06 August 2025
1.Cameroon- Yaoundé
Constitutional council's decision leaves Kamto out of presidential race
Cameroon’s Constitutional Council has definitively barred opposition leader Maurice Kamto from October’s presidential election, rejecting his appeal as "lacking legal justification" in a ruling delivered yesterday.
The decision upholds an earlier disqualification by the Electoral Council, dealing a fatal blow to Kamto’s bid under the Manidem party banner. opposition leader’s disqualification upheld as analysts warn of institutionalized exclusion
- Mozambique – Cabo Delgado
Nearly 60,000 people have fled Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province in two weeks, a United Nations agency has said, amid a years-long rebellion by fighters affiliated with ISIL (ISIS).
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement yesterday that escalating attacks that began on July 20 had displaced 57,034 people, or 13,343 families.
- South Afrika – Tshwane
DIRCO and Unisa will host a seminar today “The UN at 80: The post-World War II peace architecture and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”.
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) and the University of South Africa (UNISA) will host a public seminar on Wednesday, 06 August 2025, under the theme: “The United Nations (UN) at 80: The post-World War II peace architecture and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”.
- In our historical archives, it was on this day 6 August 1960 when the United Nations (UN) late Secretary General, Mr. Dag Hammarskjöld, asked the UN Security Council to lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Katanga without interfering with Congo’s internal affairs.
It was also on this day 6 August 1962 when Jamaica was liberated or independent from the British colonial rule.