Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has awarded Russian President Vladimir Putin a newly-created peace prize, which is named in honor of the Latin American nation’s late leader Hugo Chavez. “I’ve decided to create the Hugo Chavez Prize for Peace and Sovereignty,” said Maduro during the unveiling ceremony of a statue of Chavez designed by a Russian […]
A consortium of Cameroonian democratic forces in the diaspora has given President Biya an ultimatum to quit the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva before midnight today the 7th of October or face severe consequences. A statement made public by the London chapter of the movement noted that Biya has 48 hours beginning today to leave Geneva […]
18,364,546,702 FCFA is the sum that the former general manager of the Cameroon State Radio and Television, Gervais Mendo Ze has been accused of embezzling during his time as head of the corporation from 1988 to 2005. This was revealed by the public prosecutor during a submission at the Special Criminal Court on Thursday. The […]
The national gendarmerie brigade at Sagmé in the Fotokol district in the Logon and Chari Division came under heavy gun fire on the night of the 6th to 7th of October 2016 by suspected Boko Haram militants from Nigeria. Cameroon government sources have confirmed that an admiral known as maréchal de logis-chef was killed during the […]
“His Royal Highness, the Paramount Chief of Mamfe and members of the royal family announce with very great sadness the death of Queen REGINA AYAMO OBEN,” a statement from the Mamfe royal palace” had said. The nation gave her a befitting burial on Saturday the 1st of October 2016. An educationist and a devout Roman […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the global debt has risen to an all-time high of around $152 trillion, warning that this could trigger a new financial crisis. “At 225 percent of world GDP, the global debt …is currently at an all-time high. Two-thirds, amounting to about $100 trillion, consists of liabilities of the private […]
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has unanimously supported former Portuguese premier, Antonio Guterres, to be the next secretary general of the world body. During a closed-door meeting on Thursday, the 15-member council adopted a resolution formally recommending that the UN General Assembly appoint Guterres for a five-year term from January 1, 2017. The 67-year-old socialist politician […]
A document which will serve as a working tool for forests exploiters has been presented in Yaounde. The 58 page document makes public the prerequisites for forest exploitation throughout the national territory. According to the document every tree will be localised, identified and given a code before it is felled. The presentation ceremony was presided over by […]
Violent clashes have left eleven people dead in the Central African Republic’s (CAR) capital, Bangui, over the past days following the assassination of an army commander. “At this stage we think (the victims) are all civilians,” said Herve Verhoosel, the spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MINUSCA) in the CAR on Thursday. “Fourteen people are […]
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has dismissed as untrue accusations that government forces target hospitals and civilian infrastructure in the war-torn country, saying such actions run contrary to Damascus’ interests. Assad made the remarks in an interview with Denmark’s TV2 station, whose excerpts were released on Thursday. Some opposition groups and relief agencies have recently claimed that […]
