The United States has imposed sanctions on two Turkish ministries and three senior government officials over the country’s military offensive against Kurdish militants in northern Syria. The US Department of the Treasury said in a statement on Monday that it has imposed sanctions on Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Energy and […]
The Commons returned Monday with a Queen’s speech that marked the start of the parliamentary year by laying out the government’s domestic agenda. The theme of the speech, written by number 10, was of course Brexit and what might follow. The speech will be debated by MPs throughout the week. Mr Johnson submitted new Brexit […]
The death toll from Typhoon Hagibis in Japan, the worst to hit the country in decades, has risen to 66, amid diminishing hopes of finding any survivors. The national broadcaster NHK said on Tuesday that 15 people had been missing since the storm hit central and eastern Japan on Saturday night. Typhoon Hagibis, which means […]
The Council today adopted the following conclusions on Cameroon: The EU welcomes the halting of prosecution by the military courts of Maurice Kamto and supporters of his party, the Cameroon Renaissance Movement, and of individuals arrested and detained in the context of the crisis in the North-West and South-West regions. These decisions are a significant […]
Journalists in Nigeria are working in a “climate of fear” due to the detention of dozens of reporters and bloggers in the country this year, Amnesty International has said in a report. Osai Ojigho, the Amnesty Nigeria director, on Monday accused the Nigerian police, military and the Department of State Services (DSS) secret police of […]
US-based economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer have won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their work in fighting poverty that has helped millions of children around the world. French-American Duflo becomes only the second female economics winner in the prize’s 50-year history, as well as the youngest at 46. She shared the […]
The so-called Major National Dialogue was convened to reactivate the North West/South West Divide all in a bid to stifle the Southern Cameroons revolution. It was a successful failure and the Southern Cameroons pro Yaoundé political elites are now at daggers drawn positions. Chief V.E. Mukete held a secret meeting with all the delegates from […]
From an inter-community conflict, protesters and indigenes of Sangmelima, are now calling for the release of prisoners who hail from the South region. CNA correspondent said the demonstrators vowed to continue the campaign, adding that if Kamto is freed, then all bigwigs from the region currently in jail need to be freed too. Armed with […]
US Senator Bernie Sanders has lashed out at President Donald Trump for his decision to withdraw American troops from northeastern Syria, calling him a liar for abandoning long-time Kurdish militant allies in the region. “The difference between Trump and me is he lies. I don’t,” Sanders said in an interview with ABC on Sunday. “You […]
Tunisia’s Kais Saied won the presidential election with 76.9% of votes, according to state television. Kais Saied, 61, got more than 50 percent ahead of Nabil Karoui, a media mogul who was prosecuted for tax evasion. He had 23.11% of votes. The announcement elicited tears of joy from supporters of Saied in the streets of […]
