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Cameroonian President Paul Biya has begun a two-day state visit to Nigeria . President Biya, is accompanied by his wife, Chantal, and senior Cameroon government officials, Both leaders and their officials are expected to hold talk on issues of common interest to Nigeria and Cameroon, including ongoing bilateral and regional cooperation against terrorism, violent extremism and cross-border crimes.
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Rescue workers pulled out a one-year-old girl from the rubble of a building in Kenya's capital on Tuesday morning more than 72 hours after it collapsed following heavy rain, the Kenya Red Cross said.
"She was rescued and was severely dehydrated. She is currently receiving medical attention at Kenyatta National Hospital," Red Cross spokeswoman Arnolda Shiundu told Reuters, adding that the girl was rescued at about 4 a.m.
Officials have put the death toll so far at 21. Aid workers had said on Monday that the chances of finding more survivors was unlikely after the building fell down on Friday night.
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Liberia’s main opposition party, Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), is denying that there is an arrest warrant in the United States for its leader and presumptive candidate for president, George Oppong Weah.
The Liberian online publication FrontPageAfrica reported that a court in the U.S. State of Georgia issued a warrant for Weah’s arrest for child abandonment and failure to pay child support.
Court withdraws the arrest warrant
Mulbah Morlue, vice chairman for operations and mobilization for the CDC, says that warrant is no longer in effect.
“The speculation that there is an arrest warrant for Mr. Weah quoting court sources is just not true. While it is true that a court document published on the 18th talked about the warrant, but also the same court issued another document that neutralizes or withdraws that court file of 18 April 2016. So as we speak, there is no arrest warrant for Mr. Weah,” he said.
Morlue said the case in the Georgia court is politically motivated in order to diminish Weah’s popularity ahead of the election.
There was a child support petition filed
Kenna White, the clerk of the court for criminal hearings of the Newton County Court in Covington, Georgia, confirmed to VOA that a petition was filed by Meapeh Gono Glay, the mother of Weah’s 10-year-old daughter. The court official also confirmed that a hearing has been scheduled on May 11, 2016. According to one account in FrontPageAfrica, the court had ordered “the father shall pay child support in the amount of $1,000.00 per month commencing May 1st, 2016 to be paid on the 1st day of each month, and continuing every month thereafter until further order of the court”.
A document shown to VOA shows that on February 25, 2016 one Laureen J. Mullins, Weah’s attorney, paid $162 to the court, “authorized by my client for the needs of the minor child”.
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At the invitation of His Excellency Mr. Muhammadu BUHARI, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Paul Biya, President of the Republic of Cameroon, will pay a state visit to Nigeria on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday, May 4, 2016, with His Wife, madame Chantal Biya according to a statement from the Presidency of the Republic.
This visit comes 10 months after President Muhammadu Buhari was in Cameroon on a working visit (from 29 to 30 July 2015 in Yaoundé) to discuss ways for both countries to jointly fight the Boko Haram insurgents
The State visit of the Cameroonian President will be its seventh ever since Biya came to power in 1982.The visit will have as its top agenda strategies to defeat the remaining rampnants of Boko Haram militants also discuss other issues that will boost the two countries ‘brotherly relationship’.
Relations between Cameroon and its Economic giant neighbors has gone through many upheavals, such as the dispute over the Bakassi peninsula which was recognized Internationally as a territory of Cameroon after a long legal battle. However, the two countries have begun to normalize relations in many areas of interest.
Nigeria buys 14.4% of Cameron’s export, according to the 2012 financial year report on the economic situation of the country. On the other hand 22.6% of the Cameroon’s imports come from Nigeria
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DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo’s rumba king Papa Wemba was posthumously awarded one of his country’s highest honours on Monday, a week after he collapsed on stage and died aged 66.
At a ceremony in the national parliament in Kinshasa, where Papa Wemba’s body lay in state, Congo’s President Joseph Kabila made the singer a grand officer of the Order of National Heros Kabila-Lumumba for “the merits, the loyal and eminent services rendered to the Congolese nation”.
Papa Wemba collapsed while performing at a festival in Ivory Coast on April 24. The flamboyant musician, who led the Kinshasa music scene for four decades, died before reaching hospital.
An enormous red hat, modelled on the one the renowned sharp dresser was wearing at the time of his death, served as the roof of the chapel erected to house his coffin inside parliament.
A life-sized effigy of the singer, dressed as he during his last concert, stood behind it.
“Papa Wemba, the Congo orphaned,” read a giant banner at the entrance to the building, where the funeral procession arrived early in the morning to be welcomed by the city governor and the military band of the Republican Guard.
A Roman Catholic priest accompanied the coffin, which was carried by eight men in black and draped in the national flag.
“This is great suffering and sadness,” said Biby Krubwa, who starred alongside Papa Wemba in a 1988 film, ‘La Vie est Belle’ (‘Life is Rosy’) about an aspiring singer who comes to Kinshasa. “Papa Wemba is a baobab that has fallen.”
Jean Misha Mulongo, a childhood friend of Papa Wemba who flew in from his home in the US city of Atlanta for his funeral, hailed the musician as a man of the people who “came to earth to give pleasure”.
A father of six, Papa Wemba helped to pioneer a blend of Congolese popular music with electric rock during the 1980s, when an interest in world music stirred in Western countries.
He is due to be laid to rest in a cemetery on the outskirts of Kinshasa on Wednesday.
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Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Monday in the Far North region of Cameroon while trying to carry out attacks for Islamist militant group Boko Haram, local officials said.
The girls stuffed with bombs blew themselves up in the Cameroonian town of Kolofata ( Far North Region) with no casualties.
After a few weeks of relative calm from suicide bombings and other criminal incursions perpetrated by the Islamist sect Boko Haram ,the group seems to be back to action with today's attempted attack
Last Thursday, for example , nine alleged members of the jihadist movement killed in Limani , near Kolofata , while two Cameroonian hostages, kidnapped a few days before , were rescued in Barkari , the Nigerian side of the border, thanks to the intervention of a vigilance committee setup by locals .
However , according to authorities, there has been a slowdown of terrorist acts from Boko Haram as concerted action from armies of Cameroon and Nigeria , supported by the Joint Multinational Force (FMM) , launched early April "Operation tentacle " had pounded heavily on the stronghold of the insurgent group,killing many and arresting dozens of its fighters
Boko Haram has waged a seven-year campaign for an Islamist state in northeastern Nigeria. Neighboring countries joined an offensive against the group last year and the conflict spilled across their borders, displacing tens of thousands of people.
Cameroon is also in an 8,700-strong regional force led by Nigeria against the militants.
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