After a 16-year career at the highest level of European soccer, Alexandre Song has decided to hang up his boots. The former midfielder played for Arta Solar 7 (Djibouti) for the last three seasons.”It’s with great sadness that the time has come for me to hang up my boots. My journey that began in Yaoundé […]
Tributes are pouring in for popular Nigerian rapper Oladips, following his death at the age of 28. “We are still in shock as we speak,” his management said in an Instagram post. The cause of death is unclear but the post read he “kept his battles within himself” for two years. Oladips was a talented […]
Biya’s forty-one year rule has been very chaotic. It has been a mixture of ineptitude and wilful incompetence and chaos. Yaoundé has collapsed and the Editor-in-Chief of the Cameroon Intelligence Report is having a terrible feeling about the political disaster. Citing two senior intelligence sources familiar with the current situation in Yaoundé, Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai […]
Liberians head to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to hand former footballer George Weah a second term as president despite a controversial record, or to elect political veteran Joseph Boakai despite his age. The run-off is expected to be close between the rivals, who also faced off in 2017 when Weah won in the […]
“There’s a lot of jealousy in football,” said Sheikh Issa, holding up a piece of bark and a bottle of a yellowish potion. Which is why many professional players beat a path to the African faith healer in the Paris suburbs looking for ways to ward off the “evil eye” and other afflictions. Since World […]
The Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Government has hailed the steadfastness of Southern Cameroon fighters in the face of continued French Cameroun military operations in Ground Zero, stressing that Yaoundé will eventually have no option but to retreat in humiliation. Dabney Yerima made the remarks in a Saturday audio broadcast from Holland. The exiled […]
Defense Minister Joseph Beti Assomo on Monday warned that measures needed to be taken to tackle security challenges that will likely characterize end-of-year festivities. “Our compatriots will have to live this end of year period in a security context marked by pockets of security concerns, particularly in the Far North, Northwest and Southwest regions,” Assomo […]
At least six separatist fighters and four soldiers were killed in clashes over the weekend in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region of Northwest, local and security sources said Monday. On Sunday, separatist fighters ambushed soldiers on patrol in Belo locality of the region, killing three of them after a shootout, a military official in the region, […]
Mali’s army drove closer on Saturday to the town of Kidal clashing with Tuareg separatist and rebel groups in what could signal the start of fighting for the strategically important northern crossroads. Since seizing power in a coup in 2020 the African country’s military rulers have made a priority of re-establishing sovereignty over all regions […]
Esther Omam, a Cameroonian human rights defender is among three winners who have been selected as the 2023 Global Pluralism Award recipients. The winners receive Sh5.5 million each to continue their work towards pluralism. Build Up, a Kenyan organization that works with peacebuilding institutions and a network of peace innovators to tackle polarization and make […]
