The regime is Yaoundé has revealed that a total of 272 Mbororos in the Northern Zone have been killed by the Ambazonia Restoration Forces because of their opposition to the armed struggle waged by the people of Southern Cameroons against French Cameroun colonial rule. The Biya regime says the deaths in three years of conflict […]
A Brussels court found a former Rwandan official guilty of genocide Thursday after hearing of his role in the 1994 massacres in his country. Fabien Neretse, who protested his innocence, is the first person to be convicted in Belgium on such a charge and he now faces a possible life sentence. The 71-year-old agricultural scientist […]
Democratic candidates on the 2020 presidential debate stage Thursday quickly attacked Donald Trump one day after his impeachment, saying he is a corrupt president who deserves to be ousted. “We need to restore the integrity of the presidency,” frontrunner Joe Biden said. He accused Trump of “dumbing down the presidency beyond what I even thought […]
Establishment insider Abdelmadjid Tebboune was sworn in Thursday as Algeria’s new president, a week after winning elections marred by mass protests and record abstention. He succeeds veteran leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was forced out in April in the face of mass demonstrations after two decades in office. Tebboune must now address the grievances of the […]
Italian police said Thursday they have arrested 334 people, including a police colonel and a former MP, in a major operation against the southern ‘Ndrangheta organised crime syndicate, considered Italy’s most powerful mafia group. The swoop by helicopter-borne tactical units was the biggest in years and targeted the ‘Ndrangheta in Vibo Valentia — near the […]
Queen Elizabeth II formally opened a new session of Britain’s Parliament on Thursday with a speech laying out Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to use his commanding majority to take the U.K. out of the European Union and shake up the country’s public services. Johnson’s Conservative Party won an 80-strong majority in the 650-seat House of Commons […]
Lawmakers in French Cameroun on Wednesday adopted a draft law on decentralization granting special status to the country’s two English-speaking regions, where a deadly conflict between the army and separatists has been going on for more than two years, according to national radio. The Cameroonian radio station explained that if the law is approved by […]
The clashes that erupted between Cameroon army soldiers and Ambazonia Restoration Forces has for the fourth year running not subsided as the French Cameroun head of state Paul Biya, worked to contain his worst internal crisis in his 37 years in power by placating the people of Southern Cameroons with the so-called Special Status. Just […]
Bolivia’s attorney general on Wednesday ordered the arrest of exiled former president Evo Morales after the interim government accused him of sedition and terrorism. Public prosecutors in La Paz signed a warrant for police to detain the 60-year-old — who is in Argentina — and take him to the attorney general’s office. Morales fled Bolivia […]
Barcelona and Real Madrid have played out a goalless draw in Camp Nou in the first El Clasico of the La Liga season. La Liga’s top two went into the contest level on points this season and with 72 wins each from previous league meetings. Both teams had a number of chances in the first […]
