Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi has praised African nations for their steadfastness in resisting global colonialism, calling it a sign of their vigilance, prudence and recognition of modern-day requirements. In a meeting with Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso Olivia Rouamba in Tehran on Monday, Raeisi said Iran has been developing positive relations with African states after […]
General Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup last week that toppled Gabon’s 55-year-old ruling dynasty, took the oath of office as interim president on Monday, promising “free, transparent and credible elections” to restore civilian rule but without giving a timeframe. Nguema, head of the elite Republican Guard, led officers in a coup on Wednesday […]
The Ministry of Defense said three soldiers were killed Friday in firing from Southern Cameroons restoration forces as tensions between Yaoundé and the Ambazonia Interim Government persist over reopening of schools. Yaoundé initially reported four soldiers were killed and one wounded, but later said one of those believed to have died was resuscitated. The ministry […]
A former Italian prime minister has claimed that a French air force missile had downed an Italian passenger jet in 1980 and killed all 81 people on board in a failed attempt to assassinate former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi. In an interview with Italian daily Repubblica published on Saturday, Giuliano Amato said the Itavia Airlines […]
Thousands rallied Saturday in Niger’s capital Niamey to demand that former colonial ruler France withdraw its troops as sought by a junta which seized power in June. The protesters gathered near a base housing French soldiers following a call by several civic organisations hostile to the French military presence in the West African country. They […]
At least one civilian was killed in an attack by Boko Haram overnight into Friday in Kolofata of Cameroon’s Far North Region, local and security sources said. The victim was killed as militants of the terror group raided and looted properties of civilians in a remote neighborhood of the locality, said a military official in […]
Why is it so often that problems seem to get worse just when they ought to be getting better? Or in a French-African context, how come President Emmanuel Macron is surveying the tatters of French policy – coups in four Francophone states – just when he thought he had turned his back on all the […]
A Nigerian Lawyer and Former Chairman of National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu has alleged that the Cameroon President, Paul Biya did not campaign in the last election and was strangely announced the winner. He said in an interview with Arise TV news that the democratic choices of the people in Africa have become strangulated […]
The National Chairman of the ruling CPDM crime syndicate in Yaoundé has condemned the recent coup in Gabon that ousted sit-tight leader, Ali Bongo Ondimba. Paul Biya, one of the longest-serving dictators in Africa has ruled for 41 years. A statement issued by the Minister of Communication, René Emmanuel Sadi, on Thursday, said, “The Government […]
The Cuban Foreign Ministry celebrated the 49th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Cameroon. The Ministry ratified on the social network X, formerly Twitter, the will to strengthen the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries. Cuba and Cameroon have maintained historic ties of collaboration, based on solidarity and mutual respect. Cameroon has […]
