Update January 16, 2007: The Moumie documentary is no longer available on the DailyMotion website. It was apparently uploaded on the site in violation of copyright regulations. Interested parties can order the documentary directly from Triluna Film AG.
Swiss filmmaker Frank Garbely's fascinating documentary on the Moumie assassination titled "L'assassinat de Félix Moumié. L'Afrique sous contrôle" ("The Assassination of Félix Moumié: Africa under Control") is now available online. (Click the Play button below to watch the entire documentary in French).
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Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered untold hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis while spraying chemical weapons over his enemies? Our masters will tell us in a few hours that it is a "great day" for Iraqis and will hope that the Muslim world will forget that his death sentence was signed - by the Iraqi "government", but on behalf of the Americans - on the very eve of the Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, the moment of greatest forgiveness in the Arab world.
Radio France International (RFI) has just wrapped up a 10-part five-hour series on the life and times of Cameroon’s first Head of State, Ahmadou Ahidjo - from his ascension to power in 1958 as Prime Minister of the French Cameroons, to his resignation as President of Cameroon in November 1982, to his death in exile in Dakar, Senegal in November 1989. Since Ahidjo's life is basically the history of Cameroon for the period in question, this is in essence an audio history of the bilingual Cameroon republic.
In Cameroon alone, the Global Fund and World Bank have allocated more than $133m (£68m) to stem the tide of HIV/Aids. But with corruption endemic, are the millions being spent on combating the disease being used effectively? 
On Aug. 9, 1989, as a black man was stopped on a bridge in Stuttgart forquestioning, he knifed two officers to death and wounded three others before being shot dead himself. This man's name was Frederic Otomo [from Cameroon]. At about 6:15 that morning, he had been confronted on a subway train by a ticket inspector, who told him he had to get off at the next stop. The inspector got aggressive with Otomo, who head-butted him and fled from the train, setting up the manhunt that ended on the bridge. 
, who tries to imagine what went through Otomo's mind between the two confrontations.
After a six-year break, US-based Cameroonian artist, Wanaku a.k.a The Tribal Monk has released his third album, Afrikan Guitarstrophy, in collaboration with his band, Sunplug’d. In this album, Wanaku shuns the “World Music” genre with its the over-reliance on technology and heavy (in)fusion of Western pop sounds. Instead, he unapologetically uses the acoustic guitar as the main conduit for what he calls “Sweet Afrikan Kontry Muziki”. This is not “afro-pop” byany stretch of the imagination; it is afro beat in its pure and unadulterated state.
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