Sudanese protest organisers presented demands including the creation of a civilian government in talks with the country’s new military rulers late Saturday, the group spearheading demonstrations said. Thousands remained encamped outside the army headquarters in the capital overnight to keep up the pressure on a military council that took power after ousting veteran leader Omar […]
The Black Stars will be up for revenge against the Indomitable Lions, who ended their hopes of winning the 2017 tournament in the semi-finals. Guinea-Bissau and Benin are the other teams, making it an all West African group. Kwesi Appiah’s men will be based in Ismailia and will begin their tournament against Benin on Monday, […]
Six students — five boys and one girl — of a government secondary school have been kidnapped in Fongo Tongo, a locality in western Cameroon, a local government official said Friday. “The children were kidnapped as they were helping their parents in farming. We have no idea where they are since their abduction. The kidnappers […]
After a 30-year rule, mostly characterised by government repression, violation of human rights, restrictions of religious freedom and disregard for basic obligations to citizens, the rug was pulled from under Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir’s feet. In a military take-over, Al-Bashir, 75, was ousted from power and the curtains were drawn on an inglorious spell on […]
Anti-government protests are expected across Cameroon today, where protestors will call for the release of 150 jailed opposition supporters, including leader Maurice Kanto. Mr Kanto of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement claims to have defeated President Paul Biya in elections last October. Cameroon’s government has banned protests until April 13, citing threats from Boko Haram along the northern […]
Hundreds of Southern Cameroons demonstrators brought traffic to a standstill in Berlin today after turning out in their droves to call for an end to cooperation between Abuja and Yaounde and the immediate implementation of the Nigerian High Court decision that ordered the return of President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides back to […]
Former pope Benedict XVI on Thursday blamed the Catholic clerical sex abuse scandals on the 1960s sexual revolution and a collapse in faith in the West, immediately drawing criticism from some theologians. The ex-pontiff, who retired in 2013 and chose to be known thereafter as “pope emeritus”, said responsibility for the crises rocking the Roman Catholic Church […]
At least two people have died of cholera in Cameroon’s North region, barely four months after the government declared the country free of the disease, an official of the Ministry of Public Health said Wednesday. According to Dr Arabo Saidou, the region’s representative of the ministry, the first cases of the epidemic were identified on […]
The fall of Sudan’s strongman Omar al-Bashir Thursday morning elicited reactions from the global community with Mali’s Prime Minister Moussa Mara saying his “departure” shares the same principle with that of Algeria’s 82-year-old Abdelaziz Bouteflika who resigned as president following weeks of protest. Prime Minister Mara, in a statement issued in response to an enquiry […]
The 86-year-old Paul Biya, the longest serving non-royal head of state in the world, has held office in Cameroon since Gerald Ford was president. He recently won a seventh term in office that Foreign Policy (10/22/18) described as a “farce.” Cameroon has been in the news of late, due to the government’s human rights abuses […]
