Over the last two weeks, a lot has been happening in Yaoundé. The pressure from the United Nations and the United States has triggered a flurry of activities in the nation’s capital and despite their best efforts, the ruling CPDM, popularly known as the crime syndicate that has been made of the mold as the […]
Steven Gerrard has signed a contract extension at Scottish Premiership giants Rangers that will keep him at Ibrox until 2024, the club announced on Friday. The former Liverpool and England player, appointed in May 2018, led the club to a runners-up spot in the league in his first season. On Thursday the 39-year-old guided Rangers […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says his government has got a “powerful new mandate” to deliver Brexit as his ruling Conservative Party won a huge majority in the parliamentary election, according to exit polls. An exit poll and early results suggested that Johnson’s party is set to gain 368 seats, 42 above the 326 needed […]
If given the opportunity again by the United Nations, Southern Cameroonians will overwhelmingly vote for independence. They actually do not want anything more to do with the shambles of today’s La Republique du Cameroun, whose head of state goes on holiday and stays in a five star hotel in Geneva for nine months during worst […]
Election officials were on Thursday evening counting ballots in Algeria’s contentious presidential elections. The country has been leaderless since former leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign in April. Results were not likely until Friday, to be announced by a newly created National Independent Electoral Authority overseeing the voting. The elections were marred with violence […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party will win an overwhelming victory in Britain’s election with a majority of 86 seats in parliament to deliver Brexit on Jan. 31, an exit poll showed on Thursday. The exit poll showed Johnson’s Conservatives would win a landslide of 368 seats, more than enough for a very comfortable majority […]
It was, even by Vice President Dabney Yerima’s standards, a busy day – a meeting with representatives of the Denis Hurley Institute in the morning, a press briefing with the South African state television in the afternoon and a meeting with the Ambazonian community in Rustenburg by the evening. Given this extraordinary schedule, it was […]
Nigerian security forces have used live fire to confront a protest marking the fourth anniversary of state-authorized massacre against the country’s Muslim community. The forces attacking the rally in the capital Abuja on Thursday fired into the air to disperse the protesters, who were commemorating the 2015 bloodletting in the Zaria town of the northern […]
Mankind needs an “ecological conversion,” Pope Francis will say in his annual message of peace, arguing that greater respect for the earth will enable better relations between people. The message, to be read in all Catholic churches on January 1, calls for “listening and contemplation of the world that God has given us as a […]
Ferrari chief executive officer Louis Camilleri said Thursday that it was premature to talk about a possible move of six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton to the Italian team. Camilleri confirmed that Mercedes driver Hamilton has had “conversations” with Ferrari chairman John Elkann, but not with him nor Team Principal Mattia Binotto. “It is common knowledge […]
