump’s tactic is to “take the focus off” himself, he […]
Cameroon’s Catholic clergy made a special effort to visit the country’s prisons on Christmas Day. “Christ came to free us from all our prisons,” said Archbishop Samuel Kleda as he addressed inmates in the overcrowded New Bell prison in Douala. The prelate said he wasn’t only referring to the physical prisons where people are clamped […]
The Cameroonian war of independence was a “dirty war” waged by French colonial troops but it never made headlines and even today goes untold in school history books. The brutal conflict unfolded in Cameroon, which on January 1 marks its 60th anniversary of independence — the first of 17 African countries that became free from […]
