A top French court on Friday rejected an appeal by former president Nicolas Sarkozy to avoid facing charges of illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election bid, with a trial of the ex-head of state now appearing inevitable. Prosecutors claim Sarkozy spent nearly 43 million euros ($51 million) on his lavish re-election bid — almost double the […]
US President Donald Trump has proposed overhauling the country’s immigration system to favor young, educated, English-speaking applicants instead of people with family ties to Americans. Trump’s plan, which he announced on Thursday at the White House, has little to no chance of being approved in Congress and was strongly criticized by Democrats in Congress and […]
Southern Cameroonians, I shall never stop reminding us, Southern Cameroonians what would happen should we surrender. Mind you that our boys called Amba boys have killed many French Cameroonians. Those killed are fathers, husbands, wives, mothers, uncles, etc to French Cameroon citizens. If we surrender, French Cameroon will say “Never Again”. How will never again […]
US President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to avoid a military confrontation with Iran, the New York Times and Reuters have reported. The Times reported Friday that Trump, during a Wednesday morning meeting in the Situation Room, sent a message to his hawkish aides that he does not want the US pressure campaign against Iran to explode […]
Two French Cameroun soldiers have been killed in Bamenda, the chief city in the Northern Zone of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia by Southern Cameroons Restoration Forces. The soldiers were killed around Alachu in Mankon on Wednesday May 15 by Ambazonian Self-Defense Forces protecting the Mezam County. Francophone soldiers deployed to the area responded by […]
English-speaking Cameroonians, who say they are fed up with an ongoing separatist war, are taking matters into their own hands by arresting and handing over suspected separatist fighters to the military. Some residents also have created militias in their towns and villages as they voice frustration over the war that has killed close to 2,000 […]
When armed men stormed into the remote village in south-west Cameroon, they took Agah Rachel’s husband, levelled a gun on him and pulled the trigger as she looked on. As he fell to the ground, the 27-year-old widow knew she had to act fast. She took off with her sons into the surrounding bush with […]
The American undersecretary of State, Tibor Nagy, who has brought the plight of the suffering Southern Cameroonian to the fore, has just addressed a foreign affairs forum in Washington DC where he urged the international community to take urgent action against the Yaounde government which has continued to inflict pain on the people of Southern […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that she and French President Emmanuel Macron “wrestle” on policy and have different outlooks, but tend to cooperate and find compromises in the end. “Of course, we wrestle with each other,” Merkel said about relations between the core EU leaders who have disagreed recently on issues from how the bloc should […]
Cameroon has got a new project launched recently dubbed ‘Solar Maternity’. The project has been unveiled in Bikok, a central region in Cameroon. France’s former Environment Minister, Ségolène Royal desires to equip 13 Cameroonian maternity hospitals with solar power generation systems. The initiative has been taken by the 65-year old French politician to ensure those […]
