The Inter-ministerial adhoc committee set up to review and propose solutions to the problems plaguing the Anglophone system of education will begin work on Tuesday 27th December 2016 in Bamenda, the North West Regional capital. According to a government communiqué released on Wednesday 21st December 2016 by Prime Minister Philemon Yang, the Biya Francophone Beti […]
Professor Jean Emmanuel Pondi, has recently been disparaging the Southern Cameroons quest for Independence with analogies that leave much to be desired. Using counterfactual arguments, Professor Pondi misrepresents the aspirations of Southern Cameroonians, and fails to acknowledge the incontrovertible fact that all English speaking countries in Africa are more democratic and more prosperous than those […]
Lawyers in the South West region whose Wigs and gowns were seized by security forces last November during a peaceful protest in Buea have vowed to take court action against the Divisional Officer of Buea, KUOAM Wokam Paul and the police who brutalized the lawyers, seized their wigs and arrested some. Responding to a letter […]
The Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde convicted recently by a French court for negligence is in Cameroon for the December 23rd emergency meeting of heads of state of the CEMAC countries. President Biya received Mrs Lagarde for nearly one hour before the start of the meeting and explained in his opening remarks that […]
A video showing a white police officer in Fort Worth, Texas, violently arresting a black woman along with the woman’s daughters has sparked anger amid ongoing police violence against minorities. The confrontation erupted on Wednesday after Jacqueline Craig, 46, called police to report that a white neighbor had choked her seven-year-old son for throwing paper […]
The Presidents of Central African Republic, Chad, Congo and Equatorial Guinea are in Yaoundé where they will take part along with their counterpart Paul Biya this Friday at the extraordinary summit of Heads of State of Central Africa. Central Africa’s Faustin-Archange Touadéra opened the ball of arrivals at midday yesterday. It was followed by the […]
Some few days to the start of dialogue between the Francophone negotiators headed by Paul Goghomu, Director of cabinet at the Prime Minister’s Office and representatives of Anglophone Teachers Trade Unions in Bamenda on December 27,2016 , tongues are wagging on the possible bribing of teachers to accept governments offers. But teachers trade union leaders […]
The Steering Committee of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium, CACSC, is demanding a return to federalism through a referendum or holding of a constitutional Conference. The body which is charged with proposing policy alternatives to improve on lives of Anglophones says a return to two state federations is the only solution to the co-existence […]
Blood and intrigues have earned President Paul Biya Cameroon Concord News Man of the Year nomination. This may seem unprecedented but justifiable. Blood and intrigues are the defining attributes of Paul Biya’s presidency. Indeed, blood and intrigues are at its highest as we write. They, therefore merit special attention in our choice of our man of […]
An investigation has been launched into why Turkish police did not capture the Russian ambassador to Turkey’s assassin alive. The Russian ambassador, Andrei Karlov, was killed during the opening of a photo exhibition at a gallery in the Turkish capital Ankara on Monday. The assassin, off-duty policeman Mevlut Mert Altintas was shot dead at the […]
