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Cameroon  will looking forward  for another Africa Cup of Nations final appearance when they clash today evening with thw Black Stars of Ghana  at the Stade de Franceville, Franceville Gabon.

The Black Stars lost in the last finals in Equatorial Guinea to Ivory Coast on penalty kicks and will look to bury the ghosts of Malabo against a defying Indomitable Lions. Cameroon have surprised many by making it all the way to the semi-finals. A new look Indomitable Lions squad. barely scrapped through the group stage but seem to get better with each passing game.

Two draws and a win in the group stage meant they came second in Group A behind Burkina Faso to set up a clash with the Teranga Lions.The Lions came up big against pre-tournament favourites Senegal in the quarter-finals. Led by an inspired Fabrice Ondoa, Cameroon's Goal Keeper.Cameroon haven’t had AFCON success since 2002 when they won the trophy in Mali while Ghana, who just like the West Africans, have four AFCON titles, haven’t lifted the trophy since 1982 when they won it in Libya.

Both sides will be hungry to make it to the final again and get their hands on a fifth crown on 5th February at the Stade de l'Amitié in Libreville.The big question now is who will be the winner tonight?

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Rita Akana

02.Feb.2017

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Congo's main opposition leader, Etienne Tshisekedi, one of the country's most important advocates of democracy, has died in Brussels aged 84, diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.

Tshisekedi stood up to dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who for decades ruled the country, then known as Zaire, before being overthrown by Rwanda, Uganda and other forces. He was also the most prominent civilian opponent of Laurent Kabila, who took power in 1997, and his son, President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled since 2001.

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Rita Akana

01.Feb.2017

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Rita Akana

01.Feb.2017

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Anglophone Consortium leader has today , Wednesday, 2017 released a new video from his hideout in a western embassy in Yaounde-Cameroon. In the video, he warmly appreciates his host, and also calls for maximum resistance in this Godly struggle for the restoration of Southern Cameroons."Continue to abide by the ghost towns that we have decreed." Bring down the ghosts from heaven on Mondays and Tuesdays, he calls.

Tassang Wilfred, who had been a very active member of the Anglophone Consortium was targeted for arrest, he sneaked pass security to take  asylum in a western Embassy in Yaoundé .

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Rita Akana

01.Feb.2017

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Cameroon is fast becoming a state of terror to English Speaking Cameroonians.Unconfirmed reports talk of a mass grave in Soa, a locality around the Yaounde neighborhood where citizens arrested in the English speaking minority regions are reportedly being killed and buried.

The tense situation in the country does not allow journalists nor human rights activists to carry out independent investigations to verify this information. Considering the fact that government has in the past used such methods, and especially looking at the recent brutal killings, maiming, and torture inflicted on denizens of west Cameroon, it is very likely that those who have died either in detention or during their arrest must have been buried somewhere in the Centre province. The Biya regime has decided to use every means possible to crackdown on Anglophones Cameroonians whom they now regard as 'les ennemis de l'etat'.

Fear is gripping even those who support the CPDM party because the regime does no  longer trust its citizens from West Cameroon.  Anglophones were arrested in Yaounde(Damas) last week, while some magistrates were arrested in the South West regions. These arbitrary arrests are happening almost on a daily bases now in Southern Cameroon. Citizens have no choice than to contact media outlets or bloggers(for those who still have access to internet) to report cases of arrests and disappearances. The case of Awah Vanessa  a University of Bamenda student arrested last week for wearing a T-shirt bearing the name of Hon. Wirba, and that of Armstrong Fombi also arrested in Bamenda were reported to some media outlets. Some citizens have been arrested in remote areas like Akwaya, Ekona, Mbengwi, Jakiri, Wum, Batibo, Muyuka etc and deported to Yaounde or those who are lucky, released after being tortured for some days.

The De facto state of emergency in the South West and North West provinces makes it difficult for volunteer lawyers who are trying to investigate these arbitrary arrests. 'Its now a lawless state' said one lawyer in Mbengwi who claimed some youths were deported to Bamenda last week. The government will never give an accurate account on the number of those arrested or killed, so it is imperative for amnesty International to independently investigate these claims and bring out a list of all those in detention and those who have disappeared. If the regime can intimate renowned journalists and lawyers, then it is obvious they are ready to go the extra mile to eliminate every one who is supporting Southern Cameroonians in their struggle for self determination. Today, in a press conference in Yaoundé, the terror regime detained and confiscated the equipment of Mr. Randy Joe(BBC Journalist)

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Rita Akana

01.Feb.2017

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One staff of the United Nations, two Nigerians and a Cameroonian, working to implement the International Court of Justice ruling on Bakassi, were killed this morning by armed men, a Cameroonian newspaper has reported.

L’Oeil du Sahel said the UN staff, the two Nigerians and the Cameroonian were working on the implementation of the ruling of the International Court of Justice, which handed the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula over to Cameroon.

They were shot dead along the Nigeria-Cameroon borders, the newspaper said.

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Simon Ateba

01.Feb.2017

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