Police shot at protesters as they breached the parliament complex in Nairobi on Tuesday, with at least five demonstrators killed and dozens more wounded. Angry over proposed tax hikes, many protesters across the country are calling for President William Ruto to quit office. The mainly youth-led rallies, which began last week, have caught President William […]
The Cameroon football scene has become entrenched in a crisis with no immediate resolution in sight. The language between Samuel Eto’o, FECAFOOT, and MINSEP has notably changed since the Marc Brys affair. Tensions remain high despite the FIFA window for World Cup 2026 qualifiers and the “Indomitable Lions’” relatively favorable results. President Paul Biya had […]
An ordinance signed by President Paul Biya on June 20, 2024, amending Cameroon’s 2024 budget law, details how tax revenues from issuing identity documents, passports, and consular services are distributed. The private consortium INCM-Augentic, primarily responsible for providing these documents, is set to benefit the most from the fee increases. According to the ordinance, INCM-Augentic […]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been released from a high-security British prison after he reached a plea deal with the US authorities that ends his 12-year legal battle and allows him to return home to Australia. “Julian Assange is free,” Wikileaks said in a statement posted on social media platform X on Monday. According to […]
Many vendors at the Great Soppo Market, popularly known as “OIC Market”, have been displaced from their business locations by Buea municipality authorities. An ongoing road construction project is underway at the Bakweri town stretch in Great Soppo, which has led to the closure of the main road which leads to the area. Currently, vehicles […]
Gunmen have attacked a village in northwestern Nigeria, killing at least seven people and abducting more than 100 others, residents and police say. The attack took place in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state on Saturday night, residents and police said. According to residents, gunmen on motorbikes arrived in Maidabino village in the Danmusa local government area […]
The recent incidents of taxis being burned on our streets are deeply troubling. Taxis represent not just a mode of transportation but a vital source of livelihood for many in our communities in Ambazonia. These acts of destruction do not advance the cause of liberation or justice; instead, they harm the very people we seek […]
Malian singer Rokia Traore has been arrested in Italy over an outstanding two-year prison sentence in Belgium handed down in a child custody dispute, prosectors in Brussels said Sunday. The singer and guitarist was sentenced in absentia in October on charges of parental abduction, after fleeing France in 2020 when she was due to be […]
French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday he would “act until May 2027”, the end of his second term, regardless of who wins the snap parliamentary elections he called. “The incoming government, which will necessarily reflect your vote, will I hope resemble the various republicans who will have shown the courage to oppose the extremes,” Macron […]
A Kenyan force will leave for Haiti on June 25 to lead a UN-backed mission to tackle gang violence, despite court challenges against it, government and police sources said Sunday. Kenya offered to send about 1,000 police to stabilise Haiti alongside personnel from several other countries, but the deployment has run into legal challenges in […]
