Rwanda’s government has murdered, attacked and disappeared critics beyond its borders in a campaign of “extraterritorial repression” that must be challenged by the international community, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday. The tiny East African nation has been de facto led by Paul Kagame since the genocide in 1994, and the veteran president is seeking […]
The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for her research helping understand the role of women in the labour market. The Harvard professor, who is the third woman to be awarded the prestigious economics prize, was given the nod “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market […]
Former Secretary General at the presidency of the republic Professor Titus Edzoa expressed his willingness to lead a transition government in the event President Biya agrees to step down. Edzoa, however, maintained he will not support another mandate for President Biya in the next presidential race. Professor Titus Edzoa told Equinox TV that any change […]
A senior Southern Cameroons scholar has said that the United Republic of Cameroon project has failed. “Day-by-day it is becoming evident that British Southern Cameroons is irreversibly transitioning into Africa’s newest state. The French backed Francophone domination equation does not work in Southern Cameroons anymore, and the old ENAM order that used to serve the […]
In the last few hours, two senior members of the Israeli military have compared Saturday’s attacks from Gaza to the 9/11 attacks on the US. “This is our 9/11,” spokesman Major Nir Dinar said. “They got us.” Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus also compared the Hamas attacks to major attacks in America. “This could be a […]
Cameroon Concord News Group chief correspondent Nelly Epupa has said that the Biya Francophone regime in French Cameroun has detained more than 4000 Southern Cameroonians since the outbreak of the conflict in 2006. Nelly Epupa who headed undercover operations for the Cameroon Intelligence Report said during our October editorial meeting on Thursday that the Francophone […]
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was on Friday charged as part of an investigation into possible witness tampering, adding to his long list of legal woes, including over illegal campaign financing. Following 30 hours of questioning over nearly four days, investigating magistrates decided they had grounds to charge Sarkozy with benefitting from witness tampering and […]
A drone attack on a Syrian military academy in the country’s western city of Homs has killed scores of people and left many others wounded. “Eighty people, including six children and six women, were martyred and 240 people were injured as a result of this terrorist act,” Syrian Health Minister Hassan al-Ghabash said on Thursday. […]
A Catholic priest and three Catholic teachers in Cameroon’s troubled southwest region are recovering from bullet wounds after they were shot in what church authorities say was a targeted attack on a Catholic primary school Sept. 26. The attack comes amid the country’s struggle with seven years of separatist violence, and the Catholic Church still […]
The public execution by Cameroonian separatists of two civilians has cast a spotlight back on a simmering six-year conflict that has killed thousands in the English-speaking west of the Central African country. Here is a breakdown of what caused the war and why it has so far proved impossible to stop. THE HISTORY OF CONFLICT […]
