South African-owned businesses operating in Nigeria are being targeted with violence in retaliation for xenophobic attacks carried out against Africans working in South Africa. Police in South African arrested more than 100 people in five areas impacted by days of violence in Johannesburg and Pretoria. Amid a growing outcry about the attacks on many Nigerians […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says nuclear-armed states cannot forbid Ankara from acquiring nuclear weapons, amid a row with the US over Ankara’s purchase of Russian military hardware. “Some countries have missiles with nuclear warheads, not one or two. But (they tell us) we can’t have them. This, I cannot accept,” he said in a speech […]
Cameroon’s opposition leader, Maurice Kamto says he is relishing the opportunity of taking on Cameroon’s government when he goes on trial in the country’s military court on Friday. Kamto, who was the runner-up in last year’s presidential election is accused of insurrection, despite a chorus of international protest. The charges against Kamto Kamto, together with […]
The Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) has set up an interim committee to oversee league football in the country for the next two years. The move follows the federation’s decision to suspend the activities of Cameroon’s Professional Football League (LPFC) due to alleged repeated breaches of its own statutes. However the LPFC president, General Pierre Semengue, […]
Some 300 new mining sites were discovered in Cameroon in the past five years, Cameroon’s Minister of Mining, Industries and Technological Development Gabriel Dodo Ndoke said on Tuesday. New mines range from gold, zinc, rare earth, uranium, nickel and rutile to manganese, said Ndoke at the 2019 edition of Cameroon International Mining Exhibition and Conference […]
Cameroon on Tuesday sent its sixth contingent of troops to restive Central African Republic (CAR) to join UN peacekeeping forces mission focused on the stabilization and protection of civilian population. Speaking at a send-off ceremony in the capital city, Yaounde, Cameroon’s Defense Minister Joseph Beti Assomo highlighted the peace efforts of Cameroonian troops in the […]
The Yaoundé tyrant Paul Biya is reportedly hiding in a bunker he built some three hundred kilometers away from his palace in his native village of Mvomeka’s after rumour of a military coup spread like wild fire in the nation’s capital over the week end it’s been claimed. The despot left Yaoundé by military convoy […]
Southern Cameroons Vice President Dabney Yerima has called on French Cameroun officials to put an end to their continued harassment of Ambazonia children with their so-called back to school policy. Vice President Yerima observed during a recent meeting with the exiled Southern Cameroons cabinet that French Cameroun’s attempt at stifling the Ambazonia resistance through a […]
A 14-year-old boy has fatally shot five members of his family at their home in the US state of Alabama before disposing of the gun and calling police. The Limestone County sheriff’s office told media on Tuesday that the shooting had occurred overnight in the town of Elkmont. The office said five people — his […]
A cross-party alliance defeated Boris Johnson in parliament on Tuesday in a bid to prevent him taking Britain out of the EU without a divorce agreement – prompting the prime minister to announce that he would immediately push for a snap election. Lawmakers voted by 328 to 301 for a motion put forward by opposition […]
