Pope Francis on Monday assailed the “insatiable greed” of today’s consumerism, calling on people in his Christmas homily to make “sharing and giving” more a part of their lives. “Mankind became greedy and voracious,” the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics said in an address to thousands of followers in Saint Peter’s Basilica in […]
A Mexican governor and her senator husband have been killed in a helicopter crash near the city of Puebla in central Mexico, the government said, just days after she had taken office following a bitterly contested election. Martha Erika Alonso, a senior opposition figure and governor of the state of Puebla, died with Rafael Moreno, […]
Gunmen at the weekend killed 17 people in the latest attack on villages in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state, witnesses and police say. The assault came just days after 25 people were killed in similar raids on two villages in the region. Gunmen on motorcycles stormed Magami village in the Maradun district area of the state […]
A snowy Moscow park turned red on Sunday (December 23) as 2,000 volunteers dressed as Santas came together for a charity run to raise money for Russian hospices. (Source: Reuters)
New records by the International Organization for Migration find more than 6,600 Africans have died over the past five years, most while crossing the Sahara desert toward Europe. However, the study notes these numbers are “just the tip of the iceberg.” This year alone, hundreds of eye-witness accounts have confirmed nearly 1,400 migrant deaths on […]
Acting President Ikome Sako of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia says the French Cameroun regime has failed to achieve any goals from its more than 2 years military campaign on conflict-ridden Southern Cameroons. “We have effectively denied our adversaries the military victory they promised their western Masters! We have convinced all that Biya cannot retain […]
French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting Chad this weekend, where he will meet his counterpart Idriss Deby to discuss the crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), amid widespread concerns about increasing Russian influence in the country. Moscow has been supplying arms to the CAR since December 2017. Around 175 Russians, including five soldiers employed […]
Cameroon said on Friday that the commander of the Ambazonia Defense Force (ADF), popularly known as General Ivo, and three other armed separatists were killed early Friday in a clash in Teke, a remote locality in Southwest, one of the two English-speaking regions of the country. “Chief terrorist called General Ivo was killed during an […]
“A lie is told by someone who is either ignorant or malicious. But the strength there-of, depends on the extent that the lie is believed. The problem is when the lie is believed or spread by those who were supposed to debunk it. It becomes the “truth out there” especially when the truth is quiet. […]
The Confederation of African Football (Caf) says Cameroon has agreed to host the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations after being stripped of the 2019 finals. “Cameroon has officially accepted to host the Afcon 2021 through an official letter addressed to Caf,” a statement said. “[It is] signed by the Cameroonian Head of State, His Excellency […]
