The Yaounde regime has announced a postponement of the 2017-2018 academic year in Southern Cameroons for all higher education establishments. The anti Anglophone Minister for Higher Education, Jacques Fame Ndongo said in a statement that the all activities to be hosted during such ceremonies have been carried forward to to a later date. While schools […]
The Editor-in-Chief of the Cameroon Concord News Group has reacted to recent pronouncements made by the Chairman of the outlawed Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium. In this conversation with CCN’s Chi Prudence Asong, Soter Agbaw-Ebai says Balla has still not understood the significance of his abduction, his eight months detention as well as that of […]
The World Health Organization said Tuesday it has completed a massive cholera vaccination campaign in restive northeastern Nigeria, where the disease has already killed 54 people. The week-long campaign allowed 844,000 people to receive one dose of the vaccine, which offers protection against the deadly disease for six months, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told reporters […]
Clashes that erupted in Ethiopia earlier this month between two of the country’s largest ethnic groups have killed hundreds of people and displaced thousands more, the government said. The killing of two local administrators coupled with long-running land disputes led to an outbreak of fighting between the Oromo and Somali peoples in the south and […]
Cameroon, the central African country that shares its western border with Nigeria, is reeling after major protests in its English-speaking regions on Sep. 22 ended with several protesters shot dead by security forces. The protests took place as president Paul Biya addressed to the 72nd UN General Assembly, some 6,000 miles away in New York. Yet, the president, […]
Thousands of people uprooted from their homes by the Boko Haram insurgency took to the streets in the sprawling Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Sunday to protest at food shortages and poor conditions in their camp. More than 2.6 million people have been displaced by the deadly violence in northeastern Nigeria that erupted eight years […]
The date October 1, 2017 is now of serious concern to the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime. The reason being that the Southern Cameroons Governing Council and the people of Southern Cameroons have chosen that day to proclaim the independence of the territory. Francophone political elites are now worried and as a precautionary measure including […]
The Anglophone problem that started with just simple socio-professional demands by lawyers and teachers in October 2016 has today developed into a full blown crisis due to the politicization of the issues and the radicalization of the English-speaking minority by the government via its response. This response has been marked by denial, disregard, intimidation and […]
Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region is holding an independence referendum in the face of strong objections from the central government in Baghdad and in defiance of urgent calls from the international community to scrap the vote. A total of 12,072 polling stations have opened at 8:00 local time (0500 GMT) Monday where more than 5.3 million are […]
The Francophone Minister of Finance has threatened to shut down the Regional Headquarters of a Southern Cameroons Bank. National Financial Credit Bank premises in the Bamenda County closed from Monday to Wednesday last week following orders from the Southern Cameroons Governing Council. However, the regional bureau of the National Financial Credit Bank of Bamenda received […]
