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Cameroon has a new Prime Minister in the person of Dion Ngute Joseph. His appointment was announced by a decree signed by Head of State, President Paul Biya on Friday. The Prime Minister according to the governance structure is the Head of Government. Dion Ngute replaces long serving Philemon Yang in the role. Born in March 1954, the last known government post he held was as Minister in the Presidency between 2 March 2018 – January 4, 2019 when he was announced Premier. At at 2017, he was Cameroon Minister Delegate to the Minister of External Relations in charge of cooperation with the Commonwealth, and represented government at Oslo humanitarian summit on Nigeria and the Lake Chad region. He also served as director at the Advanced School of Administration & Magistracy ENAM (1991-97). His appointment is part of a wider reshuffle by Biya who won a seventh term in office in October last 2018. — President Paul BIYA (@PR_Paul_BIYA)   Instructively, he hails from one of Cameroon’s resti

The African Union has called upon invested parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo to respect the results of the presidential election, as tensions grow over delays in the counting process. The elections will determine who succeeds President Joseph Kabila, who has been at the helm of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest country for nearly 18 years. Moussa Faki, head of the AU Commission, met on Friday with the head of the AU observer mission, Dioncounda Traore, a former president of Mali, at the bloc’s headquarters in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Respect of the election results is crucial. “Respect of the election results is crucial,” Faki said in a brief message posted on Twitter. The 80-strong AU observer team had already warned on Wednesday that they expected the official results to be “in line with the vote” of the people. The Congolese election commission said logistical problems may force it to postpone publication of provisional results from Sunday’s vote, which also included

Experts discovered over 35 million US voter records for sale in a hacking forum. Millions of voter records are available for sale on the Dark Web, experts from Anomali and Intel 471 discovered 35 million US voter records for sale in a hacking forum. Researchers have analyzed a sample of voter records and determined the data to be valid with a high degree of confidence. Records in the voter registration database include personal and voting history information of US residents. “Certain states require the seller to personally travel to locations in-state to receive the updated voter information.” reads the post published by Anomali. “This suggests the information disclosure is not necessarily a technical compromise but rather a likely targeted campaign by a threat actor redistributing possibly legitimately obtained voter data for malicious purposes on a cybercrime forum,”  The seller only provided the number of records for the lists of voters belonging to three states asking for prices be

A plane carrying 139 people skidded off the runway when it landed Thursday at an international airport in Uganda, the airline and airport officials said. The Ethiopian Airlines flight was landing at Entebbe airport at 12:41 a.m. Thursday (4:41 p.m. ET Wednesday) when it "overshot the runway," according to airport authorities. All passengers and crew on the Boeing 737-800 plane disembarked safely, but the incident affected inbound international flights earlier in the day, Uganda's Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) said in a statement. The plane was coming from Ethiopia's busy capital, Addis Ababa. UCAA later posted on Twitter that the aircraft had been removed and normal operations had resumed at the only international airport in the East African country. An image provided by airport authorities showed the aircraft on a grassy area. Ethiopian Airlines said there was no damage to the airplane, but the reason for the incident is being investigated. The airline said alterna

Free Wi-Fi is convenient, but it is also unsafe and puts users at great risk. Here’s how the cybercriminals attack user on these open networks. The free Wi-Fi is one of the catchiest things for the users in today’s world. This is the main reason why so many free public Wi-Fi can be found without much of a problem. It is not only free but convenient to use these open networks. However, many might not be aware of the fact that these free open Wi-Fi hotspots are actually unsafe and they put the users at great risk. There are multiple ways in which many cybercriminals are targeting the users of these free Wi-Fi hotspots. Many of these users are at least aware that the open networks they connect are actually unsafe. But what they do not know are various ways in which they are being targeted by the cybercriminals and hackers on these open networks. Ways in which Hackers Target free Wi-Fi Users The open for all nature of the free public Wi-Fi networks makes them unsafe for all the users. All

The EU has called on the Democratic Republic of Congo to restore internet access, which operators say was cut on government orders. The internet has been blocked since Monday, the day after the presidential election. The joint statement by the European Union, the United States, Canadian and Swiss heads of mission in Kinshasa was issued on Monday. The British Ambassador in the DR Congo tweeted the statement. The statement also refers to the election observers the National Episcopal Electoral Conference of Congo (Cenco) and an alliance of citizens' observer missions, Symocel. But the country's two main election monitors are still trying to get access to the election count, reports AFP news agency. The result is expected on 6 January.

The Politics of Vote me Because i Speak the Truths, i am Tough Talking, i am a Critique and among other Few Speech  Bending Bubbles. Dear Fellow Ugandans, Africans and World at Large, Happy New Year 2019. As this been our First Phrase in this New Year 2019, we are warmly obliged to write and Sensitise Our People, Particularly the Youth Generation about their seemingly destructive believe on some Political Concoctions. Well, it is not somehow Bad if we Elect MPs or Presidents who are Fluent in Arguing and Speaking the Truths but it should be stuck in Our Minds that, These Kinds of People are mainly self-centered to the Extent, they use their Positions and Influences to Selfishly and Greedily invest Themselves. Worst enough, these Kinds of People who Praise themselves of Being Tough Talking and Speaking the Truths, are mainly Poor People and Once People give them the Power to ascent on Power (Political Offices), they Bite for Real. It should not be forgotten in Our Minds that, Vast Duty