The city of Paris marked 75 years since its liberation from Nazi forces in World War II with a Freedom Parade on Sunday. Flag carrying Parisians came out onto the streets in 1940s period costumes as tanks and military vehicles rolled through the French capital to recreate the route taken by Allied forces, led by […]
A Cameroon military tribunal handed life sentences to 10 men who led a secessionist movement in the country’s two English-speaking regions until their arrest in neighboring Nigeria last year. The men were found guilty of charges including acts of rebellion and hostility against the state after a trial that took less than 24 hours and […]
Capital of Cameroon’s North West region, Bamenda, is experiencing a social shutdown following eruption of violence after the recent sentencing of separatist leaders by a military court. According to a BBC witness, businesses have remained closed whiles people have also remained at home for fear of getting caught in clashes. Reports said after Tuesday’s sentencing of Sisuku […]
A bus driver was killed and seven passengers kidnapped when terror group Boko Haram hijacked a commercial bus in Cameroon’s Far North region on Tuesday, Cameroon army said on Wednesday. “There were 19 passengers altogether when the terrorists attacked. The driver was killed on the spot, and seven passengers were kidnapped. The other 11 passengers […]
Tensions are mounting in many cities and towns in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon after a military tribunal slammed a life sentence on Southern Cameroonian leaders. On Wednesday, gunmen chased local business people in Bamenda, Northwest region, from their business locations as they argued that there would be no business given that their leaders […]
When Switzerland offered that they wanted to mediate in the crisis in Southern Cameroons, some of our leaders and comrades jumped up with excitement. They called the initiative credible and said it was an opportunity for us to sit down with La Republique du Cameroun The initiative was immediately endorsed by the international community. Many […]
Vice President Dabney Yerima has said that the massive deployment of French Cameroun soldiers in civilian dressing to Kumba and Bamenda is a move that clearly shows the Biya Francophone regime is offering generous support to militias operating deep inside the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. Speaking to Cameroon Concord News immediately after the Yaounde Military […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has formally inaugurated his new cabinet following a successful re-election earlier this year. The event took place at the presidency in Abuja where 43 ministers – substantive and ministers of state, took their oaths. According to the list, President Buhari maintained his position as Petroleum Minister, a post he has held […]
Sooner or later, even the all-powerful in Africa can be caught, tried and punished. The legion of long-serving, wildly corrupt, hitherto seemingly safe and immune national bosses such as President Paul Biya in Cameroon (37 years in office), President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of oil rich Equatorial Guinea (40 years), President Idriss Déby of Chad […]
A series of deadly attacks and shootings all over the major towns and cities of Southern Cameroons has claimed at least 12 civilians in the two days since the Ambazonia leader President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides were sentenced to life in prison by the Yaoundé Military Tribunal, raising insecurity to a new […]
