Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish National Party (SNP) will start their campaign next week for a second independence referendum – whether Westminster likes it or not. The SNP will be hoping the economic consequences of Brexit will fuel the movement for independence. During the build-up to last Thursday’s British general election, Sturgeon’s message was simple: the future […]
Candidates scheduled to take part in the sixth Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas might skip the event due to an ongoing strike at the university hosting the event. All of the seven candidates said on Friday that they won’t attend the Dec. 19 event due to the labor dispute between workers at Loyola Marymount […]
Former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was sentenced by a court in Khartoum on Saturday to two years in “house arrest” for corruption, a few months after being removed from power by the army under pressure from the street. Mr. Béchir, 75, toppled on April 11 after 30 years in power, had been tried by a […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Britons to put years of bitter divisions over the country’s EU membership behind them as he vowed to use his resounding election victory to finally deliver Brexit next month. Johnson’s ruling Conservatives won their best result for three decades on Thursday night after promising to get Britain out of the European […]
Gabon becoming a monarchy, this is the view of opposition leader Jean Ping and former Prime Minister who served once as African Union Commission chief. The ex-presidential aspirant was speaking to reporters at a press conference in the capital Libreville, in reaction to the appointment of the president’s son as coordinator of presidential affairs. “This […]
Lawmakers in Cameroon are debating a bill that seeks to grant more autonomy to the troubled Anglophone regions. The recent development comes more than two months after the Grand National Dialogue called by government which took place in the capital, Yaoundé. Parts of the new law adopted earlier this week stipulates that court decisions can […]
A group of 9 members of the United States Congress have called on French Cameroun head of state, Paul Biya to demonstrate leadership in resolving the prolonged conflict in Southern Cameroons. In a letter written by Representatives Karen Bass, Christopher H. Smith, Ron Kind, F. James Sensenbrenner Jr, James P McGovern, David M. Cicilline, IIhan […]
At least three soldiers were killed and one seriously injured as armed Ambazonia Restoration Forces ambushed the French Cameroun armed forces on a patrol on Wednesday in Widikum, a locality in Southern Cameroons, Yaoundé said on Thursday. The Southern Cameroons Self Defense forces claimed 10 soldiers were killed in the ambush, but Cameroon army sources […]
Cameroon’s leading prelate has condemned the “deteriorating” human rights situation in the African country. Speaking during a Dec. 10 workshop on the state of human rights in Cameroon, Bishop Abraham Kome of Bafang, the president of the bishops’ conference, said freedom of political expression has been significantly limited. “We have seen the difficulty with which […]
Former prime minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won Algeria’s widely unpopular presidential election without the need for a second-round runoff, the electoral commission said Friday. Tebboune, 74, took 58.15 percent of the vote, trouncing his four fellow contenders, commission chairman Mohamed Charfi announced. Like him, they all served under the two-decade rule of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who […]
