Cameroon has been ranked in the top 10 of the riskiest countries in the world
Cameroon has been ranked in the top 10 of the riskiest countries in the word The 2019 early warning project has revealed that there is a 7.6%, or approximately 1 in 13 chance of a new mass killing beginning in Cameroon in 2019 or 2020. Ranking Cameroon as the 9th...
Cameroon: Opposition parliamentarians rubbished bilingualism bill.
Top opposition parliamentarians rubbish the adoption of the controversial law on the use and promotion of bilingualism in Cameroon. SDF parliamentarians have criticized the passing of the bill on the promotion of English and French as the 2 official languages in court...
Boko Haram killed over 275 people in Cameroons far north region
Boko Haram killed over 275 people in Cameroons far north region Amnesty International says the Cameroon government has to adopt more strategies to end the Boko Haram insurgencies despite government’s claims at the beginning of the year that the terrorist group is...
Meeting of Sahel leaders with president Emmanuel Macron postponed .
Meeting of Sahel leaders with president Emmanuel Macron postponed as a result of 71 dead soldiers in Niger Niger's Defense Ministry said Wednesday that 71 troops were ambushed and killed by armed militants in a Nigerian camp near the border with Mali. The over 3 hour...
Cameroon: Parliament called on the request of Paul Biya as proceedings wrapped.
An extraordinary session of parliament called on the request of the head of state of Cameroon as proceedings wrapped up at the assembly house Last parliamentary session 2019 The last parliamentary session for the year 2019 has concluded in Yaoundé Cameroon with most...
Nigeria: The secret prosecution of Nigerian journalist Jones Abiri
The case against Abiri sets a dangerous precedent, threatening freedom of the press in Nigeria. A familiar secrecy is set to dominate the renewed prosecution of Nigerian journalist Jones Abiri. On December 12, Abiri is scheduled to appear again in federal court where...
Ghana: High Court orders striking teachers back to class
An Accra High Court has ordered the striking teacher unions to discontinue their strike action. The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers have also been ordered by the...
US targets ADF members for sanction
US targets ADF members for sanction Five members of the Ugandan rebellion of the ADF are targeted by US sanctions, including the leader of the movement, Musa Baluku. The United States announced on December 10, 2019, new sanctions against 18 individuals accused of...
Ivory Coast: Meiway finally quotes all those responsible for the death of DJ Arafat
The artist is a legend in Ivory Coast. He is well known and is well respected for the work he has been doing for decades. As such, he can give advice to brothers of the younger generation especially if they are quite open. This is what he claims to have tried in vain...
Cameroon: Camair Co Crisis – An emergency diagnosis undertaken by the Cameroonian government.
Camair-Co Crisis: An emergency diagnosis undertaken by the Cameroonian government. Faced with a new period of commotion that the Cameroon Airlines coorporation (CAMAIR-CO) encounters and likely to seal its fate, actions are being set up by the Cameroonian state. The...
Cameroon Legislative and Municipal Elections: The episcopal conference denounces the electoral code.
Cameroon Legislative and Municipal Elections: The episcopal conference denounces the electoral code. According to his Lordship Abraham Kome, this law does not guarantee the transparency of the polls in Cameroon. A few weeks before the twin elections scheduled for 9...
Cameroon: Atanga Nji says a security company in Douala has a hidden agenda.
Atanga Nji says a security company in Douala has a hidden agenda. The Minister of Territorial Administration is asking the said corporation to cease its activities. In a communiqué, the Minister of Territorial Administration (Minat) have just drawn the attention of...
Cameroon: Government shuts down hundreds of schools.
The Cameroon government has shut down more than 260 schools that had been operating informally in the country’s francophone regions. The schools had been opened to help absorb students fleeing the separatist uprising in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions. I travelled...
2022 World Cup: Samuel Eto’o in a campaign tour in Africa.
2022 World Cup: Samuel Eto'o in a campaign tour in Africa. Designated as ambassador of the 2022 Qatar world football game, Samuel Éto'o Fils started for some time, an African tour and meeting different Heads of State to promote the upcoming event. Ambassador of the...
Who is Nady Bamba, Laurent Gbagbo’s second wife?
Who is Nady Bamba, Laurent Gbagbo's second wife? Nady Bamba, in her forties, is a former journalist and mother of a child, Al Raïs Gbagbo. She was formerly Africa Radio No. 1 Correspondent and founder of the Cyclone Communications Group. A practicing Muslim, and the...
TODAY: December 10, 2004, Senegal abolishes the death penalty.
TODAY: December 10, 2004, Senegal abolishes the death penalty. Established in the 1960s, the death penalty became an integral part of the penal code for decades. It remained so though it was to be applied twice during its existence. The provision of the penal code was...
The 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump explained – and what happens next
WASHINGTON – The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday unveiled two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The articles – abuse of power and obstruction of Congress – are charges of wrongdoing that lay out specific assertions of how the president...
Cameroon: UN urged government to adopt recommendations of Major National Dialogue
At the UN Security Council, Francois Loucemy, head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa said the rapid implementation of the recommendations adopted during the Yaounde Major National Dialogue will help to reduce the intensity of the conflict in the...
Cameroon: His Majesty Biloa Effa: “my dismissal is a mere farce”
The traditional leader does not remain indifferent after his dismissal, pronounced by Atanga Nji, Minister of Territorial Administration. On Friday, December 6, 2019, the information was released on a decision taken by the Minister of Territorial Administration in...
Cameroon: Laying the foundation stone of the future National Assembly
President Paul Biya the president of Cameroon expected in Ngoa-Ekelle this Thursday. It is on Thursday, December 12, 2019 that the laying of the foundation stone of the future building of the National Assembly will take place on the Ngoa-Ekelle site. Head of State...
Cameroon: 451 lists selected for the 2020 Twin elections.
Cameroon: 451 lists selected for the 2020 Twin elections. Elections Cameroon, the organ in charge of the organization of the elections, published the various lists on Monday December 9, 2019. We are now focused on the political parties that will take part in the...
Clara Ninenyui: CEO/Creative Director -UK House of Clara (HOC)
I came with it, I was born with it. It came naturally to me. I was that five years old who used to style everyone around them. Who instead of playing barbie with my girlfriends, I will style them all up. Weird I know, but yeah as little as five, there was a certain...
Red Cross confirmed 16 dead in Uganda floods
Red Cross confirmed 16 dead in Uganda floods. Torrential rain falls in Uganda has left over 16 persons dead with some homes washed away with a good number of road blocked and or destroyed. A phenomenon which has been linked with the unusual weather phenomenon in the...
Andy Ruiz Jr wants a third fight against Anthony Joshua.
Andy Ruiz Jr wants a third fight against Anthony Joshua The Mexican-American made it clear in a post match reaction that he will love to have another crack at the British after the hotly contested battle he had with him in Saudi Arabia this weekend. In response Joshua...
Finland set to have the world’s youngest female Prime Minister
Finland set to have the world's youngest female Prime Minister Current transport minister Sanna Marin has been selected by her Social Democratic party after Antti Rinne quit as Prime Minister. Her swearing in ceremony is set for next week as she is said to lead a...
Miss South Africa crowned Miss Universe 2019
Who won miss universe 2019 Zozibini Tunzi, a 26-year-old black woman, finished in front of the rival of Puerto Rico and Mexico. Zozibini Tunzi, Miss South Africa, was crowned Miss Universe 2019 Sunday night December 8, 2019 in Atlanta (USA), after a ceremony where...
Bob Marley’s widow, Rita Marley finally gets a Ghanaian nationality!
Rita Marley, the wife of legendary reggae musician Bob Marley, has been granted Ghanaian citizenship. Marley was among the 126 Africans in the diaspora to whom President Akufo-Addo granted Ghanaian citizenship on Wednesday, December 4, 2019. According to the Ghanaian...
5 people kidnapped and found slaughtered by Boko Haram.
Cameroon - Far North Region: 5 people kidnapped and found slaughtered by Boko Haram. Villagers were kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram jihadists in the far north region of Cameroon last Friday December 6, 2019 in Tolkomari in Kolofata municipality. On Saturday evening,...
Cameroon: Mother and daughter aborts 8 months old pregnancy.
A twenty year old girl is said to have aborted an eight month old pregnancy with the help of her mother. The pregnant girl whose name we got as Oteh Bridget left Bafoussam where she has been leaving to meet the mother in Kotto Nacthigal, in the Mbanga Sub division,...
Gabon: Ali Bongo’s son appointed Coordinator of Presidential Affairs.
The Gabonese president appoints his eldest son to coordinate presidential affairs. President Ali Bongo Ondimba, who had succeeded his father and has been in power for 42 years, a decade ago has called his eldest son to the helm in the presidency. At the end of a...
Law suit: “A pastor accuses his wife of witchcraft and asks for divorce”
Law suit: "A pastor accuses his wife of witchcraft and asks for divorce" During a hearing at the Court of First Instance of Yaoundé on November 27, 2019, Camile filed an application for divorce before the court. According to information received, he blames Pauline,...
Food insecurity hits crisis regions of Cameroon
Food insecurity in Cameroon affects 13 Divisions in the crisis zones of the North West, Southwest and Far North Regions.In total, 1368,000 people are nutritionally insecured. These are the results of an statistics that took place in October. They were introduced by...
Cameroon: Government plans to reconstruct the NW and SW despite ongoing crisis.
The government of Cameroon insist on continuous plans to reconstruct the North West and South West regions of Cameroon despite the ongoing crisis plaguing these regions for the past three years. Despite the statement of the Head of State, Paul Biya to grant a special...
Cameroon: Manaouda Malachie Minister of Public Health launches a new vaccination campaign against measles.
14 death cases from measles and 42 cases of rubella have already been registered in a few months. It is the statistics published by the Ministry of Public Health before the launch of the vaccination campaign against viral diseases and highly contagious viruses on...
Camerron: intermediate lions set to go for round two before CHAN 2020 begins
Lions intermediate coach Yves Clement Arroga has made public a list of 35 players to take part in a 2nd camping from the 9th to the 23rd of December 2019. The coach of the intermediate lions called up 5 players from the league 2 championship notably goalkeeper...
Supreme Court keeps federal executions on hold
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday blocked the Trump administration from restarting federal executions next week after a 16-year break. The justices denied the administration’s plea to undo a lower court ruling in favor of inmates who have been given...
Senator Orji Uzor Kalu convicted for fraud
A top member of Buhari's party has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after he was found guilty of 39 charges of fraud which is said to amount to over $19.6 million. Senator Orji Uzor Kalu is a chief whip in the federal parliament's upper house and a former...
57 migrants dead off the coast of Mauritania
Mauritanian authorities have confirmed that 57 people have died after a vessel carrying migrants sank off its coast this Wednesday with over 150 persons on board after it left the Gambia a few hours into its journey. The U.N Agency said that over 83 people...
White House won’t participate in impeachment hearings, tells Nadler to ‘end this inquiry now’.
The White House said Friday it will not participate in House Judiciary Committee impeachment proceedings, blasting the inquiry as "completely baseless" in a curt response to Democrats ahead of Monday's scheduled hearing. “House Democrats have wasted enough of...
Pelosi directs House Democrats to proceed with articles of impeachment against Trump.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday told the House committees investigating President Donald Trump to proceed with articles of impeachment. “The president’s actions have seriously violated the Constitution,” the California Democrat told reporters on Capitol Hill....
Sowore vs DSS: Nigeria sliding into dictatorship under Buhari – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the furious invasion of the Federal High Court by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) has confirmed that Nigeria, under the President Muhammadu Buhari, is finally sliding into a frightening dictatorship. PDP...
Cameroon: Atanga Nji dethrones His Majesty Biloa Effa from his position as district chief.
The Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji signed today, December 6, 2019, a decree dismissing Biloa Effa, 3rd degree traditional chief of the Messa Nkoba'a district of Yaounde II subdivision. His Majesty Biloa Effa is no longer the leader of the Messa...
Cameroon: Akere Muna speaks out on controversial bilingualism bill.
The recent controversial bill on the promotion of bilingualism in Cameroon has attracted a lot of criticisms from political party leaders, civil society activists and lawyers. The controversial bill on the promotion of bilingualism in Cameroon submitted to parliament...
Cameroon: Biya appoints and transfers new Generals and colonels
Armed Force: Paul Biya the president of Cameroon appoints Eleven Colonels and Generals. On December 5, 2019, the head of state, Paul Biya made new appointments. This time, it concerns the central administration of the Ministry of Defense specifically the generals and...
John Dumelo: “Ghana must legalize polygamy”
The Ghanaian actor and politician said polygamy should be legalized in Ghana because most men have mistresses. The actor, while calling for the abolition of the Ghanaian Marriage and Polygamy law, explained that most married men have women with whom they have a...
Son of Gabon president appointed ‘coordinator of presidential affairs, a post “next to president”.
The eldest son of Gabonese president Ali Bongo Ondimba, Noureddin Bongo Valentin, has been handed a political appointment at the presidency according to reports. He was appointed “coordinator of presidential affairs” on Thursday with the main mandate “to assist the...
Ernest Obama, Vision 4 journalist has been fired.
Report says Ernest Obama, journalist with Vision 4 Television in Yaounde has been fired off his duty. He was suspended some months ago after involving in a financial scandal. During his suspension, investigations to his financial scandal were ongoing. Ernest Obama was...
Top Nigerian senator guilty of stealing $19.6m
Top Nigerian senator guilty of stealing $19.6m Prominent Nigerian senator Orji Uzor Kalu has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of 39 fraud charges amounting to $19.6m (£14.9m). Kalu is a member of President Muhammadu Buhari's All...
Cameroon: English speaking lawyers in Bamenda take to the streets again
Lawyers in the North West Region are on strike as court activities are paralyzed in the region with the lawyers protesting against a bill tabled in parliament on the use of the English and French languages in court rooms across the regions. They used this strike...
Nigeria: Bills on hate speech and social media are dangerous attacks on freedom of expression.
The Nigerian Senate is currently considering two harsh bills relating to freedom of expression online, including one which proposes the death penalty for ‘hate speech.’ These bills, supported by the Nigerian government, represent an alarming escalation in the...
Nigeria: Pirates attack and hijack a fully loaded supertanker.
A group of pirates have kidnapped 19 sailors after waylaying then boarding a supertanker loaded with oil, according to reports. Among the 19 crews are 18 Indians and one Turk were on board a large crude carrier. They were abducted 66 nautical miles, south of Bonny...
Cameroon: Government members defend budget at the National Assembly
Members of the committee on finance and the budget at the National Assembly in Cameroon have heightened the scrutiny of the 2020 finance bill as they examine some of the biggest budgetary allegations chaired by Honorable Rosette Ayayi chairperson of the budget and...
Cameroon: Catholic priests take results of the peace caravan to the star building
Catholic prelates tasked with preaching peace in the North West and South West Regions have today met up with Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute. Christian Cardinal Tumi and Bishop George Nkea all presented results on the peace caravan launched by the PM which they all...
9 takeaways from the House Judiciary Committee’s first impeachment hearing
(CNN) On Wednesday morning, the House Judiciary Committee convened its first hearing in the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump -- bringing in four constitutional lawyers to debate what, exactly, constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors" and whether...
George Zimmerman suing Trayvon Martin’s family for $100M after filmmaker claims witness faked
George Zimmerman is filing a $100 million lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family and officials involved in prosecuting him for the teenager’s 2012 killing, after a filmmaker known for conspiracy theories claimed that a key witness in the case was faked, according to...
Robert Mugabe left behind $10 million without a will.
Robert Mugabe's daughter disclosed to the country's High Court the assets of her father after the family could not locate his will. The former president of Zimbabwe of late, Robert Mugabe left behind $10 million and a number of properties but no will naming his...
Department of Homeland Security May Require U.S. Citizens to Be Photographed at Airports
DALLAS — Federal officials are considering requiring that all travelers — including American citizens — be photographed as they enter or leave the country as part of an identification system using facial-recognition technology. The Department of Homeland Security says...
Mayo-Sava: Seven dead four wounded and food stolen due to Boko Haram attacks.
In twenty-four hours, Boko Haram attacked three villages in the Mayo Sava division. The record of these carefully prepared incursions is 07 dead and four wounded. The most recent attack occurred on the night of 2nd to 3th December 2019 in Zangola village, located in...
The former mayor of Buea, Patrick Ekema will be laid to rest on December 14th.
Patrick Ekema died on October 27, 2019.The Mayor of Buea will be buried on December 14th. A source close to the family confirmed the information to our reporter. A preparatory meeting for the funeral of the late Patrick EKEMA ESUNGE was held last weekend in Douala....
House Democrats vote to adopt Trump impeachment report, blast scheme to ‘solicit foreign interference’ in 2020 race.
The Democrat-led House Intelligence Committee late Tuesday voted to adopt and issue its scathing report on the findings from the panel's impeachment inquiry, accusing President Trump of misusing his office to seek foreign help in the 2020 presidential race. The 13-9...
2019 Ballon d’Or: Habib Beye: “Mané is 4th because he is African”
2019 Ballon d'Or: Habib Beye: "Mané is 4th because he is African" Sadio Mané's 4th place at the 2019 Ballon d'Or is making a lot of noise. Many voices have risen to stand against the ranking of Senegalese player, author of an exceptional year and who could at least...
A Cameroonian expelled from Ivory Coast for criticizing France
A Swiss-Cameroonian activist Nathalie Yamb, of the Ivorian opposition party "Lider", has been from expelled on Monday 2nd December from Ivory Coast, a few weeks after her intervention against the "Françe afrique" in Sochi during the Russia-African summit. According to...
Nineteen pregnant women rescued from “baby factories” in Nigeria.
I have slept with seven different men before I discovered I was pregnant,’ victim says Police rescued 19 pregnant girls who had been kidnapped and raped from properties in Lagos dubbed “baby factories”. Most of the women, aged between 15 and 28, were abducted and...
Cameroon: Government says February twin elections will not be postponed.
The government of Cameroon have asserted that the reasons advanced by some political parties to boycott and or postponed the February twin elections, especially on the grounds of insecurity in the North West and South West region are not valid, hence the elections...
Nigerian singer “Flavor” accused of denying the paternity of his three-year-old daughter.
In Nigeria, a woman is accusing the artist of refusing to recognize the fatherhood of her daughter. In a publication on her instagram wall, Juliet Oluchi Ehiemere says Flavor is the would be father of her three-year-old daughter. She insists on that and is willing to...
Trump loses appeal to block Deutsche Bank, Capital One from handing his financial records to Congress.
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Deutsche Bank and Capital One must hand over years of President Donald Trump’s financial records in compliance with House Democrats’ subpoenas. The ruling in the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals offers another...
Ballon d’Or 2019: Sadio Mané reacts to his 4th place.
Fourth in the ranking of the Ballon d'Or France Football 2019 but absent from the ceremony on Monday, Sadio Mané had took time to leave a video message. Lionel Messi became, on Monday December 2nd 2019, the first player to win the Ballon d'Or for the 6th time, just 32...
France paid tribute to 13 soldiers killed in Mali
Emmanuel Macron has paid national tribute to 13 soldiers killed in Mali in a helicopter accident while fighting jihadist insurgents, sparking debate over the country’s mission in western Africa. A national tribute to the 13 soldiers killed during an operation in Mali...
Messi Beats Van Dijk And Cristiano Ronaldo To Win A Record Sixth Ballon D’Or
Lionel Messi is the winner of the Ballon d’Or for 2019. It’s the sixth time Messi has won the prestigious award, one more than his great rival Cristiano Ronaldo. Between 2008 and 2017 the two superstars dominated the award with 5 wins each. A year ago Real Madrid’s...
Douala: youths wants all Malians and foreigners to leave Cameroon
Police have used rubber bullets to disperse a crowd that gathered in the Nkomondo neighborhood this afternoon protesting and threatening to send away all Malians and foreigners who live around the area. They clashed with police officers with most of them sustaining...
Cameroon: Piccini S.A has threatened to sue the government of Cameroon.
The Italian group, Piccini S.A responsible for the construction of the Olembe Stadium has threatened to sue the government of Cameroon over a decision to cancel the contract for the company to construct the Olembe football stadium. The reason for the cancellation of...
Trump will not participate in impeachment hearing, White House says
The White House has said US President Donald Trump and his lawyers will not attend an impeachment hearing on Wednesday, citing a lack of "fairness". The hearing by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee marks the next stage of the probe, with legal experts...
Nigerian sex traffickers jailed in France
A French court sentenced 24 members of a Lyon-based sex trafficking ring to prison terms of up to seven years for forcing Nigerian women into prostitution. Nearly all of the defendants were themselves Nigerian, in the latest case to highlight the growing use of...
Barrister Akere Muna condemned attack on Camair Co aircraft
One of Cameroon most famous lawyer and leader of the Now Movement, Barrister Akere Muna has condemned the act of the Ambazonian fighters on Camair Co aircraft MA60 and termed in an act of international terrorism. In a tweet yesterday, his reactions condemns the act...
Anglophone Crisis: The United Nations condemns the killing of a humanitarian worker.
UN Humanitarian Coordinator Allegra Baiocchi calls Pascal Ngwayi's murder a war crime. We are not able to conduct operations safely, "Allegra Baiocchi said in a statement issued on November 30 to condemn the killing of an agent of the GO Corminsud (Community...
Cameroon: A laundry man ‘Rapes’ and Kills 9-Year Old Girl In Douala.
After it was announced some four days ago that little Tracy Cecile went missing, the lifeless body of the 9-year old girl was discovered in an advanced state of decomposition in the room of a Malian national in the Nkomondo neighborhood of the Douala 2 municipality....
Douala Cameroon: Two men riddled with bullets in front of a bank.
Two individuals fired gun shots at two men leaving a bank in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon. According to eye witnesses, the two men were from the Afriland First Bank agency in Bonanjo, Douala's administrative head quarter Cameroon, on Monday morning,...
Cameroon: Lions set to roar against Cape Verde
Cameroon plays Cape Verde this Wednesday in Yaounde at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in a 2021 African Cup of Nations qualifier. Ahead of this all-important clash, the head trainer of the indomitable lions Antonio Conceicao and captain Eric Maxim moving have reassured...
Cameroon: ART announces the imminent arrival of 5G
According to the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ART), the outlook for this year is notably the setting up of foresight frameworks to prepare for the arrival and deployment of 5G. Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ART), does not specify when the arrival of...
Cameroon: Paul Biya and Wife in Paris for the Paris Peace Forum
The presidential couple is in France ahead of the Paris Peace Forum. President Paul Biya alongside other heads of states is expected to take part in this forum convened by French President Emmanuel Macron. The invited guest are expected to take part in a reception...
Patricia Scotland finally reads out the content of her package to Paul Biya.
Patricia Scotland: Mr President I regret to inform you that you have not well exploited our recommendations to resolve the problem and we have to assist you understand the choice of the Anglophone people. We encourage you to accept the Swiss mediation to put an...
Cameroon: municipal and legislative elections set for 2020
Elections Cameroon Officials alongside the ministry of territorial administration is meeting to talk on means of ensuring a successful organization of the February 29 municipal and legislative elections given the security situation that reigns within the country....
Cameroon: Maurice Kamto Still hanging on to the idea of a presidential win
professor Maurice Kamto has insisted that he won the October 7 elections. Speaking on Equinox Television this Sunday on La Verite en Face the legalist told Cameroonians that he rightfully won the elections going by figures he had from the field leading him to...
Cameroon: Camair-Co reacts to the incident that occurred in Bamenda this morning.
Cameroon - Northwest Region. Bullets spray on a Camair-co plane Shortly before landing at the Bafut Airport North West Region of Cameroon, on Sunday, December 1, 2019. A stray bullet hit the left-wing of the plane and pierced through into the Cabin. Information...
Nigeria: 17-year-old boy leaves school to marry 16-year-old girl.
There had been speculations that the boy might be the only child in his family, hence this early marriage. But there were arguments about that as it was later revealed that the boy has a senior brother who is a graduate and works in a hospital in Anambra State. To...
Namibia’s President Hage Geingob wins re-election
President Hage Geingob got 56.3% in Wednesday's election, well ahead of his nearest rival Panduleni Itula with 29.4%. He went on social media to thank Namibians for returning him to office, promising to bring tan Namibia's President Hage Geingob has been re-elected...
Kenya refuses to overturn ban on gay sex.
Kenya's High Court has blocked an attempt to overturn a law banning gay sex, in a significant set back for LGBT+ rights across Africa. Judges claimed repealing British colonial-era laws would open the door to same sex marriage in a country and continent that continues...
Hunter Biden demands financial records are kept secret in child support suit: report
Hunter Biden filed a protective order this week in an effort to seal his financial records from being released publicly -- amid his fears that the information would be used “maliciously” by the media and cause him public “embarrassment,” according to a report. Former...
Benin asks the EU Ambassador to leave the country
The Beninese government has given until December 1 to the ambassador of the European Union Mission to leave the territory, accusing him of interference in domestic affairs, revealed on Wednesday to several diplomatic sources. "He (Oliver Nette) fits far too much into...
Ivory Coast: Collision between two helicopters belonging to the army.
We have not finished talking about the collision between the French army's helicopters that collided in Mali some days ago, and Côte d'Ivoire is experiencing the same accident. The incident occurred on Wednesday morning 27 November. Two military helicopters from the...
London Bridge: A man shot to dead by police
London Bridge stabbing attack declared 'terrorist incident'; suspect shot dead A man was shot dead today in London by the London Metropolitan police in a precaution to respond to the London bridge incident. The police commissioner in a press conference explained and...
The United States comes to the aid of over 200 Malawians
The sum of US$4.5 million has been offered by the United States to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to help support 217,000 people faced with severe hunger in Malawi. The funds, provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will...
EU ambassador to Benin sent away by President
A communiqué from the president of Benin's office has ordered the immediate departure of the European Union’s ambassador to the country citing political interference. Oliver Nette is described as “harmful,” by the head of states communiqué while adding that the West...
Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi says he will resign
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi will resign after nearly two months of anti-government protests, according to a statement from his office. People set off fireworks as they celebrated his resignation in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, after...
Becoming a bookmaker, Samuel Eto’o will undergo a training at Harvard.
Samuel Eto'o does not intend to remain inactive outside the football fields. After recently announcing his end of football career in early September, the former Cameroon striker set up his online game company. A company named "Bet Eto'o" that the 38 years old Star...
2019 Ranking of African countries that consume alcohol the most according to the WHO.
For the year 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently published the 2019 ranking of African countries that consume the most alcohol per capita. In this ranking, we find two countries of Central Africa namely Gabon and Cameroon who occupy the lead,...
Ivory Coast: A child can now bear the name of his father and mother (Council of Ministers).
Minister Sidi Toure, spokesman of the government, announced that within the framework of equality between men and women, a child can now bear the name of his father and his mother, this comes in after the council of ministers held their meeting on Wednesday 27...
Nigeria: An international conference on witchcraft provokes outrage.
The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), opened on Tuesday in Nsukka the first international conference on witchcraft. A two-day meeting for which the Nigeria Christian Association (NCA) strongly opposed. The Nigerian University in Enugu State, organized a conference...
SDF called for peace to be restored else won’t participate in February 9 twin election.
The Social Democratic Front, SDF, has threatened to boycott the February 9, 2019 twin elections if peace is not restored in the two Anglophone regions of the country. Joshua Osih, the first Vice president of the party made this declaration during a press conference...
Cameroon: University of Bamenda Campus: Prohibition of motorcycles and taxis in the university area by the SDO of Mezam Division.
The Bamenda university campus has prohibited motorcycles in the school premises. The decision comes from the civil administrator. The Senior Divisional Officer for Mezam Division, Emile Simon Mooh, who accuses motorcyclists of being indicators and are being paid by...
