The United States has advised Cameroon to respect human rights in order to be reinstated as a beneficiary of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), even as authorities in Yaounde insist on their innocence. U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday terminated the Central African nation’s preferential trade benefits from Jan. 1, citing what he […]
Yaya Toure’s red card after 10 seconds and a last-minute winner completed a great escape from relegation for the only English coach in Chinese football. Gary White’s managerial career has taken in the British Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, Guam, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and now mainland China for a second time. But he told AFP […]
US President Donald Trump will survive the ongoing impeachment push in the Congress, says an American analyst, arguing that the Republican head of state would lost much of his support in the process. Myles Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate, said Sunday that while support for impeachment would remain around 50-50 percent for the time […]
From November 1 to November 3rd, more than 300 guests gathered in Colchester with the Sasse Old Boys Association for the 2019 SOBA UK Residential Convention. The SOBA UK show is the biggest and oldest Anglophone Cameroon academic exposition in Europe, and this year the Five Lakes Resort was packed solid as a sea of […]
Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ visited La Republique du Cameroun on Friday and Saturday as part of his working trip to Africa. During the visit, Huệ had talks with Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute, visited the Senate and the National Assembly of the Parliament of French Cameroun, and had working sessions with Vice President of […]
Combat-ready troops were deployed in Cameroon’s capital Saturday as supporters of opposition party leader Maurice Kamto defied a ban on protests against the outcome of the 2018 presidential election. Kamto and his backers contend he won the Oct. 7 election and that his victory was stolen by long-serving President Paul Biya. Kamto was to participate in the protests for the first time since Biya […]
The eastern German city of Dresden has declared a “Nazi emergency” as officials warned of a rise in far-right support and violence. The city is the birthplace of the Islamophobic Pegida movement, which holds weekly rallies here while the anti-immigration Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party won 28 percent in September regional elections. Dresden’s city council on […]
A French soldier was killed in Mali on Saturday after his armoured vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb, France’s presidency said in a statement. Corporal Ronan Pointeau died near Menaka in eastern Mali following “the detonation of an improvised explosive device as his armoured vehicle drove by,” the statement said. President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Pointeau’s “sacrifice” […]
The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces says more than 4,000 Sudanese militiamen fighting alongside Saudi-led military forces against Houthi Ansarullah fighters have been killed and many more injured ever since the Riyadh regime and its allies launched a military aggression against Yemen. Speaking at a press conference in the capital Sana’a on Saturday afternoon, Brigadier General Yahya […]
