In February the U.S. president cut off his country’s military aid to the central African country of Cameroon because of its appalling human rights record. Sometimes Donald Trump gets it right. In February the U.S. president cut off his country’s military aid to the central African country of Cameroon because of its appalling human rights […]
For 37 years one man has ruled Cameroon, a staggeringly corrupt, oil-rich state in central Africa. President Paul Biya is an old-fashioned autocrat. When democracy swept across Africa after the cold war ended, he called it a “distasteful passing fetish”. Then he realised he would attract less foreign criticism if he quietly intimidated opponents and […]
Symbolic half-measures like revoking preferential trade status are not enough to force the repressive regime of Paul Biya to change. Canceling IMF loans and military aid would show that the White House is serious. On Oct. 31, the Trump administration notified Congress that Cameroon would lose its eligibility status under the African Growth and Opportunity […]
In a remote locality not far away from Mbalmayo known as Nkol Metet, the notorious former French Cameroun defense minister, Remy Ze Meka has reportedly killed at least 3 civilians and injured dozens while driving at lightning speed. French Cameroun Regional military officials have held Mr Remy Ze Meka in an undisclosed location in Nkol […]
The head of the Southern Cameroons Intelligence Agency says Ambazonia Restoration Forces will teach the French Cameroun regime a lesson if provided with modern war equipment. In a recent briefing with Vice President Dabney Yerima on the state of the revolution, the Ambazonia Intel chief told the exiled cabinet on Sunday that the French Cameroun […]
The International Criminal Court sentenced Congolese rebel chief Bosco “Terminator” Ntaganda to 30 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity on Thursday, the highest ever penalty issued by the tribunal. Ntaganda was convicted in July of offences including murder, sexual slavery and using child soldiers in a mineral-rich region of the Democratic Republic of […]
US President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit concerning a New York charity in his name. The New York-based Donald J. Trump Foundation was founded by Trump in 1988 to donate the proceeds from his book Trump: The Art of the Deal to charitable causes. However, records show that Trump […]
More than 855 000 Cameroonian children are out of school following the failure by over 4 000 schools to open for the new academic year. Schools remain closed because of the largely English-speaking North-West and South-West regions beset by conflict between state security and separatists demanding self-rule. More than 4 100 primary and 744 secondary […]
Cameroon and Ajax goalkeeper Andre Onana has said that he would be interested in a move to the English Premier League. “There’s good competition and everyone wants to play here but to play you need to get a chance,” he told BBC Sport. “The Premier League is not for everybody so we will see. Now, […]
The battle for the container terminal concession at the Port Autonome de Douala has taken a decidedly political turn. As reported by the West Africa Newsletter, the intervention by the French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on 23 October (WAN 810) has helped Bolloré, the current concession holder, to suspend the process of awarding the […]
