United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, is in Cameroon to evaluate progress made in the protection and promotion of human rights as an armed conflict ravages the two English-speaking regions of the country. On Thursday, Bachelet, who is invited by the Cameroonian government, met with top government officials including foreign minister, interior […]
The US House of Representatives has passed legislation that would prevent President Donald Trump from withdrawing Washington from the Paris climate accord. The Democratic-controlled House on Thursday voted 231 to 190 to pass the act. But the Republican-led Senate is not likely to approve the measure, which would bar federal funds from being used to […]
A total of 27 000 dollars has already been donated by Southern Cameroonians and several prominent elites in the Diaspora towards relief efforts in Ground Zero. The donations were made to the Ambazonia Interim Government after President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe dissolved the caretaker cabinet that was headed by the disgraced Dr Samuel Ikome Sako. A […]
Relations between the largely Anglophone regions of Cameroon and the country’s dominant Francophone elite have long been fraught. Over the past three years, tensions have escalated seriously and since October 2017 violent conflict has erupted between armed separatist groups and the security forces, with both sides being accused of committing human rights abuses. The tensions […]
After twenty months of clashes, the government and the separatists are both refusing to give ground. Both sides must explore compromise solutions aimed at a level of regional autonomy somewhere between the secession the separatists yearn for and the fake decentralisation proposed by Yaoundé. What’s new? The conflict in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon is deadlocked. […]
Cameroon, a country previously known for its stability, faced violence and serious human rights abuses in 2018. The country endured abusive military operations against a secessionist insurgency in two Anglophone regions, attacks by the Islamic militant group, Boko Haram, in the Far North, and a worsening humanitarian crisis. President Paul Biya, 85, won a seventh […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has denounced Washington’s “destructive” support for Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido, who lately claimed the backing of the armed forces in a short-lived coup against President Nicolas Maduro. “Washington’s interference in Venezuelan affairs is a flagrant violation of international law,” Lavrov said in a phone call with US Secretary of State Mike […]
Message from President Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe 1st May 2019 Dear Compatriots Southern Cameroonian/Ambazonians, After sufficient review, reflections and consultations upon developments since January 5th 2018, and placing the paramount interest of Southern Cameroons aka Ambazonia’s quest for securitization of our restored national identity and independence, and in full discharge of the moral and legal […]
The African Union, AU, has given Sudan’s Transitional Military Council, TMC, two months to handover power to a civilian-led transition team. The latest move issued on April 30 becomes the third deadline in under two months. The current and first deadlines were issued by the AU’s Peace and Security Council. Parts of its communiqué read: […]
The Cameroon international has put pen to paper on a new deal that will keep him with the Seagulls until 2020. Gaetan Bong has signed a one-year contract extension with Premier League side Brighton and Hove Albion. The 31-year-old joined the Seagulls in June 2015 from Wigan Athletic and helped them to secure promotion to […]
