African football’s ruling body has scrapped a $1 billion television and marketing rights deal with Lagardere Sports in the wake of separate judgments that it breached competition rules, but Lagardere said it would fight to enforce the contract. The French-based company called the Confederation of African Football’s (CAF) move “unlawful, unreasonable and unjustified” and said […]
US President Donald Trump traveled to the deep South on Saturday to watch a hotly anticipated college football match and bask in the adulation of fans in the staunchly conservative region. Trump, the target of an impeachment investigation that has consumed Washington, was greeted with loud cheers from the crowd of more than 100,000 when […]
“Raise not your hand against the Anointed of Yahweh”(1Sam.26:11) (Pastoral Letter to all the Christians and People of Good will in the Diocese of Mamfe about the recent Kidnapping of Priests in Central Ejagham Area, in Mamfe Diocese) My dear People of God, When the Diocese of Mamfe was created on the 9th of […]
A man was shot and killed on November 4 by gendarmes trying to clear a path through heavy traffic for the president of Chad’s National Assembly, Haroun Kabadi. After the tragedy, many Chadians took to social media to express outrage at Kabadi’s security detail, particularly because this isn’t the first time they’ve been involved in a […]
Congolese forces have said on Saturday they have killed 25 Takfiri militants since launching an offensive against them late last month in an eastern region also struggling with an Ebola outbreak. Seven soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo had also died since the campaign to root out the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia began […]
Cameroonian President Paul Biya on Friday declared a national day of mourning on Saturday to honor 43 people killed by a landslide in the western city of Bafoussam last week. “Flags will be flown at half-mast throughout the country, as well as at Cameroonian embassies and consular offices abroad,” Biya said in a statement released […]
On a plantation in Tiko, in south-west Cameroon, Adeline rubs the gap in her right hand where her index finger used to be. She arrived in the town in July 2018, having fled Ekona, 15 miles away. In that village soldiers terrified civilians by burning houses and shooting indiscriminately as part of a crackdown on militias […]
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Mr. Amadou Sy, visited Yaoundé during October 28—November 8, 2019 to discuss the fifth review of the program supported by the ECF that was approved in June 2017 . At the conclusion of this visit, Mr. Sy issued the following statement: “The IMF team reached staff-level agreement with the […]
US President Donald Trump has once again blasted the rapidly progressing impeachment inquiry against him after Democrats in the House of Representatives released more damaging details of two testimonies as part of the probe. On Friday, House investigators leading the impeachment probe released the testimony of Alexander Vindman, a US Army officer and Ukraine expert […]
The “brutal” prison conditions of Egypt’s former president, Mohamed Morsi, may have directly led to his death, according to a report by UN experts. “Dr. Morsi was held in conditions that can only be described as brutal, particularly during his five-year detention in the Tora prison complex,” a panel of UN experts – including Agnes […]
