As Brexit hysteria tightens its grip on Britain, there are unconfirmed reports that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to hold an early general election to stave off a parliamentary revolt on Brexit. The Guardian reported on August 18 that No 10 Downing Street is increasingly on an “election footing”, with Conservative party advisers coming […]
To speak English fluently in a world where the language is the lingua franca of trade and diplomacy is usually a big win in the lottery of life except in Cameroon where English as a mother tongue has become a curse, thanks to a colonial conundrum that made Anglophone underdogs in a union with overwhelmingly […]
Cameroonian prime minister Joseph Dion Ngute has inaugurated the national command centre for video surveillance in the capital Yaounde, reports Agence Ecofin. The 800 square metre facility will enable police forces to process data from a security network that currently counts 2,000 cameras, with 7,000 planned in the near future. The surveillance system has been […]
The Cameroon defender requested his omission from the team’s opening league match against Sassuolo on Sunday. Torino president Urbano Cairo is furious about Nicolas N’Koulou’s situation at the club and has demanded the defender apologise to his teammates. N’Koulou, who has been heavily linked with a move to league rivals Roma this summer, missed the […]
At least three people died after a ferry belonging to Cameroon’s shipping company Achouka sank off Cameroon’s Atlantic coast Sunday evening, according to local authorities. About 200 passengers were on board the ferry, which left neighbouring Nigeria and was heading to Tiko wharf in Cameroon’s Southwest region, a Cameroon navy official who preferred not to […]
Tens of thousands of people have deserted Cameroon’s conflict prone English-speaking regions after a bloody weekend. Fighting between the military and separatists left at least 40 people dead, and a prominent Catholic bishop was abducted. The renewed fighting comes after a military tribunal ordered separatist leaders imprisoned for life. The new violence has dashed hopes […]
Felix Agbor Balla Nkongho is a leading Cameroonian lawyer and award-winning human rights advocate. Nkongho was detained for nine months for taking part in protests against the marginalisation of the legal and education systems in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon. The Francophone government responded with deadly violence marked by gross human rights violations. Nkongho (49) […]
A prominent Catholic bishop in Cameroon has been released by his abductors in the country’s volatile English-speaking Northwest region. “Bishop George Nkuo of Kumbo Diocese has been released by his captors. He is back in the parish and in good health,” the officials said in a statement. Armed separatists claimed responsibility for kidnapping the bishop […]
A shooting at a house party in New Mexico has left three people dead and four others injured, authorities say. The incident happened on Sunday morning in the city of Hobbs, which is located in Lea County, in the southeast corner of the state near the Texas border. Khalil Carter, 18, of Hobbs; Kristal Avena, 24, of Hobbs, and […]
Five generals from the Turkish army have handed in resignations in the wake of a military council meeting earlier this month, opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet said on Sunday. The Supreme Military Council (YAS), chaired by President Tayyip Erdogan, convened to discuss promotions, dismissals and placements of the high-ranking military personnel on Aug 1. The resignations by […]
