Inside Cameroon

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria’s government on Monday summoned a representative of the the U.S. ambassador to explain reported remarks by President Donald Trump that immigrants from Africa and Haiti come from “shithole countries”, the foreign ministry said.

Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama “sought clarification on the veracity or otherwise of the substance of the remarks, stressing that if they were true, they were deeply hurtful, offensive and unacceptable”, the ministry said in a statement.

Trump reportedly made the remarks at a private meeting with lawmakers on immigration on Thursday. A U.S. senator who attended the gathering said the president used “vile, vulgar” language, including repeatedly using the word “shithole” when speaking about African countries.

The Nigerian foreign ministry statement noted the “very warm and cordial relations that presently exist” between Nigeria and the U.S.

The United States, represented by Deputy Chief of Mission David J. Young as the ambassador was not in Nigeria, said there were contradictory accounts as to whether the remarks were made, the statement said.

In a separate statement, a U.S. embassy spokesman said Young “reiterated the excellent relations that exist between the United States and Nigeria and they discussed future cooperation between the two countries”.

The U.S. president on Friday denied using such derogatory language. But he has been widely condemned in many African countries and by international rights organisations. African Union countries demanded an apology on Friday.

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Rita Akana

16.Jan.2018

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The elite of Manyu Division led by the Minister in Charge of Special Duties at the Presidency of the Republic, Victor Arrey Mengot have laid down a plan to physically eliminate North Westerners who have acquired property and are resident in Manyu.

Mengot, Tabetando, Hon. Mrs Okpu and others have resolved to also destroy the properties acquired by North Westerners in Upper Banyang subdivision in several acres of plantations in revenge for what they call a "graffi" war exported to Manyu to discredit and bar them from occupying juicy positions in Yaounde.

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16.Jan.2018

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The giant projects previewed for 2020 are geared towards fast tracking development and realizing the 2035 emergence dream. This declaration was done by the Minister of Planning and Regional Development, Mr. Paul Motaze.

It was during an outing aimed improving good governance and transparency, aimed at improving government way of doing business. Most of the giant projects which stand as the pivot for the economic transformation agenda are to be piloted by the 2018 Financial Budget .

He therefore called on economic operators to take responsibility and ensue that they pay taxes to the state and freely. Mr. Paul Motaze said these second generation projects shall crate jobs and fight unemployment as well as preempt the hazardous illicit migration trends, that have witnessed lots of Africans die in the sands of the sahara and the belly of the Mediterranean sea.

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16.Jan.2018

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Boston Massachusetts resident and US citizen of Ambazonian decent, Fabian Fomuki who was abducted by soldiers loyal to Cameroon's veteran dictator Biya has been released and escorted to Nsimalemn International Airport today Monday, 15.01.2018, after spending over 7 months without charges in Biya's dungeons in Yaounde.

Fabian left the US for Cameroon early June of 2017, on the 20th of that same month, he went to Douala to negotiate the clearance of his container from the Doaula seaport, later that evening, upon arriving his hotel, he was approached by plain cloth officers and bundled up to an unkown location.

It took over a week after his abduction for the family and well wishers, with intervention of the US embassy in Yaounde to locate his whereabouts.He was held in captivity and denied access to lawyers and his family.Trumped up charges were levied against him for inciting terror against the state, after the US embassy pressed for a fair and transparent accusation if any.

Fabian had been a critic of the brutal suppression of civil liberties in the Anglophone regions by the Biya regime. In September of 2017, four US congressmen wrote to Secretary of State Tillerson, calling on the USA government to press Paul Biya for his release.

The Biya's regime had been put under immense international pressure to release all US citizens in its detention centerS.

Fabian is back on his way to the US.He will be departing this afternoon onboard an Ethiopian Airlines to meet his family back after the ordeal.

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15.Jan.2018

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The ghastly accident that occured yesterday in the cliffs of Dschang involved a clandestine 70 seater bus that lost its brakes before leaving the road to end up in a valley on the way from Dschang in the Western region to Douala.

Many passengers sustained life threatening injuries while 21 of them lost their lives at the spot.The wounded were transported to the surrounding hospitals in the area, the administrative authorities and the gendarmes arrived lateron at the scene of the tragedy and were able to identify some victims as listed below:

1) Tsague Sabine, 45 years old

2) Dongmo Florence

3) Djiabeng Laurence Solange, April 7th 1959

4) Youms Tala Jerry Landry, June 19th 1983

5) Donfack Aristide Joel, December 28, 1975

6) Ngoune Berthim, born September 05, 1972

7) Tchuitie Wandji Alexis, born in 1963

8) Kezock Valerie, 42 years old

9) Sobze Albert, 50 years old

10) Azakoh Steve Valdes, February 28th 1994

11) Towa William Raphael,

12) Kuazoh Marie, 44 years old

13) Lando Collins, born January 09, 1980

14) Sopdjeu Albert

15) Djoumessi Oumbe Marie Pierre

16) Djoumessi Azazangue Florette, born in 1977

17) Donjo Ngumfack Clarisse, 42 years old 1

8) Mbome Lycel Marcel Célestin, 51 years old

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15.Jan.2018

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MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia’s ruling Unity Party has expelled the country’s outgoing president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is accused by party leaders of meddling in last year’s presidential elections in which its candidate suffered a bruising defeat.

Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has been in power for 12 years, denies the party’s allegations that she held inappropriate private meetings with election magistrates before the Oct. 10 vote.

Four other party officials were also expelled, the party said in a statement distributed on Sunday.

“The behaviour of the expelled persons ... constitutes sabotage and undermined the existence of the party,” said the statement announcing the decision, which was taken by the party’s executive committee late on Saturday.

A senior official in Johnson Sirleaf’s office declined to comment on the decision. The president and other officials were not immediately available on Sunday.

Former soccer star George Weah defeated the Unity Party’s Joseph Boakai in a landslide, marking the first democratic transition of power in Liberia - a nation founded by freed American slaves - in over 70 years.

Johnson Sirleaf was not allowed to run for re-election due to constitutional term limits. A split between her and Boakai burst into the open during the campaign. [L8N1N562G]

The statement said Johnson Sirleaf and the other members had violated rules, including a requirement to support all Unity Party candidates in elections.

Weah will be sworn in later this month.

Johnson Sirleaf won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for helping secure peace after civil wars from 1989-2003. But her critics say she has not done enough to ease rampant poverty - a task complicated by a 2014-16 Ebola epidemic that killed thousands of Liberians.

Her administration has also faced repeated allegations of corruption and nepotism. She denies the accusations, but they resonated with many of the voters who rallied to Weah’s call for change.

Weah, who in 1995 became the only African to win FIFA World Player of the Year, now faces sky-high expectations from his base of young supporters. Others, who see him as lacking the experience and knowledge for the job, remain sceptical.

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15.Jan.2018

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