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Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has called for dialogue as the best solution to end the political crisis in Southern Cameroon, which prompted an influx of refugees into Nigeria. Mbasogo made the remarks in Abuja during a media briefing after a closed door meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

He noted that every country had its own peculiar crisis, but that they all need to seek solutions for them. “Cameroon is a big nation whose crisis requires the concern of all forces. There is no nation without its own crisis,” Mbasogo said. “What is required is to seek solution through dialogue and use it to find a common axis. Those seeking refuge in other lands need to sit down together and find solution through dialogue.

It is only through that, they can find solution to the crisis,” he added. The ongoing crisis in Cameroon’s Anglophone region has forced thousands to flee the country to neighbouring states to seek refuge. Many of the residents there are demanding autonomy from Cameroon, saying subsequent leaderships there have always marginalized the region. Mbasogo also commended Buhari’s efforts in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency, saying he had done a good job so far.

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Rita Akana

24.Jan.2018

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The SUN Newspaper, Cameroon:The Senior Divisional Officer, SDO for Meme, Chamberlain Ntou’ou Ndong has on Tuesday January 16, 2018 survived an attack by Ambazonian freedom fighters at his GRA up station residence, Kumba.
The incidence took place at about 2:40am but was quickly brought under control by military officers guarding his abode

Reports hold that one Ambazonian soldier spotted by military men at the SDO’s residence disregarded orders for him to stop but, rather made for the door. They shot at him severally after the first bullet failed to take life out of him. The unidentified guy fled into the bushes, strengthening the belief they are impenetrable by bullets.

He was however apprehended by the uniform officers and during interrogation, the Ambazonian soldier disclosed that he had been sent by his boss to monitor the officers stationed at the SDO’s residence for them to plan their attack.
The SUN could not get the name of the ‘odeshi’ fighter (local appellation for someone who is impenetrable by bullets) because according to Meme SDO, he had no identification documents on him when he was caught.
He was later taken to the Kumba Central Police Station for further investigations. Meanwhile, reasons why the SDO’s residence was targeted are yet to be known.

Our sources disclosed that the gang of fighters who were hiding some kilometers from the SDO’s residence waiting for an alert from their colleague disappeared when they realized he had been apprehended.

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Rita Akana

23.Jan.2018

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Military authorities in Gambia arrested two of ex-strongman Yahya Jammeh’s generals after they returned unexpectedly from exile over the weekend, the army said in a statement on Monday.

Gambia’s current President Adama Barrow was sworn in a year ago as a West African regional intervention force closed in on the capital Banjul forcing Jammeh, who had refused to accept his defeat in elections, to flee to Equatorial Guinea.  

Umpa Mendy, Jammeh’s principal protection officer, and the former head of the State Guards Battalion Ansumana Tamba had both accompanied the former leader into exile. But the army statement said they flew back into Gambia on Sunday.

“They were arrested at their respective homes ... and are currently detained at the Yundum Military Barracks, where they are helping the military police with their investigations,” the statement said.

It did not say why the two men returned to Gambia or on what charges they had been arrested.

Barrow is still seeking to assert control following the end of 22 years of Jammeh’s authoritarian rule under which the military served as a key pillar of a regime notorious for jailing and torturing political opponents.

The new government has replaced or dismissed a number of senior military officers, some of them suspected of being members of a group called the Jungulars, which many Gambians say carried out killings on behalf of the government.

However, the army still contains many former supporters of Jammeh. Barrow’s allies have repeatedly warned of the possibility that exiled officers were working to undermine the new government from abroad.

Reuters

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Rita Akana

23.Jan.2018

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Inside Nigerian territory and holding a very charged press conference deep inside Abuja could have been very daring and courageous of him.

The press conference was chaired by Chris Anu and flanked by the cream of lawyers handling the case. 

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Ismail Belo

22.Jan.2018

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Liberia is ready for kickoff, take off if you like. The West African nation today, January 22, swears in one history maker as the other bows out.

George Manneh Weah will become its president – the first African footballer to achieve that feat while Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Africa’s first democratically female president will leave office after over a decade in charge. 

Weah won presidential elections last year to emerge the successor to Sirleaf beating then vice president Joseph Boakai twice in a space of three months.

In the first round of voting in October 2017, Weah came top but failed to garner the necessary votes. He went into a runoff with Boakai in December and emerged winner with over 60% of votes cast. This will be Liberia’s first democratic handover of executive power in decades.

Africannews

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Rita Akana

22.Jan.2018

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Chinese technicians are expected to start offering after sale services to beneficiaries of President Biya's controversial laptops later this month. The two state universities in Yaoundé have received 80,000 of the 500,000 laptops promised by Mr Biya in 2016.

The manager of the Chinese firm behind the fabrication is expected in Cameroon on Monday, reports have said. 

The technicians will have to handle eventual problems with the computers as well as drill some students on how to be exploit them.

In the meantime several problems have been observed by some users of the laptops. Most people complain of bad chargers. Some students have sold theirs for as less as FCFA 15,000, which is far below the cost price, estimated at over FCFA 150,000. 

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Rita Akana

22.Jan.2018

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