A top judge in Gabon who recently admitted a case challenging the eligibility of President Ali Bongo to continue in office has been suspended by the Ministry of Justice, local news portal Gabonactu has reported. The case in question surrounds the president’s health following months abroad for treatment and recuperation from a stroke. On August […]
Father Gabriel Afumbom of St. John the Baptist Church in Bamenda, Cameroon, spoke about the crisis in his country during Mass, urging Christians to rely on the Rosary, calling it the weapon handed over by the Virgin Mary to fight evil. “Through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the best way to fight evil […]
A military tribunal in Cameroon has sentenced 10 leaders of the country’s Anglophone separatist movement to life in prison, which critics say will hurt efforts to end the separatist crisis through dialogue. Julius Ayuk Tabe, president of the self-declared Republic of Ambazonia, and nine of his collaborators were sentenced Tuesday by Colonel Misse Njone Jacques […]
Cameroonian authorities held over 100 detainees incommunicado and tortured many of them in a detention facility in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital, from July 23 to August 4, 2019. The detainees were transferred to the facility, the State Defense Secretariat (Secrétariat d’État à la défense, SED), the morning after inmates in Yaoundé’s Central Prison rioted on July 22 […]
The politically motivated life sentences slammed on Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and nine Ambazonian leaders by a Court-martial in Cameroun with the complicity of the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is one more unfortunate example of the militarisation of justice, civil and political rights in African through inter-state terror. The ten victims, who were […]
The principle that French Cameroun political elites who are all militants and barons of the ruling CDPM crime syndicate in Yaoundé should not make representations to judges concerning court cases be it in the Yaoundé Military Tribunal or High Courts is a good one that has never been accepted by President Biya ever since he […]
Manchester United are working on identifying individuals who racially abused Paul Pogba online after the midfielder missed a penalty in Monday’s 1-1 draw at Wolverhampton Wanderers, the Premier League club said on Tuesday. Pogba won a late penalty but had his effort from the spot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Rui Patricio. The draw cost […]
After close to three years, it seems the Yaounde government has learned nothing. The leaders seem to blind to the changes taking place around them. They seem to be stuck in their old mentality of wanting to send home strong messages. Strong messages no longer threaten Cameroonians, especially the Southern Cameroonian, who has seen his […]
Unidentified militants killed more than a dozen soldiers in northern Burkina Faso Monday in what the army described as a “major attack” by “terrorist armed groups”. A “provisional report” by Burkina Faso’s army put the toll at “more than a dozen” soldiers killed and several wounded. With some soldiers still missing, the death toll could hit […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday vowed to prevent the emergence of any mass demonstrations in Moscow like the “yellow vest” anti-government protests that erupted in France late last year. “We would not want such a thing to happen in the Russian capital,” Putin said after talks with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the Bregancon […]
