Anglophone fighters have clashed with government security forces almost daily in the past two years of the conflict in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, a mostly Francophone country. A month after the government called a five-day National Dialogue to try to stop the violence, it appears the violence is intensifying rather than abating. […]
US President Donald Trump has sent a letter to congress in which he expressed his administration’s decision to terminate the designation of La Republique du Cameroun as a beneficiary nation under the African Growth and Opportunity Act. Below is the full text: In accordance with section 506A(a)(3)(B) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended […]
The controversial mayor of the regional capital of the Southwest, Patrick Ekema, died at the age of 46 on Sunday, 27 October in a private clinic in Douala, following a heart attack. The mayor of Buea was one of the pillars of the struggle against the “Ambazonian” independence fight. The news of his death, which […]
Vice President Dabney Yerima has slammed the Biya Francophone regime over deploying of additional troops to Southern Cameroons, stressing that Yaoundé’s genocidal measures and campaign to exterminate the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia is simply solidifying Southern Cameroonians and their Interim Government’s resolve. Comrade Dabney Yerima noted during this week’s revolutionary updates to […]
The Cameroon Forum for Medical and Paramedical Sciences, Camfomedics now has a new leader. The German-based Non-Governmental Organization recently celebrated its 25th anniversary in the city of Essen. In this chat with the association’s new strongman, Dr Fonyuy Nyuyki, Camcordnews German Bureau Chief Tambe Ndip Arrah presents the man and his style Cameroon Concord News: […]
Facebook said on Wednesday it took down accounts linked to a Russian ally of President Vladimir Putin seeking to spread disinformation on the social network in eight African countries. The operations hiding behind fake identities were linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has been indicted in the United States in connection with an influence campaign targeting […]
Japan’s justice minister on Thursday became the second cabinet member to quit in a week, after allegations his wife broke election law while running for a parliament seat. Katsuyuki Kawai told reporters he had submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe early on Thursday. The move came after the Shukan Bunshun tabloid magazine reported […]
Hundreds of Catalan separatists marched on Wednesday in central Barcelona cutting-off traffic and demonstrating in front of the headquarters of the pro-union center-right Ciudadanos party and the conservative People’s Party as they called for the release of jailed secessionist leaders and for Catalan independence. The pro-independence group CDR (Committee for the Defence of the Republic) organised […]
Samuel Eto’o is up there with George Weah as an African great on the football field, but he says he has no plans to follow the Liberian into politics “for the moment”. “Everyone wants me to go into politics, but there won’t be 10 million Weahs,” Eto’o said in an exclusive interview with AFP. Weah, […]
Over the past month, the government of Cameroon has given various indications that its approach to the Anglophone crisis may be changing. After three years of escalating violence, it opened a Grand National Dialogue on 30 September. A few days later, it gave a presidential pardon to over 300 people who had been arrested on […]
