Voice Of The Oppressed

The Prize of a Writer and Revolutionary!

Steve Neba-Fuh

@NebaFuh

Those who thought they will spring a surprise, manipulate the agenda and use the people as their springboard to achieve their egoistic ambition are in for a surprise! 

They are scratching their heads and wondering where they went wrong! No! You didn't go wrong! It is just that your reasoning stopped where others' began. Their desperation is overwhelming! They are using their last shots to shoot true patriots, aiming to catch a glimpse of their relevance in this ever fading mirage of theirs.

Compatriots, I have news for you. This struggle for liberation has often been a marathon. It didn't start in 2016! There are patriots that have sustained the pillars of this struggle that culminated in the onset of this revolution. 

Our common enemy is vicious and we had kept the flame burning before 2016. Therefore, you do us no favour when you listen to us. You help yourself! 

As a writer and a revolutionary, you do not choose your 'prizes', they come in all forms and shapes:

Is SCCOP Relevant at this Point in the Revolution?

Steve Neba-Fuh

@NebaFuh

(This article was initially published on the 2nd of June 2018)

“Any person from La Republique du Cameroun or from any other movement or organization with a goal, vision or mission that is contrary to what SCCOP stands for but who aspires to become a member of SCCOP shall be subject to rigorous vetting by an ad-hoc committee established for that purpose”  Section 5 a). 

The above is quoted verbatim from SCCOP By-Laws: Internal Rules and Regulations, as published in March 2018. SCCOP which is an acronym for ‘Southern Cameroons Congress of the People’ is a new political outfit initiated from South Africa. (NB: It is likely that the group might have amended this section of their by-laws, immediately after this article was first published in June).

In a normal context, an initiative to form political groups (which are different from other  advocacy groups) will not attract the scrutiny that has befallen the proponents of this new group. Southern Cameroonians (Ambazonians) are in a revolution, fighting to unclamp themselves from the servitude subjected to them 57 years ago by La Republique du Cameroun’s annexation of our territory.

It is outrageously ironic that at this time in this revolution, when a genocide is systematically being executed in Ambazonia by dictator Biya and his brutal forces, an outfit like SCCOP is giving a 'blank cheque' to “any person of La Republique du Cameroun” who may NOT even believe in its goal, vision or mission, to join the group.

SCBC is for sale! How the SCBC is planning to lose the Revolutionary Voice of the Ambazonian People.

By Steve Neba-Fuh

@NebaFuh

A revolution is not a football match where we expect the arbiter or referee to be unbiased.  The role of a media house in a revolution is to forge unity amongst the revolting people and present their case to the world in such a manner that changes the narrative to suit their goal of liberation.  Even the oldest broadcasting outfit- the BBC mostly funded by the British people was used as a uniting force during the Second World War. Up till today, the BBC is not independent as neophytes may be prone to believe! Their editorial policy is trimmed to suit the British people and government policies, promoting unity amongst them and protecting their royal set up.

To Cameroon, UN Guterres Gives Medal While Banning Press As UN Peacekeeping Ignores Menka(Southern Cameroons)

By Matthew Russell Lee

INNER CITY PRESS

UNITED NATIONS, June 1 – Amid the worsening crackdown by the army of 36-year Cameroon president Paul Biya in the country's Anglophone areas, in April a video circulated depicting soldiers burning down homes. Click here to watch Cameroun military burning houses in Southern Cameroons. Noted by many residents and activists: blue helmet of the type used by UN peacekeepers.

 

On April 30 Inner City Press asked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric about the video, the day after publishing a story about it, in Google News. April 30 Q&A video here; transcript below. On June 1, the UN's "Peacekeepers' Day," Guterres handed an award to Cameroon's Ambassador in a ceremony Inner City Press was told it could not enter, while state media from Morocco and other countries were allowed in. Tweet here.

 

Two hours later the head of UN Peacekeeping held a press conference. Inner City Press asked him about the lack of vetting of troops from Sri Lanka and Cameroon. He answered on Sri Lanka - while entirely ignoring Inner City Press' question about Cameroon. Video here. This is today's UN of Antonio Guterres.

 

Amid the killings in Menka - Santa, a 15 year sentence imposed on Mancho Bibixi for "acts of terrorism, hostility against the homeland, secession, revolution and insurrection." Whose homeland? From the UN, which put a cap on questions on May 25 while Antonio Guterres once again on the road, absolutely nothing. Dead silence. On May 29, Inner City Press asked Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric, video here, UN transcript here: and below. On May 30, Dujarric waited until the day's noon briefing to read out this answer, after which Inner City Press asked if UN will make Biya government's explanation of Menka if any public, and if UN's Francois Lounceny Fall is involved. No; video here.

 

Dujarric for the UN read out: "I have been asked about the violence in the Anglophone region of Cameroon in recent days, and I can say that we are aware of the clashes between the Cameroonian armed forces and unidentified armed men in the town of Menka, in the North-West Anglophone region of Cameroon, on 24 May. We express our condolences to the families of the victims. The United Nations country team is in contact with the authorities to clarify the circumstances of the incident.

 

Fru Ndi slams Tchiroma over comments on Menka-Pinyin Killings

Source: Journal du Cameroun

SDF National Chairman, Ni John Fru Ndi, has rubbished the comments made by the Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, on last week killings in Menka-Pinyin in the North West Region of Cameroon.

The SDF Chieftain described Minister Tchiroma’s utterances on the killings as “lies.”

He was speaking on Wednesday, May 30, 2018, during a press briefing at his Ntarinkon residence.

During the press briefing, the SDF National Chairman dared the Government Spokesperson to present the 20 hostages, the guns and ammunitions, that he alleged were rescued and confiscated respectively from the Ambazonia Defence Forces.

To him, the Minister’s press conference was intended to divert the attention of Cameroonians and the international community.

Fru Ndi berated the manner in which the security forces slain what he termed “27 innocent Cameroonians.”

Continue reading: "Fru Ndi slams Tchiroma over comments on Menka-Pinyin Killings

 

Southern Cameroons in Crisis: Dozens killed in Menka-Pinyin as civilians flee French Cameroun onslaught

Source: Cameroon Intelligence Report

Cameroon government forces have killed at least 30 Southern Cameroons civilians in Menka- Pinyin in the Northern Zone outside Bamenda, while another Biya regime attack on a small settlement in the Southern Zone of Mbalangi left 22 dead.  The death toll came a week after the US ambassador Peter Barlerin called on President Biya to stop the senseless killings of Ambazonians and to step down.

In Santa Sub Division, the Anglophone Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji reportedly planned and ordered government forces to use conventional explosives on innocent civilian population, a senior Roman Catholic clergy said.

The assault is part of an indiscriminate campaign by President Biya’s forces to retake control of the territory now known as the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.  Cameroon Intelligence Report sources in Bamenda noted that there are no doctors to treat patients for severe gun wounds.

Continue reading: "Southern Cameroons in Crisis: Dozens killed in Menka-Pinyin..."

 

Also read : Southern Cameroons Crisis: 8 more bodies found in Menka-Pinyin

Southern Cameroons Chilling Tale

Source: The Nation

Thirty-five-year-old Obot Ayuk, a cocoa farmer and father of three in Southern Cameroon town of Kenbong which shares borders with Nigeria, watched helplessly as soldiers wreaked havoc in the community. He saw houses burning with elderly people in them. Farmlands were destroyed, women raped and about 11 unarmed civilians, including three teenagers were killed in one fell swoop.

                                                   

Now an internally displaced person (IDP) in one of the camps in Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital, Ayuk told our correspondent that his village had turned into a ghost town with goats and other domestic animals occupying homes. He had fled to Douala through the forest and was still searching for his wife and three children.

He said: “They invaded our villages, raped our women, burnt down houses and looted properties. They said we were hiding Ambazonian fighters, and for that reason, they would kill us all. Since October last year, we have not known peace in Kenbong. The village has become desolate and our farmlands have been destroyed.

Continue reading ''Southern Cameroons Chilling Tale''

Cameroon Summons US Envoy Over Anti-Government Remarks

Cameroonian authorities have summoned the United States’ ambassador to the Foreign Ministry to have him explain his earlier anti-government comments.

US Ambassador Peter Barlerin was called in to the Cameroonian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.

Earlier, on May 18, Barlerin had accused government forces of the “targeted killing” of separatists in the autonomy-seeking English-speaking regions of the country.

Continue reading: "Cameroon Summons US Envoy Over Anti-Government Remarks

Southern Cameroonian(Ambazonian) Revolution - A Critical Look at the Emergence of New Political Groups

By Steve Neba-Fuh

@NebaFuh

 

"There is nothing as dampening in a revolution , as a people divided in purpose and clinging to personal allegiances"- Steve Neba-Fuh

There is an ongoing debate about whether it is healthy for the ongoing revolution to have more groups  (especially  political) emerging at this point in  time.

 

My opinion about this is simple, we do not need many more political groups that may fracture our revolution for now. We have the necessary structures in the current Interim Government (IG) ready to receive whatever concerns or proposals we have, and more importantly, open to work collaboratively towards ventures that will strengthen this revolution, without necessarily threatening the basic core of leadership structure and relative unity built so far. 

 

POINTS TO CONSIDER: 

 

1) Our revolution is like an orphan, it needs unity of purpose in a coordinated form to allow it survive: 

 

We have reached this level in the revolution because of our relative high sense of unity of purpose. I strongly believe we could have gone further than this  if we never had all these alternative groups, sometimes diluting our collective effort and doing things their way, instead of consolidating our gains.

 

2) Our government is a Revolutionary Government  and not a normal Government: 

 

First, a revolutionary government is a  provisional leadership structure set up on the platform of a populist revolutionary movement,  to direct the revolution.  Even though the IG does not have the necessary republican structures to enforce all its laws, it still relies on baseline support from compatriots( both home and abroad) who may  not have the 'luxury' of reading political manifestos, such as our brave  compatriots back home defending our homeland and many others who are  refugees , some sleeping  in bushes , not sure if they will see the next sunrise.

 

Therefore, we must rely on the common sense and collective camaraderie of all revolutionaries, as well as  the bravery of our compatriots both in the diaspora and on ground zero to sustain this revolution. 

 

The revolutionary government, though not a product of some universal suffrage, enjoys  the support of the  majority of our people. In the case of Interim Government (IG) , we were all witnesses to the metamorphosis that led us to having this government. There is no denying that this structure represents the aspirations of our people in this revolution. Managing the IG and its appending structures is not an exact venture. It is a learning process. We should expect more  hiccups and be ready to assist our leaders in a context that does not fragment or undermine our collective effort.

Genocide in Southern Cameroons- Biya's Scotched-earth Policy (Video )

85 year-old Brutal dictator Paul Biya of La Republique du Cameroun has ordered his military to implement a scotched-earth policy in the ongoing genocide in the English-speaking people of Southern Cameroons also known  Ambazonia. 

The terrorist military thugs were caught on camera setting ablaze houses of innocent Southern Cameroonians in Azi- Lebialem County. In some instances villages were completely razed by the military. A few of the villagers who wer not killed,  have evacuated their villages- living in bushes and about 50.000 Ambazonians are refugees in neighbouring Nigeria.

The genocide is ongoing in plain sight and the whole  world is watching!!  

Watch the video below:

 

 

Ongoing Genocide on the English-speaking People of Southern Cameroons aka Ambazonia

Brutal dictator Paul Biya  of La Republique du Cameroun and his terrorist military are executing a well -rehearsed genocide in plain sight in Southern Cameroons aka Ambazonia now. Torture, extrajudicial killings of unarmed English-speaking citizens are common place.  Another '1994 Rwanda' is ongoing as the world sits and watch. Watch the video below.

WARNING: Disturbing images

 

 

Massacre of Southern Cameroonians (Ambazonians) in Menka-Pinyin Mezam county 

 

 

 

Nigeria's DSS 'Arrests Cameroon Separatist Leader'

Source: BBC

The leader of Cameroon's separatist movement has been arrested by Nigeria's intelligence agency, a government source has told the BBC.

Sisiku Ayuk Tabe was arrested on Friday in Abuja for engaging in a clandestine meeting against Cameroonian authorities, the source said.

Officially, the Department for State Service has denied making the arrest.

Continue reading: Nigeria's DSS 'Arrest Cameroon Separatist Leader'

Our Responsibility to Safeguard The Revolution and Disregard Detractors

By Steve Neba-Fuh

 

The year is coming to an end and a new year is just at the corner. It is important for us to take stock of the miles we have covered this far in this revolution and to reassess our present strengths and weaknesses.

I will like to concentrate today on just one of those weaknesses and hope that in 2018 those who have been in the forefront or the backyard of this vice desist from it so that the collective effort that we set out to harness will prevail over petty insecurities and chronic egoism.

 

There will be no 'merrying' this Christmas season for most of us. For how can we go 'merrying' in the callous sense of it when some of our compatriots are being buried as I write this piece. Others are still in the despicable dungeons called prisons in neighbouring La Republique du Cameroun, and worse still thousands of our people- women, children and senior citizens are trooping into neighbouring Nigeria as refugees? 

 

How can we make merry this season knowing fully well that a handful of socalled 'leaders' have sworn before God and man, that there will never be involved in any concrete united coalition, which every sane compatriot understands its importance vis a vis this revolution?

 

How will 2018 look like for our people in the midst of an unsolicited war waged on them by the colonial regime headed by Dictator Biya?

How can our common goal not supersede our personal ambitions in the struggle?  Why have we resorted to cheap slingshots when we can direct our bazookas towards our common enemy, at this critical time when nothing but unity in solidarity and resolve to defend ourselves  should be paramount?

 

Cameroon Arrests Author Who Criticised President

Source: Daily Mail

Cameroonian author Patrice Nganang was arrested at the airport as he tried to fly to Zimbabwe a day after publishing an opinion piece sharply critical of Cameroon's president, a source said Thursday.

Nganang, who teaches literature at New York University, "was taken into custody yesterday (Wednesday) at Douala (airport)," a source close to the police told AFP.

"He drew attention to himself in recent days with several acts of provocation," the source said, also mentioning Nganang's Facebook posts.

Agents were waiting for him at the airport in Douala, Cameroon's economic capital, and he has since been taken to the capital Yaounde for detention.

 

 

The writer had been en route to Harare after wrapping up a stay in mainly French-speaking Cameroon, during which he visited the restive anglophone regions that have been hit by an anti-secession government crackdown.

 

Cameroun's Kondengui Prison- Torture Chamber for Abducted Southern Cameroonians (Video)

 

 

Cameroon Escalates Military Crackdown on Anglophone Separatists

Source: Reuters

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon’s government has ordered thousands of villagers to leave their homes in the Anglophone Southwest region as it deploys troops to root out armed separatists who have vowed to loosen President Paul Biya’s long grip on power.

The deployment marks an escalation of Biya’s year-long crackdown on peaceful protests in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions that has killed dozens of civilians and forced thousands to flee their homes in fear of reprisals.

Now, the government is using force to confront an insurgency that has sprung up alongside the civil unrest.

Continue reading: ''Cameroon escalates military crackdown on Anglophone separatists''

*(Southern) Cameroonians flee government troops in English-speaking regions

 * There are two distinct peoples occupying the territories known as The Cameroons: 'Southern Cameroonians' ( also known as Ambazonians) and 'Camerounians' also known as French Cameroonians) 

Source: Deutsche Welle

People fleeing villages in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon accuse government troops of killings, rape and harassment. Thousands are on the run after President Paul Biya declared war on secessionists.

The new Kumba-Mamfe road in the English-speaking South West Region of Cameroon, built to improve traffic and commerce, is almost deserted. It is the road that allows trade to flourish between Nigeria and Cameroon. But 32-year-old merchant Ethel Takem told DW that she and her peers had to suspend their trading when Cameroon President Paul Biya declared war on local separatist groups last weekend: "The number of check points is just unbearable," Takem said. She likened the president's soldiers to hungry lions let loose on a defenseless population. "Those who want to be killed can travel. I still have my life ahead, so I will not move," she said.

Continue reading: ''Cameroonians flee government troops in English-speaking regions''

Slaughtered Because They Spoke English

Source: thedailybeast.com

By Philip Obaji Jr

At the beginning of last month, in the largely Francophone country of Cameroon, a separatist movement decided to make a bid for independence. English-speaking Cameroonians in two western regions of the country close to English-speaking Nigeria took to the streets to proclaim the Republic of Ambazonia.

Unlike Kurdish separatists in Iraq or Catalan separatists in Spain, they attracted little attention from the outside world, but they were met with extraordinary violence. Cameroonian troops and attack helicopters opened fire on the protesters. These were not rubber bullets. These were live rounds, and many lost their lives.

Continue reading: 'Slaughtered Because They Spoke English'

Southern Cameroons Genocide: Anglopone Bishops' Declaration

 

BAPEC/PRES/2017/28 – 4th October 2017

DECLARATION OF THE BISHOPS OF THE BAMENDA PROVINCIAL EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE (BAPEC) FOLLOWING THE MASSIVE DEMONSTRATIONS
AND THE CURFEW IMPOSED ON THE NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST REGIONS FROM FRIDAY, 29TH SEPTEMBER TO MONDAY, 2ND OCTOBER 2017.

“If you in your turn had only understood on this day the message of peace!” (Lk. 19:42)

1. Since Friday, 22nd September 2017, and particularly from midnight on Friday, 29th September to midnight on Monday, 2nd October 2017, the people of the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon, which regions are coterminous with the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda, have gone through a very challenging and crucial period. Although the danger is not yet over, we, the Bishops of the Bamenda Provincial Episcopal Conference (BAPEC), consider it our bounded and God-given duty to make this declaration at this point in time to share with our brothers and sisters and people of good will what we have gone through up till now and possibly to contribute to the prevention of the worse that may still come if our voice, which is that of the voiceless, and similar other well-intentioned voices are not heeded by the competent authorities.

2. “A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loudly lamenting: it was Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they were no more.” (Mt. 2:18; cf. Jer. 31:15). This lamentation of the Prophet Jeremiah is once more a reality as it was with the brutal murder of the Holy Innocents in the place of the Infant Jesus. From Bota in Fako to Ako in Donga Mantung, from Bakassi in Ndian to Menji in Lebialem, families are weeping for their children, for they are no more. Since Friday, 29th September 2017, there have been various forms of violence and atrocities that have bedevilled most towns and villages of the North West and South West Regions, which coincide with the territory of the Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province, resulting to even the supreme loss of human lives. The groans from the dying and shrieks of the wounded make our hearts bleed from pain. The sighs of those who have lost property through looting or arson, the pain of anxiety inflicted on families and friends of those abducted or missing, the trauma caused on the young and the old by the fright from the warlike atmosphere of last weekend in particular have left another heap of painful memories in our minds and hearts. We want, in the first place, to express our profound grief and sympathies to those families who in the recent crisis have lost their dear ones. We pray for the repose of the souls of those who have died. May the Risen Lord welcome them into his Kingdom. We express our solidarity with those who have sustained injuries and those suffering in any way, those arrested and incarcerated, and the families that have been separated from their loved ones or displaced. May the Crucified Lord, with whom they are now hanging on the Cross, be their consolation.

3. In the Gospel of Luke (19:41-42) we are told that when Jesus drew near to the city of Jerusalem he shed tears over it and said: “If you in your turn had only understood on this day the message of peace!” Following the initial peaceful demonstration of Lawyers of the Common Law, the sit-down strike of the Teachers’ Trade Unions in November 2016, on 6th December 2016, we, the Bishops of the Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province, in an Appeal concerning the Sit-down Strike Action Called by the Teachers’ Trade Unions of the English-Speaking Subsystem of Education, pointed out that it is important to respect the conventions that bind us together as a people and that the bicultural nature of Cameroon, which enriches our diversity, should be a treasured commodity that guides our interaction with each other as children of the same fatherland. We also condemned in very unequivocal terms the violence perpetuated by some groups of young people on the one hand and the acts of brutality, torture, inhuman and unjustified treatment meted out to some of our youths by the Forces of Law and Order on the other hand. We called on the Government to restrain such barbaric action of the Forces of Law and Order and to bring to justice those of them who had been irresponsible, so that peace may reign.

4. Unfortunately, the Government did not heed our appeal, but the CPDM Ruling Party went on to organise a so-called ‘Peace March’, which provoked the resistance of most of the people and the subsequent reaction of the Forces of Law and Order that led to further violence on 8th December 2016. Violence begets violence! The consequent result of the violence on that day was the shooting of unarmed youths by the Forces of Law and Order, a black Thursday indeed in Bamenda! Despite the call of the Archbishop of Bamenda for the demilitarisation of Bamenda Town and the rest of the towns of the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, the military presence in the area was rather increased and many more persons were arrested and ferried to Yaoundé.

Southern Cameroonian Refugee Recounts Ordeal After Escaping to Nigeria (Video)

 

 

 

Ongoing Genocide in Southern Cameroons (Video)

 

 

CARNAGE IN SOUTHERN CAMEROONS: Over 40 Feared Dead as Gov’t Troops Unleash Bullets on Powerless Masses

Source: SCJournal

Cameroon Journal, Buea – The declaration on Saturday night September 30 of the independence of the Southern Cameroons by the leader of the separatist movement Ayuk Tabe Julius, preceded a fierce military attack on armedless people who had rallied out in their numbers the next day in celebration of the event.

Continue reading:CARNAGE IN SOUTHERN CAMEROONS: Over 40 Feared Dead as Gov’t Troops Unleash Bullets on Powerless Masses

Leader of Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) Restoration Speech- 1st October 2017

 

 

Southern Cameroonians (Ambazonians) - A People Deprived and Oppressed

 

 

Discussion on the Southern Cameroons Problem

 

 

Southern Cameroonian Activists Locked up in one of Dictator Biya's ''Concentration Camps'' (video)

 Most deplorable conditions of detention: A 'bunker' with no window, no light and no water!!!

 

Cameroun's Deplorable Prison Conditions- ''Concentration Camps'' (video)

 

Cameroon's Secret Torture Chambers

Source: Amnesty International

 

''Victims of torture described at least 24 different methods used to beat, break and humiliate those subjected to it, usually with the aim of forcing confessions or providing information, but also to punish, terrify or intimidate. Most commonly, detainees were severely beaten with various objects including electric cables, machetes and wooden sticks, forced into stress positions and suspended from poles in ways that caused extreme pain in the joints and muscles, and subjected to drowning. Most victims were subjected to a mixture of these methods on multiple occasions, while also suffering inhumane conditions of detention and the deprivation of food, water and medical treatment. The severity of torture has led to many deaths, with 32 of the 101 victims saying that they had witnessed the deaths of others following torture''. -Amnesty International

Click here to download full report published by Amnesty International titled 'Cameroon's Secret Torture Chambers:...'

 

Trial Over Cameroon's Anglophone Protests Exposes National Divide

By Sylvain Andzongo | YAOUNDE

The trial of three English-speaking protesters facing the death penalty opened at a military court in Cameroon on Monday in a case that has exposed national divisions and stoked opposition to Francophone President Paul Biya.

Since October, people in Cameroon's two western English-speaking regions have joined protests against what they say is their marginalization by the French-speaking majority under Biya's 35-year rule.

At least six protesters have been shot dead and hundreds others arrested during the rare challenge to state authority, prompting criticism from human rights groups and concern from the African Union.

The three civil society figures and political activists -- Felix Agbor Balla, Fontem Aforteka'a Neba and Mancho Bibixy -- pleaded not guilty in a court in the capital Yaounde as dozens of security officials stood guard.

 They face multiple charges including complicity in hostility against the homeland, secession and civil war, and campaigning for federalism following their involvement in the English regions' protests.

Continue reading: 'Trial Over Cameroon's Anglophone Protests Exposes National Divide'

Fears For Jailed Activists as Cameroon Cracks Down on Anglophone Minority

Source:theguardian

Agbor Balla and Fontem Neba could face death penalty over protests to promote rights of nation’s English-speaking minority

Two activists jailed for trying to promote anglophone rights in Cameroon will remain in prison after their trial for terrorism was delayed without an official explanation.

Human rights lawyer Felix Agbor Balla and university lecturer Fontem Neba, who were arrested last month, could face the death penalty for organising peaceful protests to promote the rights of the English-speaking minority in the central African country.

Continue reading: 'Fears For Jailed Activists as Cameroon Cracks Down on Anglophone Minority'

 

Leader says the international community will not turn a blind eye to the plight of West Cameroonians

By Chi Prudence Asong

The Chairman of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium and Vice President of the Bar Association, Barrister Agbor Felix Nkongho have told a sea of Francophone army generals and judges from the military tribunal in Yaoundé that the international community will not turn a blind eye to the plight of British Southern Cameroonians. The Anglophone leader urged the United Nation, the European Union and the governments of the United States and Great Britain to unite in support of the persecuted minority in Cameroon.

Why Southern Cameroonian Students and Pupils Must Go Back to School Now

By Wanaku  VERDZEKOV

WHY SOUTHERN CAMEROONIAN STUDENTS AND PUPILS MUST GO BACK TO SCHOOL NOW: A DISGRUNTLED PARENT AND TEACHER LASHES OUT

Excerpt: ” I don’t want to be a fool forever. I WILL NOT GO TO SCHOOL COME MONDAY 9 AND THE DAYS AHEAD so as to be tortured, raped, riddled with grenades, tear gassed, or even killed.”

Again I take an antipodal position against popular opinion without minding the anathema and invective that loom over me. This fact-full, but emotionally packed and fustian write-up might be regarded by some as a satanic version; I don’t care because Ngugi wa Thiong’o has opined that every writer is a writer in politics. He however cautions that the politics must be one which sides with the down trodden. Yes. Our house (Southern Cameroon) is under the consumption of a gigantic fire and we cannot afford to chase the rats or pretend not to be scorched by the incineration. As a concerned parent and teacher I see the dire need to begin classes immediately. Varied reasons abound for both Southern Cameroonian teachers and students to descend to the classroom with immediate effect.

Continue reading: ''Why Southern Cameroonian Students and Pupils Must Go Back to School Now''

 

Southern Cameroons' Bishops write to the President of La Republique du Cameroun

Your Excellency,

For almost one month now there has been a series of unrests and violence in some towns of the Northwest and Southwest Regions(1) of Cameroon occasioned by the strike of the Anglophone Lawyers and of the Teachers’ Trade Unions of the English Sub-system of Education. These have led to the loss of human life and to the destruction of property of some of our citizens. There have been flagrant abuses of human rights, as demonstrated by credible eyewitness accounts and by pictures on local television channels and social media. This has led to a premature end to the first term of the school year and paralysed the court system in these regions to the detriment of school children, students, parents and the administration of justice. At the moment, it seems that the government and the striking groups have reached an impasse and it is not likely that the schools are going to open even when the second term begins for the rest of the country. These unrests are symptomatic of a deeper unease among the inhabitants of this geographical circumscription of our nation.

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Yahya Jammeh, Gambian President, Now Refuses to Accept Election Defeat

The New York Times

DAKAR, Senegal — The fate of the presidency in Gambia took a peculiar turn Friday night when the longtime incumbent appeared on state television to announce that he was rejecting the results of last week’s vote that ousted him. He also called for new elections.

Seated in front of microphones and between two flags, President Yahya Jammeh rattled off accusations of voter irregularities, from transposed numbers in tabulations to missing numbers that he said left in question the results of the election that handed the presidency to Adama Barrow.

“I hereby reject the results in totality,” said Mr. Jammeh, who has been in office for 22 years. “I will not accept the results.”

Continue reading: Yahya Jammeh, Gambian President, Now Refuses to Accept Election Defeat

''When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes A Duty'' quoted by Hon. Joseph Wirba

 

 

The Gambia’s President Jammeh Concedes Defeat in Election

Source: The Guardian

Incoming president, Adama Barrow, says Jammeh called him offering his congratulations after shock result.

The Gambia’s autocratic president, Yahya Jammeh, who once claimed a “billion-year” mandate to rule, has conceded defeat after a shock election loss to a real-estate developer who once worked as a security guard in London.

 

 

Jammeh had kept the tiny west African country under an iron grip for more than two decades, and there were fears that the eccentric 51-year-old would use violence or fraud to maintain power.

Instead he became a rare dictator to accept defeat in a democratic election, agreeing to hand power to challenger Adama Barrow, a softly spoken businessman who previously had little public profile.

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The Management of Diversity and the Cry of Common Law Lawyers.

 By AKERE MUNA (of Lincoln's Inn London) Barrister at Law

Forcing learned gentlemen of the law into the streets robed in their wigs and gowns is something no Government should wish for. Lawyers are the defenders of those without power, and the watchdogs of the rule of law. Citizens, who are witnesses to such a spectacle, will immediately feel fragile, and the existence of the rule of law in any country will immediately be questioned. As pictures of lawyers flooded the social media last November 08, 2016, and as I saw lawyers in the streets of Bamenda armed only with their ideas, their professional paraphernalia and the request for a dialogue, I wondered about the kind of denial that causes a few to think that because they shut their eyes nothing is happening; and that because they close their ears nothing is being said. The fact that I can relate without any strain to the frustration of the Common Law practitioner convinces me to conclude that, the effects of cultural diversity in a country on the behavior of its citizens are complex and powerful. The time has therefore come for our nation to put into place a new paradigm for the management of our cultural diversity. That is the price we must pay to find the true unity we seek and through it the strength for which we clamor.

'Africa Does Not Need Aid But Fair Trade'- Ghana President John Dramani Mahama

Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama has said fair trade between Africa and the rest of the world should replace the continent’s begging bowl. Addressing the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Dramani said Africa does not need aid or development assistance from developed countries but “a fair chance” to trade freely on an equal footing.

'Africa Does Not Need Aid But Fair Trade'-Ghana President John Dramani Mahama

 

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