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According to a US diplomatic cable, Louis Paul Motaze, who is occupying for the second time, the post of Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Development (first from 2007 to 2011 and since October 2, 2015) and presented by some media houses in Cameroon as a nephew to the head of state allegedly made disparaging statements against the Biya regime, in the presence of Janet Garvey former US ambassador to Cameroon. He reportedly described President Biya's attempt at creating a national airline "Lion Air" as voodou economy. He also did criticised the slowness of major infrastructure projects in the country including the Kribi port and the poor handling of the Cameroonian economy.

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Ngwa Bertrand

10.Feb.2016

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Turkey has summoned the US envoy to the country over Washington’s assertion that Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) is not a terrorist group. Tuesday’s move by the Turkish foreign ministry followed remarks by US State Department spokesman John Kirby, ruling out the organization as a terrorist one. Ankara considers the group as an ally of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which it has been battling for months, but to the US, PYD is seen as part of the fight against the Daesh terrorists wreaking havoc in the region. Responding to a question regarding the difference between the two states, Kirby said Monday that "This is not a new concern, as I said, that the Turks have proffered. And we don't, as you know, recognize the PYD as a terrorist organization." 

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has previously hinted that military operations may be launched in Syria to tackle the YPG. Ankara has used the chance to fight Takfiris in neighboring Iraq to also attack PKK militants, who have fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s. Ankara has reportedly provided support for militants operating inside Syria along with some other US allies, namely Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The Daesh Takfiri, who have been wreaking havoc in Syria Iraq and miles further in Libya, were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government.

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10.Feb.2016

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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says European countries have no independent will in the face of the United States. “This criticism applies to Europe that contrary to the past, it has no independent will vis-à-vis the US,” the Leader said in a meeting with visiting Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Tehran on Monday.He added that the European countries should address this weak point.

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08.Feb.2016

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Anisa Ahmed Makhlouf, the mother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has passed away at the age of 86. Makhlouf, the wife of late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, died after years of illness at a hospital in the capital Damascus on Saturday. She was born in the western Syrian city of Latakia and married the former president in 1957. The country’s presidential office issued a statement confirming her death and thanking people for their condolences. Bashar was Makhlouf's third child out of the five, including Bushra, Bassel, Majed and Maher.

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07.Feb.2016

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Mariam Sankara, widow of Thomas Sankara, former Burkina Faso president assassinated on 15 October 1987 was in Cameroon recently on the invitation of Prof Jean Emmanuel Pondi.Madam Sankara participated at a book launch in the University of Yaoundé I, and the University of Douala written in honor of her late husband. The book, "Thomas Sankara and the emergence of Africa in the twenty-first Century by Prof. Jean -Emmanuel Pondi, was also prefaced by Madam Sankara.

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Ngwa Bertrand

06.Feb.2016

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University of Yaounde II, Soa has been ranked first in Cameroon for professional training. A Non-Governmental Organisation which grouped 79 experts to classify over 200 institutions made the announcement in Yaounde.

The Minister of Higher Education, Prof Jacques Fame Ndongo hailed the University of Yaounde II and indicated that the classification will encourage other universities to work even harder. According to the classification, the University of Dschang came second and is followed by the University of Buea in the third position.

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04.Feb.2016

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