DW | Plus de cinq ans que la crise anglophone dure et continue de susciter des préoccupations aussi bien dans le pays qu’en dehors de ses frontières. Ce mardi 2 mars, lors de la séance des questions au gouvernement, à l’Assemblée nationale française, le député indépendant de Haute-Garonne, Sébastien Nadot, …
Read More »Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail in historic ruling
Paris (CNN) A French court on Monday sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy to three years in prison for corruption and influence peddling, but suspended two years of the sentence. President from 2007 to 2012, he was found guilty of trying to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014 …
Read More »Bibamba, a Colorado company, makes chocolate bites from Cameroon cacao [+video]
Denver 7 | A husband and wife teamed up to grow cocoa beans and make chocolate bark snacks, starting at their farm in Cameroon and ending on shelves in Colorado.
Read More »Africa’s reliance on Chinese loans has experts concerned about more debt defaults
KEY POINTS The Covid-19 pandemic has posed difficulties for a host of sub-Saharan African countries that have borrowed substantially from China in recent years to fund major infrastructure projects. Verisk Maplecroft Research Associate Aleix Montana expressed concern about high debt levels in oil exporting countries such as Angola and the …
Read More »Cardinal Parolin tells Cameroon: For peace to be solid, it must be built on justice
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon | CRUX | Peace is the “fruit of love, which go beyond that which justice can bring,” according to Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who was speaking in Cameroon a day after visiting the country’s troubled Anglophone regions. Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State and chief aid to Pope Francis, …
Read More »Immigrating to Montreal from Douala put my privilege in perspective
CBC | The universal rights enjoyed here come at a high price in the Global South Privilege is a heavily discussed concept lately. The term has been used to emphasize each other’s version of “luck.” Privilege can be associated to class, ethnicity, gender or sex, and it is experienced by …
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