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France's Macron pushes economic ties in Angola
AFP, Published on 03/03/2023
» LUANDA - French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday pursued his African tour aimed at renewing frayed ties, inking an economic accord with Angola.
Macron: French interference in Africa 'over'
AFP, Published on 02/03/2023
» LIBREVILLE, Gabon: President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said the era of French interference in Africa was "well over" as he began a four-nation tour of the continent to renew frayed ties.
Mambo madness
Life, John Clewley, Published on 02/08/2022
» Latin music has been circling the globe for more than a century, creating dance crazes and inspiring local forms of music. From tango to reggaeton, with stops for mambo, rumba, son and salsa, bolero, Latin jazz and more, the Latin music juggernaut just keeps rolling on.
Chaos, controversy at Cup of Nations as Mali, Gambia and Ivory Coast all win
AFP, Published on 13/01/2022
» DOUALA: There were chaotic scenes at the Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday as Mali beat Tunisia in a game marred by controversy when the referee blew the final whistle before the 90 minutes had been played.
Cup of Nations 'beacon of hope' for battered Cameroon economy
AFP, Published on 16/08/2021
» YAOUNDE - The Africa Cup of Nations in January and February is a "beacon of hope" for a Cameroonian economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic and two conflicts, businessmen and traders say.
UN demands 'independent, impartial' probe of Cameroon deaths
AFP, Published on 19/02/2020
» GENEVA - The United Nations called on Cameroon Tuesday to conduct an independent investigation into the "shocking" killing of 23 villagers in a troubled English-speaking region and ensure the perpetrators be held accountable.
Cameroon army blames accident for village 'massacre'
AFP, Published on 17/02/2020
» YAOUNDé - Cameroon's army on Monday denied opposition charges that it had massacred villagers in a restive anglophone region, blaming instead an "unfortunate accident" caused by an explosion of fuel during a firefight.
Cameroon's war on anglophones is self-defeating
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/11/2019
» Sometimes Donald Trump gets it right. In February he cut off US military aid to the central African country of Cameroon because of its appalling human rights record (and didn't even offer to restore it if the Cameroon government dug up dirt on his political opponents at home). Last Friday he acted again, dropping Cameroon from a pact that promotes trade between sub-Saharan African countries and the US.
79 abducted pupils freed in troubled Cameroon region: minister
AFP, Published on 07/11/2018
» YAOUNDé - Seventy-nine school pupils abducted by gunmen this week in a troubled English-speaking region of Cameroon have been freed, the country's communications minister told AFP Wednesday.
Curfew in anglophone Cameroon ahead of 'independence' anniversary
AFP, Published on 30/09/2018
» YAOUNDé - Cameroon imposed a 48-hour curfew on its English-speaking regions a day ahead of the one-year anniversary of a symbolic "independence" declaration by anglophone separatists, officials said on Sunday.