Interpol has apprehended two suspects in the murder of a Burmese businessman who may have been involved in a counterfeit currency fraud in Bangkok’s downtown, three days after fleeing Thailand. They were detained in Cameroon. On February 14, a 51-year-old Burmese businessman, Kyaw Zeyar, was brutally beaten and killed at Saranjai Mansion in Bangkok’s Khlong […]
A New York judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s attempts to dismiss charges he covered up hush money payments to a porn star, setting the stage for the first criminal trial ever of a former US president to begin on March 25. At the same time, Trump’s representatives attended a separate hearing in Atlanta, pushing […]
The Anglophone conflict in Cameroon is entering its eighth year with no resolution in sight. Insurgents in the North West and South West – the country’s two Anglophone regions – are still attacking government soldiers but increasingly one another as well. Civilians bear the brunt of the fighting. Killings, abductions and sexual violence are almost […]
On February 14, 2020, Cameroonian soldiers and armed ethnic Fulani raided Ngarbuh, a village in Cameroon’s North-West province, killing at least 21 civilians, including 13 children and a pregnant woman, and burning and looting homes. It was a brutal day that shocked even those who had long become numb to increasing violence in the region. […]
Elections even under the one-party state in the days of President Ahmadou Ahidjo stood as the cornerstone of government establishment and security, grounded in the foundational principle of freedom. However, immediately Mr. Paul Biya took office in 1982, Cameroon’s electoral landscape suddenly became a distressing narrative and today; the nation is grappling with the erosion […]
President Joe Biden has blasted criticism of Nato by his likely 2024 election challenger, Donald Trump, as “dumb”, “shameful” and “un-American”. The Democrat assailed Mr Trump for saying he would “encourage” Russia to attack any Nato member that did not meet its defence spending quota. Mr Biden said the remarks underscored the urgency of passing […]
President Paul Biya on Monday condemned an attack on school children in the country’s conflict-torn English-speaking region of Northwest, which left a 15-year-old student killed and more than 40 others injured. The blast occurred Sunday in Nkambe, a town in the region, as schoolchildren were taking part in activities to mark the National Youth Day. […]
Germany is struggling to deport Cameroonians and other foreigners because embassy workers from their country of origin keep hanging up the phone when the government tries to reach them, a state minister has said. Tamara Zieschang, the state interior minister in Saxony-Anhalt, warned that around two-thirds of the countries involved in deportations were refusing to […]
Switzerland’s appeal court has upheld guilty verdicts against six bodyguards of Cameroon’s President Paul Biya for the 2019 assault of a journalist, the Keystone-ATS news agency reported Monday. The judges, whose ruling was confirmed by Robert Assael, a lawyer for one of the six, rejected their claims that they had immunity as they were protecting […]
At least two people died and 20 others were injured in an explosion on Sunday in Nkambe, Northwest region, according to witnesses and local police. The blast occurred in Nkambe, a town in the region, as school children were taking part in activities to mark National Youth Day, which has been celebrated in the country […]
