A US military veteran has been arrested before carrying out multiple “mass casualty” terror attacks in Los Angeles, California. Mark Steven Domingo, 26, had been allegedly planning the terror operations in order to seek “retribution” for “attacks on Muslims around the globe” and specifically for last month’s Christchurch shooting in New Zealand which left 50 Muslims dead, […]
Ukraine’s president-elect offers to provide citizenship to Russian nationals “suffering” from what he calls the “authoritarian” regime ruling the country in response to Moscow’s decision to offer Ukrainians in eastern conflict zones quick citizenship. Volodymyr Zelensky’s offer came after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree making it easier for the residents of separatist-controlled eastern […]
Guinea’s national under-17 male football team on Sunday lost 3-5 after penalty kicks to their Cameroonian counterparts in a pulsating final match at the Africa Under-17 Nations Cup competition. In the final match played at the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania both sides drew goalless after 90 minutes of intense action. […]
Assailants from the jihadist group Boko Haram killed at least four people, one soldier and three civilians, and seriously injured four others during an attack on Kofia, a Cameroonian island on Lake Chad. In the attack that occurred in the night from Saturday to Sunday the assailants also destroyed part of a military post and […]
A military response will not solve the ongoing Anglophone crisis in Cameroon, says a spokesman for the local Catholic Church. About 80 percent of Cameroon is French-speaking. However, the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon are majority English-speaking. In October 2016, strikes by lawyers and teachers over perceived attempts by the Francophone administration to assimilate […]
The chairman of Cameroon’s main opposition party Ni John Fru Ndi has been released after being kidnapped earlier Saturday in the Northwest Region, one of two English-speaking provinces in the grip of an armed conflict for over a year, his party said. The SDF leader was abducted while leading a funeral procession, his party said […]
Sudan must “immediately” join the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has charged Omar al-Bashir, the ousted president, with war crimes. Head of the opposition National Umma Party Sadiq al-Mahdi said on Saturday that Sudan should “immediately” join the Hague-based court. “This should be done in coordination with the Transitional Military Council,” the former prime minister said. Bashir […]
Former United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator, Jan Egeland has lamented over the carnage ongoing in Former British Southern Cameroons as he visited villages and towns transformed into battle grounds “This senseless conflict has displaced more than half a million people, these are women and children and many of them are out in the open,” Egeland […]
Since 2014, Boko Haram’s insurgency has wreaked havoc in the Far-North region of Cameroon, displacing 244,347 people as of January 2019. As Cameroon grapples with this challenge, a relatively new and poorly understood crisis is simultaneously unfolding in the country’s North-West and South-West regions which, as of March 2019, has led to the displacement of […]
The Norwegian Refugee Council humanitarian organization expressed worries on Thursday about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon caused by violent conflict between the government and non-state armed groups and called upon international community to pay attention to the situation. “We need to scale up the humanitarian response, and there is a need for independent reporting from the international media. But […]
