The Gabonese military officer who led a failed coup in Gabon has been captured and two of his commandos killed following an attack on a public radio station, the presidency says. The two rebels were killed and their leader was arrested after security forces invaded the radio station in the Gabonese capital Libreville on Monday. […]
British and European officials are reportedly discussing a possible extension of the March 29 deadline for Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU), amid growing fears that a Brexit agreement clinched by Prime Minister Theresa May will be voted down in the UK parliament. Despite the EU’s repeated warnings that a renegotiation of the deal […]
Cameroon army said on Sunday it had killed two armed separatist commanders in Southwest, one of the war-torn English-speaking regions of the country. “The ‘general Obi’, whose group terrorized the populations of the localities of Mamfe, Okoyong, Bachuo Ntai, Bachuo Akaegbe, and Nchemba was neutralized early morning of January 6, 2019,” the army said in […]
There is still confusion in the Gabonese capital, Libreville, after some junior military officials announced very early on Monday that they had overthrown President Ali Bongo who is currently receiving treatment in the Moroccan capital, Rabat. A source close to the Gabonese military has just revealed that power supply has been cut off in strategic […]
Government assures situation under control, four soldiers picked The Gabonese government spokesperson confirmed to Reuters and French channel, RFI, that the attempted coup had been brought under control. “The government is in place, the institutions are in place,” Guy-Bertrand Mapangou told France24. Gabon coup soldiers arrested, internet off but Libreville calm Apparently, there were only five […]
Former Manchester United and Chelsea manager José Mourinho is reported to have rejected an opportunity to return to Benfica to become the club’s new manager. Britain’s Sky News reports that Mourinho said he feels it is too early to return to the Portuguese football at this stage of his career. According to the report, Mourinho […]
Soldiers in Gabon took control of the national radio station in the early hours of Monday and read a short statement announcing the establishment of a “National Restoration Council” in the absence of the country’s ailing president, Ali Bongo. A New Year’s address by Bongo “reinforced doubts about the president’s ability to continue to carry […]
Look at Ahidjo’s body language on Jan 1, 1960; the day French Cameroun was granted independence and you can see the master-servant relationship between Francophones and France. From Jan. 1 1960 to February 11, 1961, Southern Cameroons was then a self-governing British UN-mandated territory with all the trappings of a nation-state, including its own internationally […]
Nigeria’s foremost human rights lawyer Femi Falana SAN has dragged the government of Cameroon to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia over the impending trial of 47 asylum seekers and naturalised Nigerians. The lawyer wants the commission’s urgent intervention to end “the ongoing human rights violations of the applicants […]
