Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said that Madrid would not rule out suspending Catalonia’s autonomous status if its leaders declare independence. “I don’t rule out absolutely anything that is within the law … Ideally, it shouldn’t be necessary to implement extreme solutions but for that not to happen things would have to be changed,” […]
A huge explosion has rocked a gas station in Ghana’s capital of Accra, claiming the lives of an unknown number of people, and triggering the evacuation of a large number of local residents, police and government officials say. Police said the incident took place after a tanker caught fire in the Atomic Junction Square in Legon, […]
The struggle for freedom and independence of the Southern Cameroons is in the soul of every Southern Cameroonian born and unborn. It is a struggle which has been going on for the last fifty-six years. The genocide of armless Southern Cameroonians from all hooks and corners of the Southern Cameroons on October 1, 2017 has eternalized this […]
British police say it has arrested a man after his car mounted the pavement in front of a museum in central London, injuring several people. Witnesses said a car “drove into people” near the city’s Natural History Museum in the South Kensington area on Saturday afternoon. Police confirmed a number of people are injured, but […]
Seven people died Thursday as high winds knocked over trees and caused widespread travel chaos in northern Germany. Authorities in Hamburg warned residents to stay inside after a tree fell on a car and killed a woman. A truck driver was also killed near Rostock when a tree hit his vehicle. In Berlin, where winds […]
“On October 1, 2017, it was Akpana and his family relations who took soldiers from house to house of their imaginary “enemies” to cause havoc. He called in aid one Chief Ndumbe of Miyerim. It was at Miyerim that soldiers shot and killed the first two persons. Others were shot in the legs with no-one […]
The ambush that took the lives of three American Special Forces soldiers and wounded two others in Niger on Wednesday highlights the little-noticed but growing American involvement in contested pockets of Africa, where jihadist groups have taken root and Washington is rushing to backstop allies. It is unclear what group carried out Wednesday’s deadly attack, […]
Spain’s Constitutional Court has ordered the suspension of a special session in Catalonia’s parliament, during which top officials of the region are expected to declare independence. The court released a statement on Thursday and confirmed that its judges had temporarily suspended next week’s parliamentary session in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia. A spokeswoman of the […]
Catalan leaders will likely move on Monday to declare independence from Spain, more than a week after the already autonomous Spanish region held a banned referendum on secession. In a televised address from Generalitat Palace in Catalonia’s capital, Barcelona, on Wednesday night, Catalan Regional President Carles Puigdemont indicated that the region could declare independence early […]
October 5, 2017. Dear Fellow Anglophones: I know you are still shocked by the scale of what happened on October 1, 2017, in our beloved country. It is unfortunate, indeed revolting, that such disproportionate force had been used on armless and peaceful demonstrators. We wish other methods could have been used to resolve the issues […]
