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Southern Cameroons Crisis: AU, Commonwealth and Francophonie in joint bid to help quell violence

Southern Cameroons Crisis: AU, Commonwealth and Francophonie in joint bid to help quell violence

A high-powered delegation of leaders of the African Union Commission, the Commonwealth, and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie arrived in Cameroon Tuesday to help end years of a bloody conflict that has ravaged the country’s English-speaking western regions. La Francophonie ✔@OIFfrancophonie The joint mission is comprised of the Chairperson of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat; the Secretary-General of […]

Release of hundreds of Ambazonia detainees hint at pressure from Washington, London

Release of hundreds of Ambazonia detainees hint at pressure from Washington, London

President Paul Biya on Thursday ordered the release of several hundred detainees linked to the separatist crisis in Cameroon‘s anglophone regions as talks on the turmoil ended their fourth day. “The president has asked for the release of more than 330 people who have been arrested because of the troubles in the Northwest and Southwest” […]

US: Widespread snow, storms create Thanksgiving travel headaches

US: Widespread snow, storms create Thanksgiving travel headaches

Two winter storms blasted parts of the United States on Wednesday, disrupting travel plans for millions of Americans who typically jam the country’s highways and airports to visit family and friends over the long Thanksgiving weekend. One of the hardest-hit areas was Minnesota’s Twin Cities region, which was blanketed in white by the same system […]

WHO says Measles killing more in Congo-Kinshasa than Ebola

WHO says Measles killing more in Congo-Kinshasa than Ebola

Measles has killed more than 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January, more than double the toll in the country’s Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organization says. “The DRC (measles) outbreak is the largest outbreak worldwide. It is one of the largest that we have seen,” Kate O’Brien, the director of the WHO’s […]

Eto’o aims to use studies to ‘give back to Africa’

Eto’o aims to use studies to ‘give back to Africa’

African football legend Samuel Eto’o says he wants to use his business management studies at Harvard Business School in the USA to give back to Africa. The four-time African Player of the Year winner announced his retirement from football at the age of 38 in September. Eto’o believes crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the United States […]

Bishop Nkea fears his kidnap after abduction of three priests

Bishop Nkea fears his kidnap after abduction of three priests

Bishop Andrew Nkea of the Mamfe Diocese says youths have threatened to kidnap him after abducting three other priests. Catholic Bishop Andrew Nkea says he was blackmailed by boys from his Mamfe diocese, who told their victims he would be next if he didn’t pay them £655. Three men, Father Felix Sunday, parish priest of […]

Guinea-Bissau poll: ECOWAS has standby army to prevent a coup

Guinea-Bissau poll: ECOWAS has standby army to prevent a coup

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Monday warned it had a standby military force poised to “re-establish order” in the event of a coup in Guinea Bissau. The warning came as the West African states rejected claims of ballot fraud in Sunday’s election despite claims by incumbent Jose Mario Vaz’s campaign team […]

Southern Cameroons Crisis: Bishop Nkea threatens kidnappers with excommunication

Southern Cameroons Crisis: Bishop Nkea threatens kidnappers with excommunication

A bishop in Cameroon has described how local youth kidnapped three priests in his diocese and that their main target is the bishop himself. Bishop Andrew Nkea said: “boys” from villages in his Mamfe diocese were behind the abduction of the priests and had told their victims that unless the bishop pays the youths money […]

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