November 2025

Kilimanjaro News Network The Voice of Africa UMOJA NA MAENDELEO BANJUL/DOUALA – A routine press release from The Gambia’s government has ignited a firestorm in Central and West African diplomacy. The confirmation that the small West African nation has granted temporary humanitarian asylum to Issa Tchiroma, a Cameroonian opposition figure who claims victory in the […]

Kilimanjaro News Network The Voice of Africa UMOJA NA MAENDELEO BANJUL/DOUALA – A routine press release from The Gambia’s government has ignited a firestorm in Central and West African diplomacy. The confirmation that the small West African nation has granted temporary humanitarian asylum to Issa Tchiroma, a Cameroonian opposition figure who claims victory in the

Kilimanjaro News Network The Voice of Africa UMOJA NA MAENDELEO The Empty Chair Doctrine: Why the Global South No Longer Bows. JOHANNESBURG: Let them boycott. Let them posture from across the oceans. The resounding success of the G-20 summit here in South Africa, under the theme of “Solidarity, Equality, and Sustainability,” has delivered a message

Kilimanjaro News Network The Voice of Africa UMOJA NA MAENDELEO The Empty Chair Doctrine: Why the Global South No Longer Bows. JOHANNESBURG: Let them boycott. Let them posture from across the oceans. The resounding success of the G-20 summit here in South Africa, under the theme of “Solidarity, Equality, and Sustainability,” has delivered a message

Kilimanjaro News Network The Voice of Africa UMOJA NA MAENDELEO The recent, glorious pushback in Bamenda was a moment of divine intervention. When the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop José Avelino Bettencourt, invoked the title “President of Cameroon” with the shamelessness that only a diplomat detached from human suffering could muster during the rededication of St. Joseph’s

Kilimanjaro News Network The Voice of Africa UMOJA NA MAENDELEO The recent, glorious pushback in Bamenda was a moment of divine intervention. When the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop José Avelino Bettencourt, invoked the title “President of Cameroon” with the shamelessness that only a diplomat detached from human suffering could muster during the rededication of St. Joseph’s

The Unforgivable Silence: How Cameroon’s Church Became a Pillar of Oppression There is a special kind of betrayal that is worse than the crime itself. It is the betrayal by those who are meant to be a moral compass, a refuge for the oppressed, and a voice for the voiceless. In Cameroon, while the political

The Unforgivable Silence: How Cameroon’s Church Became a Pillar of Oppression There is a special kind of betrayal that is worse than the crime itself. It is the betrayal by those who are meant to be a moral compass, a refuge for the oppressed, and a voice for the voiceless. In Cameroon, while the political

Kilimanjaro News Network The Voice of Africa UMOJA NA MAENDELEO JOHANNESBURG: The story broke not with a bang, but with a whisper. A plane, we are told, carrying 150 Palestinians, mostly women, children, and the injured, miraculously escaped the world’s most watched and war-torn airspace to find refuge in South Africa. On the surface, it

Kilimanjaro News Network The Voice of Africa UMOJA NA MAENDELEO JOHANNESBURG: The story broke not with a bang, but with a whisper. A plane, we are told, carrying 150 Palestinians, mostly women, children, and the injured, miraculously escaped the world’s most watched and war-torn airspace to find refuge in South Africa. On the surface, it