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UN official says Israel’s West Bank moves amount to gradual de facto annexation

Top UN official warns of ‘gradual de facto annexation’ as Israel tightens West Bank control; Al‑Aqsa access curbed for Ramadan A senior United Nations official warned the Security Council that recent Israeli steps to expand control over parts of the occupied West Bank administered by the Palestinian Authority amount to “gradual de facto annexation,” escalating diplomatic tensions as Ramadan begins with new limits on access to Jerusalem’s Al‑Aqsa Mosque. “We are witnessing the gradual de facto annexation of the West Bank, as…

Maurice Kamto’s lawyers condemn his “de facto house arrest”

When we postpone this case to two weeks, this obviously presupposes that, during these two weeks, President Kamto will still be assigned his home without any court order without any administrative order. This attack will therefore continue for at least two more weeks, and we cannot admit that a Cameroonian is kept at home with his family and home staff without food, without medicine, for that long. In the meantime, we, the lawyers, are thinking of other procedures that we can initiate so that this measure is effectively…

opponent Maurice Kamto condemns “a de facto house arrest”

For a week, police have been deployed around the residence of the leader of the MRC. His party called for a protest against the Paul Biya regime in Cameroon last Tuesday. Demonstrations that mobilized an impressive security system despite the low turnout. Dozens of police and gendarme filters around the residence of Maurice Kamto day and night. In order to enter, a request must be made to the authorities. And until now Maurice Kamto claims not to have received any official notification from justice to explain the…