In the run up to the so-called National Day on May 20 – in New York, before having Inner City Press roughed up and banned, Guterres’ chief of staff Maria Luiza Viotti and his Deputy SG Amina J. Mohammed partied with Tommo Monthe in a Manhattan townhouse singing “Buvez du champagne,” Video here, from 4:30 — this: “The insecurity in the […]
The remains of nearly 85,000 people murdered in Rwanda’s genocide were laid to rest Saturday in a sombre ceremony in Kigali, a quarter of a century after the slaughter. Mourners sobbed as 81 white coffins containing the remains of 84,437 victims of the 1994 mass killings were buried at the Nyanza Genocide Memorial in the […]
With overwhelming grief and respect, Dr Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung, a devoted doctor, epidemiologist, husband and father who had worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) for the past five years, was buried on Saturday in his native Cameroon. Dr Mouzoko, 41, died from a gunshot wound sustained during an attack by assailants on 19 […]
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Ms. Corinne Deléchat, visited Yaoundé during April 23—May 3, 2019 to conduct discussions on the fourth review of the program supported by the Extended Credit Facility (ECF)[1] that was approved in June 2017. At the conclusion of this visit, Ms. Deléchat issued the following statement: “The IMF team reached […]
I am afraid the groundwork is being laid for a Jonas Savimba and a South Sudan situation in Ambazonia especially in the light of the action of a local Amba commander meddling in matters political, matters that appertain exclusively to the civil order. The reality is that the IG is yet to live up to […]
The UN Security Council will hold a first informal meeting on Cameroon this month to discuss a worsening humanitarian crisis that has left three million people struggling for food. The United States is organizing the May 13 meeting after persuading African countries on the council to drop their initial reluctance to talks on the two-year […]
US President Donald Trump and a senior Democrat in Congress are increasing pressure on US Attorney General William Barr over the report on the Russia probe, making new demands on him after an already tough week for the chief of the US Justice Department. Trump said Friday it will be up to Barr to decide […]
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, journalists in Cameroon are protesting what they said are abuses by both the government and separatists fighting for the independence of the English-speaking areas from the majority French-speaking state. More than two dozen journalists said they have been arrested or threatened since the separatist conflict began. Hundreds […]
At least 1,850 Southern Cameroonians have been killed and 530,000 internally displaced and tens of thousands of refugees registered in the past 20 months as a result of the war in Southern Cameroons, Brussels-based International Crisis Group has revealed. In its latest report published on Thursday May 2, the International Crisis Group pointed out that […]
Roman Catholic Bishops in Cameroon have condemned the handling of the Southern Cameroons crisis by President Biya and his gang of ruling Francophone Beti Ewondo elites accusing the political leadership in Yaoundé of giving a deaf ear to calls for dialogue. Speaking during the 44 plenary session of the Cameroon Episcopal National Conference, the outgoing […]
