The United States is preparing to develop a new surveillance and intelligence initiative with its allies to ensure what it calls “free and open passage” for ships in the Persian Gulf amid increased tensions in the region, according to a top US military official. This comes a day after Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) […]
For sixteen odd months, Chadians were cut off social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp – with the main government justification hinged on protecting internal security. No amount of appeals, protestations and even a legal challenge succeeded in getting connection to be restored to internet users. In March 2019, an Appeals Court struck out […]
Switzerland officially said it was helping the Biya Francophone government of Cameroon to negotiate with the Southern Cameroons leadership to end the war that has killed more than 3,000 British Southern Cameroonians. But it is now evidently clear that the Swiss are helping the Francophone regime in Yaounde in its genocidal campaign in Southern Cameroons. […]
The record books may not show exactly how Algeria won their first Africa Cup of Nations since 1990 and, in any case, it is probably best left to the imagination. Their performances over the past month merit the accolade and that much cannot be denied; the pity was that they dropped any pretensions towards making this final […]
In an outlandish recourse to superstitious beliefs, the chaplain of the US House of Representatives has staged an emergency prayer intervention inspired by the Catholic exorcism rite to cast out the “spirits of darkness” from Congress. Reverend Patrick Conroy, who has been the chaplain of the lower chamber of Congress since 2011, recited the demon-expelling […]
The downfall of Sudan’s military leader, Omar al-Bashir follows the same trajectory with that of Algeria’s 82-year-old Abdelaziz Bouteflika who was forced to resign, following mass protests against his regime. It was a popular and principled uprising, which shook the Algerian and Sudanese political establishment to their foundations. The denouement also sent a strong message […]
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has said that it has captured a British oil tanker for breaching international maritime law while crossing the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC’s Public Relations Department said in a statement on Friday that the vessel named “Stena Impero” had been impounded “at the request of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Organization when passing through […]
More than a million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Cameroon, as the Anglophone crisis deteriorates in the west of the country. At the end of June, a spokesman for UNICEF, Toby Fricker, said: “Around 450,000 of these people — half of whom are children — are internally displaced. . . “For many children, […]
At least one person died and several others injured when a building collapsed in Cameroon’s commercial capital Douala early Thursday, according to the police. Several more people are feared trapped under the debris of the building, senior police officer Jean Magloire revealed. “The tragedy involved a four-storey building at New Bell Ngangue neighborhood in Douala. […]
Last week, a group of about 50 asylum-seekers from Cameroon protested the immigration process in Tijuana. They say they have been waiting a month or more to request asylum and are running out of money. The number of Cameroonians requesting asylum in the U.S. has increased in recent years according to data from UNHCR, the […]
