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– NEWS – Cameroon candidate Kamto declares victory: Cameroon opposition candidate Maurice Kamto declared victory in Sunday’s presidential election, but incumbent President Paul Biya’s party dismissed his claim as fantasy and accused him of breaking the law by making it. The election, which was marred by low turnout and isolated incidents of unrest in separatist […]

– NEWS – Presidential election in Cameroon: Polls have closed in Cameroon in a presidential election that has been disrupted by a number of violent incidents in English-speaking parts of the country, leaving at least three people dead. Cameroonians voted on Sunday in the key presidential election which could end or extend the 36-year rule

– NEWS – Curfew in Cameroon: Authorities in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon on Sunday imposed a 48-hour curfew meant to restrict movement over what it terms „threats from separatists“. The measure is valid until Monday and has to do with the symbolic independence proclamation of the English-speaking regions a year ago. October 1st marks

– NEWS – Libyan government asks UN for help: The Libyan government has asked the United Nations for help in the face of continuing violence in Libya’s capital Tripoli. At least 115 people have been killed and 383 others injured during a month of fighting between rival militant groups in Tripoli. In order to protect

– NEWS – Merkel and Kurz want more cooperation with Africa: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz want to better coordinate their Africa policies to address root causes of migration and flight. Kurz invited the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, to an Africa summit in Vienna in December. The summit will center

– NEWS – Donor conference ends with billion-dollar aid for Chad region: At a two-day meeting of donor countries in Berlin, participants promised a total of about two billion dollars in aid to the African crisis region. More than 50 delegations and high-level representatives of the UN took part in the work of the two-day

– NEWS – Congo’s Kabila will not stand for re-election: Joseph Kabila, who took over the Democratic Republic of Congo at age 29 after the assassination of his father in 2001, announced on Wednesday he would not stand for re-election, raising hopes the country might carry out a peaceful transition of power for the first

– NEWS – South Sudan factions sign peace deal: South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir announced a wide-ranging deal to incorporate warring factions into the government on Sunday, following a meeting with his arch-rival Riek Machar and an alliance of opposition leaders. Most notably, the deal would see rebel leader Machar reclaim the office of vice-president,

– NEWS – Refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea: The Spanish coast guard has rescued over 1,400 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea over the past two days. As a crackdown by Libyan authorities has made it more difficult for migrants to reach Italy, many are attempting the trip from Algeria and Morocco into Spain. Correspondingly,

– NEWS – Human Rights Watch warns of violence in Cameroon: Violent tensions between Cameroon’s government and Anglophone separatists have forced more than 180,000 people from their homes since December 2017, Human Rights Watch said in a new report that blamed both sides for grave abuses against civilians. Warnings about Cameroon’s crisis are growing as