Following a crisis meeting between the Governor of the Littoral Region, Samuel Dieudonné Ivaha Diboua and commercial motorcycle trade union leaders, calm returned to Douala yesterday, September 22, 2016. Activities by motorbike riders resumed and continued normally after the tense standoff between riders and security forces and council staff on September 21, 2016. Samuel Dieudonné […]
Militants of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) have claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on an oil pipeline in the south of Nigeria, declaring an end to a ceasefire with the government agreed upon a month ago. NDA spokesman Mudoch Agbinibo said in a statement on Saturday that the militant group had destroyed Bonny pipeline in Rivers […]
A conference to deliberate on the marking scheme for the competitive entrance exam into the International relations Institute of Cameroon, IRIC is ongoing in the school campus in Yaounde. The conference has been organized at the end of written part of the 2016-2017 competitive entrance examination into IRIC after three days of writing. Some 833 candidates […]
A number of fatalities have purportedly occurred during heavy fighting between security forces and militants loyal to a slain tribal leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to the DRC government spokesman, the violence erupted in the country’s south central city of Kananga on Thursday and continued into Friday, with conflicting reports on the number of […]
A video has been released showing the moments before and after the fatal shooting of an African American man by police in Charlotte, North Carolina. The footage shows the wife of Keith Lamont Scott repeatedly telling officers he is not armed and pleading with them not to shoot her husband as they shout at him […]
Gabon’s Constitutional Court has given its verdict on the presidential election of August 27. The court through the voice of its president Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo, confirmed the re-election of outgoing President Ali Bongo with 50.66% vote cast. Jean Ping finished second with 47, 24% after a recount of polling station by polling station under the supervision […]
Cameroon Radio and Television, CRTV announced today Friday, September 23, 2016 a Prime Ministerial Order stating that: “You must be a Cameroonian to head any organization in the country.” The Philemon Yang order modifies the 2015 law on the management of companies such as the one on authors’ rights. The current Prime Minister, Philemon Yang […]
A new poll shows that nearly half of all voters believe that US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, if elected president, would allow use of a nuclear weapon to wage war against terrorist groups. According to a poll conducted and released by SurveyMonkey on Friday, nearly half of voters, making up 46 percent of the people surveyed, […]
In a video circulating on the internet for some days now, Antoine Christophe Agbepa Mumba, alias Koffi Olomide fired a salvo at Seydou Koné aka Alpha Blondy claiming the Ivorian reggae star has not done anything for his country. Said Koffi, “… Stop comparing me to that marijuana smoker whose only song remains Sweet Sweet […]
Authorities of the Economic Community of Central African States, ECCAS, have gone on an offensive mission to sensitize and advocate the commencement of the Central Africa Regional Free Trade Area slated to go operational in January 2017. The Deputy Secretary General of ECCAS, Cameroonian born Therese Chantal Mfoula was received with her delegation by the […]
