Catholic bishops from across the Amazon called Saturday for the ordination of married men as priests to address the clergy shortage in the region, an historic proposal that would upend centuries of Roman Catholic tradition. The majority of 180 bishops from nine Amazonian countries also called for the Vatican to reopen a debate on ordaining women as deacons, saying “it is […]
Liverpool came from behind to beat Tottenham 2-1 on Sunday and restore their six-point lead at the top of the Premier League as Manchester United finally remembered how to win on the road. Elsewhere on Sunday, Arsenal squandered a 2-0 lead at home to Crystal Palace to draw 2-2 while 10-man Newcastle held on to […]
Patrick Ekema, the controversial CPDM mayor of Buea, who climbed out of hardscrabble poverty to the Fako County’s highest office only to spend most of his last years killing his own people and making a mockery of Anglo-Saxon values at the University of Buea died Sunday, the 27th of October. The city and the Francophone regime […]
Thousands of separatists clashed with police in central Barcelona Saturday just hours after some 350,000 demonstrators held a peaceful march in the latest mass protest over the jailing of nine separatist leaders. The day had started peacefully, with the city’s streets turned into a sea of flags as a tide of humanity flowed down the […]
Camerooon’s military freed a group of people this week who had been taken hostage by rebels from the Central African Republic. The rebels took 22 locals hostage two weeks ago and held them for ransom. But the military’s raid Thursday night on Garoua Boulai freed 13 Central Africans and Cameroonians. Residents in the Cameroon villages of Mbaimbum, Tchabal and Bigao were still discussing the raid days later. Cattle rancher Muhamady Issa was one of […]
How has it been since the refugee camps started? By October 2017 when this crisis between the Southern Cameroon people and the government of Cameroon started, they got to Nigeria and by our being part of the signatory to the African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) Convention on Refugees, we are not supposed to send […]
Since the struggle for equality and justice by the people of Southern Cameroon against the Francophone north began, leading to an almost endless conflict between separatists from the Anglophone south and government forces, over 500, 000 Cameroonians fleeing from the crisis have been displaced. While some of the displaced have taken refuge in rural areas […]
A Cameroonian journalist who was denied a visa for Australia because the government believed she might not leave has questioned if they made assumptions about her because she is African. Mimi Mefo, an award-winning journalist who is currently based in Berlin and working for Deutsche Welle, was booked to appear at the Integrity 20 conference […]
It’s not just nuclear-capable jets arriving from Russia on the African continent this week – Russian influence is also coming in to land. These two Tupolev strategic bombers arrived in South Africa on a training mission on Wednesday (October 23), coinciding with Russian President Vladimir Putin hosting dozens of African heads of state for a […]
Some 67 people were killed in Ethiopia’s Oromia state this week as protests against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed morphed into ethnic clashes, police said Friday. “The total number dead in Oromia is 67,” said Kefyalew Tefera, the regional police chief. “There are about 55 of them killed by the conflict between them, between the civilians […]
