A group of Democratic lawmakers in the US Senate have called on the Federal Reserve to investigate President Donald Trump’s relationship with Germany’s Deutsche Bank over alleged suspicious transactions. The Democratic senators urged top officials in the Federal Reserve in a letter on Thursday to investigate Deutsche Bank AG’s ties with the US president and […]
A hundred members of the opposition Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC) were freed Thursday following their arrest during demonstrations last week, the party told AFP. However MRC vice president Mamadou Mota, who was also detained on June 1, remains in detention, the same opposition party source said. “Today 100 of our members, arrested on Saturday… have been […]
Prospects for talks between authorities and separatist movements to end escalating violence in Cameroon’s English-speaking region are slim, a senior human rights official said on Friday (Jun 7), dismissing assertions by both sides to be open to dialogue. A separatist insurgency broke out in 2017 following a government crackdown on peaceful protests in the English-speaking […]
It is almost one week since Cameroon’s lone oil refinery went up in smoke and the scale of the destruction is now obvious to everybody. SONARA will be out of business for at least three years and the government will have to come up with a huge chunk of money if it must have its […]
“Dear Madam Chancellor,” Hoffmann’s letter from June 4, 2019 reads, “The conflict between the Anglophone and Francophone regions of the country continues to claim lives and has lead to a massive abuse of human rights.” The member of the German parliament, the Bundestag, wrote the letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel shortly after his return from Cameroon. Hoffmann, a […]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed appeals from the Comoros Football Federation (FFC) over Cameroon’s involvement in the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations. Comoros lodged the complaint after the Indomitable Lions were retained in the continental showpiece even though they’d been stripped of the hosting rights by Caf. In their first appeal […]
When separatist violence forced 16-year-old Awa Bless Chi to flee his home in Cameroon’s North West region earlier this year, there were many things he had to leave behind. He couldn’t take the drawing board or working table where he’d spent long hours teaching himself engineering by building motors for toy cars. And he had […]
As Cameroon tops a list of the most neglected crises, the world must help those in need and demand an end to attacks on civilians Mary hands me two tattered photos. In the first, family members stand proudly outside their modest home in Buea, South-West Cameroon. In the second, an empty plot remains, their wooden […]
The world’s 10 most displacement crises—rendering millions of people homeless– have continued to worsen due either to political neglect, a shortage of funds or lack of media attention, according to a new report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). NRC Secretary-General Jan Egeland says humanitarian assistance should be given based on needs– and needs […]
Item 1: Atrocities in Wum, Menchum County: On Monday the 3rd of June 2019, we were stunt by a video on social media. It clearly showed the Cameroon military coordinating and inciting an armed gang of young men in Wum, Menchum County. These armed men purporting to represent the Bororo community, attacked their neighbours, the […]
