A US federal judge has ruled that the Affordable Care Act, a health care law commonly known as Obamacare, was unconstitutional based on its mandate requiring that people buy health insurance. US District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, made the ruling Friday following a lawsuit filed by 20 states opposed to the federal […]
The release of nearly 300 people arrested in connection with Cameroon’s anglophone crisis has been delayed by red tape, state radio said Friday, a day after they were pardoned by President Paul Biya. Courts in six prisons across the West African country ordered the separatists be freed on Friday, but administrative difficulties have slowed the […]
The UN envoy for Central Africa on Thursday said he remained concerned with the situation in the northwest and southwest regions of Cameroon and reaffirmed the UN’s commitment to the territorial integrity and unity of the country. In recent months, fighting between the separatists and Cameroon’s forces has sent hundreds of thousands of people fleeing, […]
The United States demanded an immediate end to violence in Cameroon on Thursday and a speedy start to talks between the government and Anglophone separatists without preconditions. U.S. deputy ambassador Jonathan Cohen told the Security Council that security and humanitarian conditions in Cameroon’s English-speaking North West and South West regions “have significantly deteriorated.” October was […]
President Paul Biya on Thursday called a halt to the prosecution of 289 separatists from the West African country’s western English-speaking regions, his office said. Biya “has decided on… the halt of cases pending in military courts against a certain number of people arrested for offences committed during the crisis in the (anglophone) Northwest and […]
Cameroon has been withdrawn as hosts of the 2019 African Cup of Nations due to delays with security and preparation concerns. The new hosts are expected to be announced on January 9 with South Africa leading the list of countries to take over. (We really shouldn’t be doing this again – remember 2010?) Despite many […]
After two years of violent confrontations between government forces and Southern Cameroonian separatists, which have resulted in the death of more than 4,000 Cameroonians, the Yaoundé government has begun taking baby and doubtful steps towards peace. Last month, the Yaoundé government had announced in a press release that it had set up Demobilization, Disarmament and […]
The Cameroonian President-Dictator has signed another decree ordering the “discontinuation” of proceedings before the Yaoundé Military Tribunal against hundreds of Southern Cameroons activists. Biya has kept to his outdated pattern of governance and his acolytes, his critics, and the media alike have portrayed them as dramatic u-turn on the war in Southern Cameroons. The Biya […]
Increasingly determined and bold separatists seeking the international recognition of the self-proclaimed “Federal Republic of Ambazonia” (Southern Cameroons) have created a crypto-currency which they claim is the first to be fully nation-backed. Known as AmbaCoin, 20,082 of the Ambazonian crypto bond had already been bought, out of 100,000,000 on pre-sale as of Nov. 10. One […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May has managed to survive a leadership challenge by gaining a confidence vote from her party. May’s leadership of the Tory party was consolidated by a 200-117 vote after secret ballots were cast on Wednesday. “The result of the ballot this evening is that the parliamentary party does have confidence,” announced […]
