The former manager of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, Winfried Schäfer, has been appointed as the new head coach of Iranian professional football club Esteghlal Tehran, which plays in the highest level of the Iranian football league system – the Persian Gulf Pro League. During a technical commission session on Monday evening, with Ali Jabbari, Akbar Karegar Jam, […]
Michaëlle Jean, the Secretary General of the International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF), expressed on Monday her “deep concern about the violence that has rocked Southern Cameroons. Her reactions came after that of French President Emmanuel Macron. “The current tensions in these areas of Cameroon are very worrying. Violence must never be an option to […]
French Cameroun’s military is heavily deployed in the new state of Southern Cameroons and few people are on the streets after dozens were killed over the weekend in protests in support of independence for Southern Cameroons territory. Tens of thousands of Southern Cameroonians hoisted flags Sunday to show they want independence from the Cameroon’s French-speaking […]
International rights group, Amnesty International, says it has independently confirmed that 17 people were killed during clashes between Cameroonian security forces and pro-independence protesters. The clashes which took place in the country’s restive Anglophone regions on October 1 were said to have claimed eight lives on Monday morning. Another 50 protesters were wounded with over […]
The collapse of the UK’s Monarch Airline has left some 110,000 Britons stranded abroad, kicking off the biggest peacetime repatriation program to take them back home. Britain’s longest-surviving airline brand ceased all trading activities early Monday and was placed into administration after failing to renew a crucial license. The airline’s collapse meant that all of […]
The Anglophone problem which started like a joke has finally spiraled out of control following the slaughtering of some twenty armless Anglophone protesters in various cities across Southern Cameroons. The protesters had been out to celebrate their independence on October 1, 2017, but were interrupted by security forces who had received orders to shoot and […]
At least seven people were killed in Cameroon’s restive anglophone belt at the weekend as a separatist group made a symbolic declaration of independence. The separatists chose October 1, the anniversary of the official reunification of the anglophone and francophone parts of Cameroon, to declare independence for “Ambazonia”, the name of the state they want […]
Catalonia’s regional government has announced that 90 percent of those who participated in an independence referendum banned by Spain’s central government choose to be separated from the country. While addressing a press briefing early on Monday, regional government spokesman Jordi Turull announced that 2.02 million Catalans had voted “yes” to the question: “Do you want […]
When Cameroon’s President for the past 30-plus years Paul Biya came to meet Antonio Guterres on September 22, before he went back to the Hotel Inter-Continental in Geneva, he was accompanied by his state media and… Inner City Press. Now Biya, still in Geneva, has directed his forced to use water cannons in Buea, as […]
The Anglophone crisis that started in October 2016 reached its apex on Sunday, October 1, 2017 following the declaration of independence in various cities across Southern Cameroons despite the heavy deployment of government troops to intimidate Southern Cameroonians who have clearly displayed their determination to quit a badly and hastily stitched union with East Cameroon. […]
