[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] Over 50 Anglophones were present at the Yaounde military court on Friday October 19 for hearing but most of the cases were adjourned because lawyers failed to show up after exertions at the Constitutional Council. Just one lawyer (Me-eh Walise Kum) turrned up for the defense Counsel as well as one (Mangoua Duclair) for the Gov’t bench.
Other cases were equally postponed because most of the Anglophone detainees did not have lawyers-close to twenty of them.
It was the 49th appearance for Ngalim Felix who is the longest -serving anglophone detainee since the crisis started. He was enjugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in Bamenda in 2016 and transferred to Yaounde where he has been detained. The gov’t bench has since failed to produce witnesses to testify against him since the case started. He has vowed not to return to court if he is not transferred and tried in Bamenda.
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Bamenda is the founding place and seat of the largest opposition political party in Cameroon, the Social Democratic Front (SDF), and the home of its leader, John Fru Ndi. There is a large military presence throughout the city. On 26 May 1990, a group of Bamenda elites launched the party in Ntarikon Bamenda, despite a heavy police presence. However, the launching did not end without casualty. Six civilians were killed.[citation needed]
Bamenda is also the birthplace of The Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), a group that has been asking for the restoration of the former British Southern Cameroons, a territory that covers the English-speaking provinces of North West and South West. The SCNC was born in Bamenda in 1994, after the All Anglophone Conference (AAC2) issued the Bamenda Declaration in which it had asked the government of President Paul Biya to respond to all anglophone grievances stated in the Buea Declaration of 1993, or face the wrath of the people of the Southern Cameroons. The Cameroon government failed to respond to the Bamenda Declaration and since then, the SCNC has categorically maintained that it now considers the restoration of the independence of the Southern Cameroons to be final and irrevocable.
[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] Some Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ians have staged a protest on the streets of Germany to express their dissatisfaction at the Constitutional Council rulings that dismissed all petitions filed in by opposition candidates with regards to the October 7 Presidential polls.
After dismissing all petitions filed by the opposition, the Constitutional Council is all set to proclaim Paul Biya on Monday, winner of the October 7 polls handing him the chance to extend his thirty-six-year stay in power with another even-year mandate.
This has not sat down well with some Cameroonians in the diaspora who have launched a series of protests against the Council.
The protests in Germany follows that staged by some Cameroonians in the United States of America on Friday to call for the Constitutional Council to cancel the eleection.
Journalducameroun.com reported on Thursday that security has been beefed at major junctions of the capital Yaounde ahead of the proclamation of results on Monday October 22.
It is the same situation in major cities in the country as security officials guard against any post election violence in the country.
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[PULSE.NG] No fewer than 254 surrendered and repented Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... sect members were reintegrated by the Federal Government.
Maj.-Gen. Bamidele Shafa, Coordinator, Operation Safe Corridor, announced the development during a town hall meeting and dialogue with Boko Haram affected communities on Saturday in Yola.
The meeting was organised by the Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative in collaboration with the Centre for Democracy and Development.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was designed for the reconciliation and reintegration of repented Boko Haram members from most affected three states, Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.
Shafa recalled that majority of the repented youths of Boko Haram were victims of circumstances.
"So far, the Operation Safe Corridor had treated no fewer than 254 repented Boko Haram members.
"Out of this number, 95 were already handed over to their respective states," Shafa said.
He explained that the remaining 157 reintegrated members would soon be dispatched, with Adamawa having three; Yobe seven and Borno 143.
He said that among the reintegrated were three foreign national from Chad Republic.
According to the coordinator, the operation Safe Corridor is in collaboration with PCNI and National Directorate for Employment where they given tools and other small business entrepreneur equipment for the reintegrated members.
The chairman also provided some funds to the ex-combatants for take off businesses after training in various skills acquisition.
Among the skills acquired by the ex-combatants include vocational, tailoring, carpentry and shoemaking.
He solicited the support of the affected communities in the reintegration of the youth.
Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, the chairman PCNI, said that the initiative was in collaboration with various government and non-governmental authorities towards rehabilitation, resettlement and reintegration in the region.
Danjuma, represented by Asma,u Joda, said the initiative had made gigantic efforts in assisting and restoring the economic development of the area.
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[An Nahar] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Saturday sacked two top aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... after conceding that critic Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its Istanbul consulate.
Deputy intelligence chief Ahmad al-Assiri and royal court media advisor Saud al-Qahtani were both part of Prince Mohammed's inner circle. Their ouster came alongside the arrests of 18 Saudi suspects and the dismissal of other intelligence officials.
Here are the profiles of the top aides:
AHMAD AL-ASSIRI
Assiri, said to be in his 60s, was a high-ranking advisor close to the royal court and often sat in during Prince Mohammed's closed-door meetings with visiting foreign dignitaries.
Prior to his promotion as the deputy head of general intelligence in 2017, Assiri served as the front man for the Saudi-led military alliance in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... which has been battling Houthis since March 2015.
Fluent in French, English and Arabic, the hard-charging official had developed a reputation for hassling journalists whose reports were not to his liking.
The Saudi daily al-Hayat once described the major general, who trained at the renowned French military school Saint-Cyr, as the "best known Saudi pilot in the world".
Last year Britannia apologised after an anti-war activist attempted to make a citizen's arrest of Assiri, over Saudi Arabia's role in the Yemen conflict, and threw an egg at him during a London visit.
Before his sacking on Saturday, the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported earlier this week that Saudi Arabia would assign blame for Khashoggi's disappearance on Assiri to help deflect blame from the powerful crown prince.
SAUD AL-QAHTANI
A key counsellor to Prince Mohammed, Qahtani was a media advisor in the royal court.
He organised interviews with the prince for foreign journalists and also served as the head of the "Centre for Studies and Media Affairs", a unit operating inside the royal court.
Saudi sources say Qahtani, said to be 40-years-old, steered online propaganda campaigns against the kingdom's adversaries such as Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Iran on social media.
With 1.3 million Twitter followers, the firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... official was known for aggressively targeting dissenters and rivals on the platform.
Writing for the Washington Post earlier this year, Khashoggi alleged Qahtani maintained a "blacklist" for writers critical of the kingdom and was known to intimidate them.
In an off-record interview to Newsweek magazine prior to his death -- which was published on Saturday -- Khashoggi described Qahtani and another Saudi top official Turki al-Sheikh as "thuggish".
"People fear them. You challenge them, you might end up in prison, and that has happened," he was quoted as saying.
He called Qahtani the "most important man in media", saying he controlled the government's PR activities.
A known loyalist to Saudi rulers, he tweeted last year: "I don't do anything from my own head without an order. I am an employee and executer to my king and my crown prince."
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[DAWN] A delegation of the Asia-Pacific Group (APG) has expressed dissatisfaction over Pakistain’s progress to comply with international best practices against money laundering and counter-terror financing.
Informed sources told Dawn that the APG delegation shared its final findings with the authorities of all relevant agencies, highlighting deficiencies in law, regulations and mechanisms and weaknesses of various institutions, and with this pace Pakistain was unlikely to get out of the grey list of the Gay Paree-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
The visiting delegation’s Friday meeting was the culmination of its long consultations with the ministries of interior, finance, foreign affairs and law, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistain (SECP), State Bank of Pakistain (SBP), National Counter-Terrorism Authority, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Federal Board of Revenue, National Accountability Bureau, Anti-Narcotics Force, Financial Monitoring Unit, Central Directorate of National Savings and provincial counter-terrorism departments.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s so-called War Council was completely destroyed in the Iraqi province of Diyala, a police brass hat said on Saturday.
"Islamic State suffered heavy losses in 2018 and most of its military commanders who were members of the so-called War Council were killed during military operations in Diyala," Faisal al-Abadi, chief of Diyala’s provincial police, told Iraqi website Baghdad Today.
"The Islamic State’s War Council was completely destroyed in Diyala," Abadi stressed.
He added that security measures were intensified in Diyala province in search of dormant IS krazed killers, who are hiding in remote areas.
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[Jpost] Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, has rejected an Egyptian request to halt the weekly demonstrations along the border between the Gazoo Strip and Israel, Paleostinian sources said on Saturday.
The sources said that Egyptian intelligence officials who met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... in Gazoo City last Thursday also demanded that the protesters stay at least 500 meters away from the border. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... Hamas also rejected this demand, the sources told the London-based al-Hayat newspaper.
On Friday, Paleostinians again demonstrated near the border, some of whom tried to cross the security fence. Sources in the Gazoo Strip said approximately 130 Paleostinians were maimed by gunfire and tear-gas inhalation.
Several Paleostinians who were at the demonstration commented that the number of demonstrators was smaller than in previous weeks. They also pointed out that the protesters dispersed earlier than usual, raising speculation about a possible secret deal between Hamas and Egypt.
"The Egyptians made it clear to Hamas that Israel was this time more serious than ever and would use unprecedented force if the violence continues along the border," said a Paleostinian political analyst in the Gazoo Strip. "Apparently, Hamas issued instructions to its supporters to keep a low profile."
Shortly before the protests began, the organizers of the "Great March of Return" (the name Paleostinians use to call the protests that began March 30) urged Paleostinians to "maintain the peaceful and popular" nature of the demonstrations.
Taher a-Nunu, a senior Hamas official in the Gazoo Strip, said the weekly demonstrations will continue, but only in a "peaceful and popular" manner. He denied that the Egypt had asked Hamas to stop the protests.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The protests were preceded by a demonstration against the Israeli occupation, organized by the area’s Druze community, who waved Syrian flags and held portraits of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... while standing on the border with Syria.
The Syrian population of the Golan Heights has gathered in the town of Majdal Shams to protest against Israeli policies in the occupied territories, Syria’s SANA news agency reported.
The protesters waved Syrian flags and burnt election ballots that had been distributed by local Israeli authorities.
Political activist and former prisoner Bashar al-Maqt, quoted by PressTV, slammed the elections that were organized by Tel Aviv as legally void and called on international organizations to pressure Israel to abandon its policies in the Golan Heights.
Bashar al-Maqt further vowed to spread the protests to other Syrian communities in the Golan Heights.
The protests in Majdal Shams took place two weeks after a demonstration by the Golan’s Druze community, who waved Syrian flags and set up portraits of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad along the border with the Arab Republic.
The Golan Heights was seized by Israel from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967.
For a long time the territory was governed by an Israeli military administration, but in 1981 Tel Aviv extended the jurisdiction of its laws to the territory and established a civil administration.
The move was condemned by the UN Security Council as illegal from the point of international law.
Israel justified its move as aimed at safeguarding its borders from aggressive military acts.
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and after the media and propaganda arms had their B-Roll shots, they all went home
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The Druze are natural allies with Assad's Alawite faction against the Sunni majority which wants both groups eliminated... Photo-Op and a boring, predictable one at that.
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The Syrian population of the Golan Heights has gathered in the town of Majdal Shams
It sounds like they’re Syrian Druze demonstrating loyalty to President Assad the Younger rather than Israeli Druze protesting against their own rulers, BrujoTejano. Nowadays the Druze work very hard to be known as good subjects of whatever government they find themselves under.
[AnNahar] Russia's defence minister said Saturday that almost 88,000 rebels had been killed in Syria in the three years since Moscow's intervention to back government forces.
"Over the course of the operation, a total of more than 87,500 rebels have been eliminated, 1,411 settlements have been liberated and more than 95 percent of Syria's territory," Shoigu was quoted as saying at a forum in Singapore in a ministry statement.
"Most of the rebels have been liquidated," Shoigu said.
Britannia-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says close to 365,000 people have been killed during the seven-year civil war.
Russia launched strikes in support of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's regime in September 2015.
Russian air forces have carried out more than 40,000 bombing missions, hitting about 120,000 targets of "terrorist" infrastructure, Shoigu said.
The defence minister said that "Syrian armed forces currently control territory where more than 90 percent of the population lives."
A report issued by the Syrian Network for Human Rights revealed that the Russian troops killed 6187 civilians, including: 1771 children, since its military intervention in Syria.
The SNHR also highlighted the Russian technique followed in its attacks on the opposition-held areas, which is based on conducting two consecutive attacks on the same area, in order to kill as many people as possible.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
