Algeria’s president has decided to relieve many ministers of their duties in the cabinet while appointing a caretaker government led by Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui. Algeria’s state television reported on Sunday that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had carried out a new cabinet reshuffle while announcing that Bedoui, who only recently replaced former premier Ahmed Ouyahia, would […]
Two US Marine pilots have died in a helicopter crash near Yuma, Arizona, during a training mission, the Pentagon says. The Marines were flying an AH-1Z Viper helicopter as part of a weapons and tactics instructor course when the incident happened late on Saturday. According to Capt. Gabriel Adibe, a Marine Corps spokesman, the helicopter […]
On Thursday, March 28, Human Rights Watch reported that at least 170 civilians have been killed since October in the escalating violence in Cameroon. The violence has occurred primarily along linguistic lines between Cameroon’s Anglophone and Francophone populations. The ethno-linguistic tension stems from perceived discrimination against the minority Anglophone Cameroonians: The government operates primarily in […]
Joseph Banadzem Lukong, a prominent Southern Cameroons Member of Parliament and senior political figure of the Social Democratic Front-the so-called main opposition party is no more! The MP reportedly died on Saturday morning at the Yaoundé General Hospital. Cameroon Concord News gathered from SDF sources that the MP’s health had deteriorated ever since the beginning […]
Algeria’s army chief renewed a call for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be declared unfit for office and told opponents not to seek to undermine the military, after weeks of protests demanding an end to the ailing leader’s 20-year rule. Bouteflika, 82, who has rarely been seen in public in Algeria recent years, has faced mass demonstrations for […]
Pope Francis will hold mass Sunday for nearly 10,000 members of Morocco’s Catholic minority, on the second day of a visit during which he has already met migrants and trainee imams. The Argentine pontiff will begin the day at a social centre near Rabat, before meeting religious leaders at the cathedral in the Moroccan capital. […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May is reportedly trying to find a way to put her European Union withdrawal deal to a fresh vote of the parliament after failing to gain the approval of the chamber on three occasions. The BBC said on Saturday that May and her cabinet were looking for ways to bring her […]
Football (soccer) clubs in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon are relocating to safer areas after a coach and players from a university club were abducted by suspected separatists. The military says it has arrested at least 10 suspected kidnappers. But players say the abductions show the government is unable to protect its citizens. Bang Bullet […]
Fighting between Cameroon government forces and English-speaking separatists sends thousands of refugees over the border to camps in Nigeria and there’s no end in sight. More people have been forced into refugee camps in Nigeria due to fighting between separatists and government troops in southern Cameroon. More than 30,000 have been officially registered but aid […]
The forward has endured a stop-start career to date, but could he finally be primed to realise his potential? When Clinton N’Jie put Cameroon 1-0 up in their 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014, barely 44 minutes into his Indomitable Lions career, there was a ripple of excitement about the […]
