Police in Gabon’s capital, Libreville, have arrested more than 200 suspected looters as post-election tensions cause disruptions in the West African country. “We have arrested more than 200 looters since last night,” national police chief Jean-Thierry Oye Zue said on Thursday, adding, “Looting is currently continuing in the poorer districts.” Chaos hit the country shortly after […]
Inspection companies in the private sector are worried that certain verification requirements within the Conformity Assessment Programme, PECAE, do not consider local realities such as the state of roads. They propose modification of certain requirements in order to better protect citizens from the importation of substandard and counterfeit products and to ensure that products within […]
In Cameroon, some 1, 400, 000 children below the age of five are suffering from malnutrition. The situation is alarming in seven out of the ten regions of the country, most particularly in the Northern and East Regions. With the negative impact of malnutrition to the development of a country, the Federal Republic of Germany, […]
President Biya has recently been multiplying his long private stays out of the country. In just three months, the Cameroonian chief executive has travelled out of the country twice in what is often described by the state radio and television as “un bref sejour en Europe”. The reason for these numerous private- long- stay trips […]
Over 2,000 Nigerians have taken part in a protest rally calling for the release of prominent Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky. The protesters gathered on Wednesday in the capital Abuja and marched from the National Mosque to the Federal Secretariat chanting slogans in support of Zakzaky’s release and condemning his illegal detention, which has lasted […]
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto says he has told US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that Mexico will not pay for the candidate’s proposed wall along the Mexico-US border. “At the beginning of the conversation with Donald Trump, I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall,” said Pena Nieto said via Twitter […]
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said, if elected, he will establish a deportation force to crack down on violent undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Speaking on Wednesday night to his supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, Trump pledged to create “a special deportation task force” within the existing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency […]
Clashes have erupted in Gabon following an announcement that incumbent President Ali Bongo is the winner of contested weekend elections. Several hundred supporters of Jean Ping, Gabon’s main opposition presidential candidate, attempted to storm the offices of the election commission in the capital Libreville on Wednesday, shortly after authorities announced Bongo’s re-election by a narrow majority. Angry protesters […]
Two new ambassadors accredited to Cameroon have presented the advanced copies of their letters of credence to the Minister of External Relations in Yaounde. The first was the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to Cameroon 43 year old Stephane Doppagne. Before his appointment he was the Consul General of Belgium to Lumumbashi in the […]
Several members of Gabon’s election commission, known as Cenap, say the supervising body has approved the victory of incumbent President Ali Bongo over challenger Jean Ping. Cenap officials said on Wednesday that the vote count that had been disputed by delegates from Ping’s camp was approved after a secret ballot by members of the election commission. […]
