Armed separatist movements in Cameroon have dismissed the approval of a spacial status to Anglophone regions by the country’s parliament, insisting that only independence would satisfy them. Parliament on Friday granted special status to the North West and South West English-speaking regions to try to calm a separatist insurgency that has killed 2,000 people. The […]
As ethnic tensions threaten Cameroon’s social fabric, the country’s Catholic bishops have warned the country’s citizens about the dangers of moving down the road of tribalism. In a Dec. 10 pastoral letter to the country’s Christians, the bishops’ conference warned that tribalism was a recipe for economic stagnation; a threat to social cohesion, and a […]
The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Agnes Callamard, says a US intelligence report on the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi must reveal the individuals involved in the killing. On Thursday, Callmard told the Middle East Eye (MEE) news portal that those behind the murder of Khashoggi must be identified, and the […]
President Donald Trump on Friday signed off on US sanctions against companies building a Russian natural gas pipeline to Germany that Congress fears will give the Kremlin dangerous leverage over European allies. The sanctions, which are opposed by the European Union, were included in a sprawling defense spending bill Trump signed at a ceremony on […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson won approval for his Brexit deal in parliament on Friday, the first step towards fulfilling his election pledge to deliver Britain’s departure from the European Union by Jan. 31 after his landslide victory. Lawmakers voted by 358 to 234 pass the second reading of the legislation, underlining Johnson’s large majority in […]
After three years of armed protests in the Anglophone region of Cameroon, lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday granting special status to the English speaking regions. The Devolution Bill, if approved by the Senate, will grant the two regions the right to develop their own education and justice policies. The new bill, if approved by […]
A picture shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook posts claims to show 3,500 US troops arriving in Cameroon to replace Cameroonian soldiers in the English-speaking regions of the central African country. The claim is misleading; while the United States Africa Command confirmed the presence of some US troops in Cameroon, AFP established that the […]
In keeping with tradition, President Emmanuel Macron on Friday will celebrate Christmas with French soldiers posted abroad, travelling this year to Ivory Coast as Paris seeks to strengthen regional ties against Islamist militants. Far from protest strikes gripping France, Macron will share a dinner cooked by his personal chef with 1,000 troops at the military base in Port-Bouet, near […]
US Democratic Party lawmakers are pressuring the Republican-controlled Senate to demand President Donald Trump’s top officials to testify in its trial of the impeached president, as they attempt to focus attention on the impeachment trial ahead of the 2020 presidential election. In a historic vote on Wednesday, the US House of Representative impeached Trump on […]
Cameroon Intelligence Report correspondent in Yaoundé has confirmed that the recent attack on the Notre-Dame-des-Victoires cathedral in Yaoundé on Tuesday, December 17, 2019 was staged by a group of gendarmerie officers with strong ties to the regime. Cameroon state media houses had earlier reported that the attack was carried out by armed men who held […]
