Inside Cameroon

President Paul Biya reportedly left the country for a short private visit to Europe since February 23, the same day as the Sultan of Bamoum, Mbombo Mjoya. Informed opinions in Yaounde say both men have held a meeting on the state of the nation and Biya's bid for 2018. Cameroon Concord's senior political editor hinted that everything seems to suggests Biya and Njoya have met in France and agreed on the holding of early presidential elections. 

The Sultan-CPDM Senator had made his position public during a section conference of the ruling party in Bafoussam where he observed that it has become very urgent and imperative to consider convening an extraordinary congress of the ruling party to discuss the worrying situation that is on the horizon, "that may seriously threaten the peace which is very dear, and which has been hard-won in Cameroon".

Some reports have suggested the former cabinet minister and supreme leader of the Foumban people is not happy with the current cabinet and has been heard murmuring privately that "it lacks respect".

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Elangwe Pauline

02.Mar.2016

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The trial of Hamed Abba, a reporter in the Hausa language with Radio France International which opened on Monday in the Yaounde Military Tribunal was postponed to 28 March 2016, at the request of the prosecutor. 

Arrested in late July 2015, in the Far North region of Cameroon in possession of two identity cards (Nigeria and Cameroon) Ahmed Abba has always claimed not to be a terrorist. Reporters Without Borders has described his detention as "arbitrary" and illegal."

He was detained in "total secrecy" without any possibility to get in touch with his family and lawyer.

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Elangwe Pauline

02.Mar.2016

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Prostitutes in Cameroon reportedly sell more of their clients sperm to marabouts and traditional witch doctors Cameroon Concord has learned. According to a survey conducted by a local press, prostitutes now use sperm from customers and hand them to fetishes. On the process, several young girls interviewed by the newspaper "New Vision" show that "when the customer completes the sexual act, they remove the condom, throw it in a bucket. Once their client was released, they return to seek the object, put it in a plastic and keep carefully in a bag. 

Prostitutes have confessed to systematically collect sperms with all the men who sleep with them and give them to marabouts to use the sperm for rituals. According to a sample of surveyed sex workers, this practice is widespread in Cameroon prostitution allowing them to attract such easy charm married men. The practice is spreading across all major cities of the country including used condoms abandoned by real couples holidaying in hotel rooms around the country.

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Ngwa Bertrand

19.Aug.2015

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A 24-hour Tube strike is set to get underway in London after talks to resolve a pay row between unions and London Underground failed.The walkout is due to begin from 18-30 BST. According to Transport for London (TfL), there will be no train services on Thursday.

TfL has already called on commuters to complete their journeys before the industrial action starts. This will be the second time that Tube stations across London close this month. 

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Ngwa Bertrand

05.Aug.2015

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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has confirmed that the recently discovered debris on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion belongs to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

“An international team of experts have ... confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370," said Razak during a press conference in the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.

"We now have physical evidence, that as I announced 24th March last year, flight MH370, tragically ended in the Southern Indian Ocean," he went on to say.

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Ngwa Bertrand

05.Aug.2015

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South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has returned to hospital for treatment barely a  week after leaving a Cape hospital following a concentrated antibiotic treatment for a "persistent infection." The Nobel Peace Prize winner was readmitted after reporting some discomfort revealed his wife Leah. 

The daughter of Desmond Tutu, Mpho, was quoted as saying that the hospitalization of his father 83 years old was not related to treatment for his cancer. Desmond Tutu has been suffering from prostate cancer for several years now. A popular figure in the struggle against apartheid, Archbishop Tutu is noted for relentlessly being critical of the imperfections of his country and denounces regularly the failings of the ANC and Nelson Mandela's successors.

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Ngwa Bertrand

29.Jul.2015

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