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French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Monday refuted the idea that Operation Barkhane was a failure, in response to an open letter from around a hundred senators addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron. “Today Niger, yesterday Mali, the Central African Republic, Burkina Faso rejected France, French forces, French companies”, …

The remains of five government workers who were kidnapped in Cameroon’s restive South-West region in 2021 have been exhumed in a remote village, after a former separatist fighter who recently surrendered to authorities revealed that they had been killed and buried. He then led security forces to the burial site …

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have accused Rwandan soldiers of crossing into its territory. The Congolese army issued a statement describing the alleged incursion into North Kivu province as an intolerable provocation. It said the Rwandan soldiers had been forced back across the border. There has been no …

Flights arriving or departing from Libreville, the Gabonese capital, have been canceled since Monday and those who were in the air have been diverted to neighboring countries. Léon-Mba international airport has been paralyzed since last Monday due to a giant power outage. According to the airport’s officials “no plane has …

Chad is making great strides in terms of surgery as a medical team from the Mother and Child Hospital successfully performed an operation on Siamese twins. “We’ve dealt with fake Siamese twins before. That is, one of the Siamese twins is not complete and lives at the expense of the …

Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba has announced that he will be a candidate in the next presidential election, scheduled for August 26. President Bongo who in power for nearly 14 years, announced his candidacy for the next presidential election. “I am officially announcing today that I am a candidate in …

French world champion Kylian Mbappé is on vacation in Cameroon to visit the island of Jebalè, his father’s village. While his future with PSG has yet to be fully clarified, Kylian Mbappé is currently treating himself to some vacation time. “The PSG star has been in his ancestral homeland for …

Russian paramilitary group, Wagner must continue its activities in Mali and the Central African Republic, despite its failed rebellion in Russia, the head of Russian diplomacy said. The head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov also affirms that the rebellion of this organization in Russia will not affect the relationship between …

Nigeria’s Burna Boy has been acclaimed as the best international act at last night’s BET awards in Los Angeles making it the fourth time he has won the award. This time he was up against the likes of South Africa’s Ko and Britain’s Stormzy and Central Cee. Cameroon’s Libianca won …

Cameroonian pastor Orock Henry Betang has urged the famous Nigerian singer Davido to sell his car, a Mercedes Maybach Virgil Abloh 2023, freshly purchased for 394 million naira. “God has blessed the singer, but the devil intends to bring him down, through the Mercedes-Maybach 2023,” according to the Pastor. The …