Former UN chief Kofi Annan is on a fact-finding mission in Myanmar to probe a bloody army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in the country. Annan and his team on Friday arrived in the volatile northwestern Rakhine State, where an army crackdown has killed at least 86 ethnic Rohingya Muslims, according to government figures. Independent groups […]
French President Francoise Hollande has announced that he will not stand for re-election in the upcoming presidential poll amid low popularity ratings and a fairly high unemployment rate in the Western European country. “Today I am aware of the risks that going down a route that would not gather sufficient support would entail, so I […]
For the past two weeks, the North West and South West regions of Cameroon have been the theater of violent confrontations between protesters seeking to draw attention to the sorry plight of the country’s Anglophone minority and the forces of law (lessness) and (dis) order who still think that intimidation and violence can stop the […]
Talks between the Anglophone Teachers Trade Unions and the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo government have broken off. A statement from the Prime Minister says President Biya has decided on two measures aimed at improving the working conditions in public and private schools. The Biya decision read on state radio and television made a mockery of […]
Members of parliament have adopted the 4,373.8 billion FCFA as 2017 state budget. The budget is up from 4,274.7 billion FCFA in 2016. The Minister of the Economy and Finance, Alamine Ousmane Mey defended the budget before the Finance and Budget Committee of the National Assembly. The bill according to the Finance Minister was designed […]
General Charles de Kersabiec, Commander of the French Forces in Gabon, popularly known as the EFG, has reiterated his country’s commitment to “expand security cooperation” with Cameroon. He made this declaration after an audience at the Unity Palace with President Paul BIYA on Thursday 01 December 2016. He said Cameroon and France have an excellent […]
A Nigerian high court has refused to release on bail a leading separatist activist, whose arrest last year sparked a wave of violent protests across the country. The “alleged offenses for which the defendants are standing trial are serious,” federal high court judge Binta Nyako said on Thursday in a ruling refusing an application by […]
The so-called judiciary services have opened a formal process against innocent university students who staged a peaceful demonstration within the University of Buea campus recently. Those arrested are now being put on trial for their alleged role during the strike action. The Cameroon government high court judges who are all seeking for promotion will sentence […]
A UN report has warned of a new “Arab Spring”, saying young people struggling to find jobs and a place in society were turning to “more direct, more violent” means to have their voices heard. The report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) urged Arab governments to seize “historic opportunities” provided by a new […]
JOINT EXECUTIVE MEETING OF ALL ANGLOPHONE TEACHER TRADE UNIONS HELD IN BAMENDA ON TUESDAY NOVEMBER 29, 2016 PRESS RELEASE Meeting today November 29, 2016 in Bamenda, all the Anglophone teacher trade unions of the Basic, Secondary and Vocational Education sectors, CATTU, TAC, PEATTU, CEWOTU and BATTUC, in a joint extraordinary executive bureau meeting, assessed the […]
