Month: September 2013

Multiparty democracy swept across Africa in the early 1990s, as single-party states and authoritarian leaders bowed to pressure from outside and within.

By HOLBROOK MOHR Associated Press A Louisiana sheriff says the wife of a man accused of killing a pastor filed a rape complaint against the preacher two days before he was killed.

While some candidates running for seats in Cameroon’s National Assembly [fr] and municipal council are doing their best sway voters with sweeping but vague promises typical of elections, others are trying to buy it with money and gifts, such as beer an…

[Africa Top Sports]Convened by Coach Volker Finke while he announced his international retirement just after the qualification of the Indomitable Lions against Libya (1-0), will Samuel Eto’o change his mind and rejoin the national squad?

[Cameroon Tribune]”As part of measures put in place by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (CONAC) to combat corruption and ensure transparency in the Legislative and Municipal elections of Monday, September 30, 2013, a Special Unit has been set up…

[Cameroon Tribune]The party sails in calm water since there aren’t any adversaries in the zone.

[Cameroon Tribune]The Director General of Elections invites the international observes accredited as well as officials of the national organisations authorised to deploy observers, on the occasion of the election of members of parliament and municipal …

A team of researchers led by Michel De Waard, Inserm Research Director at the Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences , has discovered that an African medicinal plant produces large quantities of molecules with analgesic properties.