North Korea claims to have built a hydrogen bomb which is capable of being loaded on a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Early on Sunday, the official Korean Central News Agency KCNA reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had inspected one of the domestically-built hydrogen bombs at the country’s Nuclear Weapons Institute. It was a […]
Mola Njoh Litumbe was declared an Ambassador of Conscience by senior leaders of Morisc, SCNC and SCACUF at an award ceremony inspired by the Southern Cameroons revolution in the USA. The elderly Southern Cameroons statesman has successfully led West Cameroonians into democracy and has continued to campaign on issues such as the marginalisation of Southern […]
Russian ambassador Migayas Shirinskiy has become the eighth Kremlin diplomat to die since the election of Donald Trump in November 2016, sparking conspiracy theories. Shirinsky, ambassador to Sudan, was swimming in the pool of his residence in Khartoum last Wednesday when he seemed to suffer a heart attack. While there is no evidence to suggest […]
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says it is not going to inspect Iran’s military sites despite US pressures to do so. “We’re not going to visit a military site like Parchin just to send a political signal,” Reuters cited an unnamed IAEA official as saying, referring to a military complex located 30 kilometers from the […]
Austria’s ruling Social Democratic Party (SPO) is suing Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, the chairman of its junior coalition partner, after he accused Chancellor Christian Kern’s party of secretly accepting a 100,000 euro ($119,120) donation. The lawsuit marks a new low in the already strained relationship between the coalition partners, who have engaged in public squabbles […]
At least one person has been killed after heavy rains caused rivers to burst their banks in southeast Nigeria, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, an NGO said Friday. “We were able to speak to a woman and one of her children was killed in the night, two are in the […]
Kenya’s Supreme Court on Friday declared President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election win invalid due to irregularities committed by the election board and ordered a new vote in 60 days. The decision to cancel the result, the first of its kind in Kenya’s history, sets up a new race for the presidency between Kenyatta and veteran opposition […]
Michel Barnier, the European Union’s chief negotiator for Britain’s exit from the EU commonly referred to as Brexit, has scolded his British counterpart, describing London’s exit demands as “simply impossible.” “The UK wants to take back control, it wants to set its own standards and regulations, but it also wants to have these standards recognized automatically […]
In a bid to defuse tension in the country and ensure that schools effectively resume on Monday, September 4, 2017, in the country’s Anglophone region, Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya, on Wednesday, August 30, 2017, ordered that legal proceedings against those arrested within the context of the Anglophone crisis be discontinued, thereby paving the way for […]
Wednesday’s announcement of the release of Anglophone leaders by the Cameroon government has been hailed by many as a major step in the right direction and many observers think that such a measure by the country’s head of state could pave the way for genuine and sincere dialogue about the country’s political future. Cameroon is […]
