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Cameroonians living in the United Kingdom have tendered the sum of ten million FCFA to the government of Cameroon to fight Boko Haram and also handle other related problems.
The package was handed to government on Monday in the nation's capital, Yaoundé.
This comes at the time when financial problems are plaguing the fight against the terror group.
Recently, Chad warned that it could pull out some of it's soldiers from the Multinational Joint Task Force due to financial difficulties.
The Multinational Joint Task Force is a combined military effort by Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Benin to curb insecurity.
The fight against the terror group is far being over. The group continues to carry out sporadic attacks.
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There is one major observation many Cameroonians have made. The comportment of ministers during a visual encounter with the media.
Almost every minister works tooth and nail to have Biya's picture at the background.
When a minister wants to give an interview, they first look round if a gigantic photograph of the president is behind them.
If they can't spot a picture within the camera frame, they rush the team to where they can find one. That's loyalty, of course.
I was reading an article on Cameroon-Info.Net when my eyes fell on the Minister of External Relations. Le Jeune Mbella Mbella has a huge photo of Biya behind him, as he holds a document in a seeming reading manner.
And most interestingly, that photo depicts Biya in his very earliest life. The president is young, of course.
Who knows what could happen to a minister who uses Biya's real photo, portraying a face battling with the unseen hands of age? Prison or retirement, who knows.
Eighty-four-year-old Paul Biya commands a lot of respect or fear, depending on how you see it.
He has been in power for over three decades. Most of his men have wound up behind bars, even those who were presumed to be his right-hand puppets.
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Education authorities have been popping champagne over what they say is a successful conduct of official exams in the Anglophone regions despites arsons, threats and ghost towns. But the fate of students and pupils in promotion classes still lies on a balance and that has made their joy short-lived . We have learnt government is considering a political decision for pupils and students in the North West and South West regions over their academic fate. Following the Anglophone crisis which has grounded schools in the Anglophone regions since November last year, the government will decide whether untaught students will move to the next class or repeat.
Secondary and Basic education Ministers are due to make a trip to the North West and South West regions in days ahead to discuss with regional officials on the fate of students and pupils in promotion classes on the issue. The resolution of this forum will be forwarded by the Ministers to government for a decision to be made.
Authorities of Confessional schools on their part say it is abnormal for untaught students to gain promotion. They maintain that the only measuring rod to rate students is exams and if there is no exams the they have to repeat. These religious schools were not part of this year's public exams because their students were not taught.
In the meantime, heads of Government primary, secondary and High schools were expected to send a detailed report of how their institutions have fared during the crisis to the Ministries of Basic and Secondary education . This will also enable Government better know the approach to take to decide the fate of pupils and students in these troubled regions.
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Four Boko Haram suicide bombers blew themselves up in Cameroon on Saturday morning, killing themselves and a civilian in what seems to have become a way of life in this battered part of the world, even as the international media look the other way.
The bombing in Cameroon on Saturday morning occurred in Ngalbi area of Mora in Cameroon’s far north.
“Suicide bombings this morning in ngalbi (Mora). 04 suicide bombers and 01 civilian killed,” reported Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel.
Just a day earlier, on Friday morning, two Boko Haram suicide bombers blew themselves up in Cameroon, killing themselves and a civilian.
The suicide attacks took place in the town of Kerawa in the country’s far north along the border with Nigeria where Abubakar Shekau’s men are based and from where they consistently launch regional attacks against civilians and armed forces.
“Suicide bombing this morning in kerawa. Interim report 03 Dead (02 suicide bombers and a civilian),” reported Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel.
Those attacks on Friday occurred only 48 hours after clashes between people of Manigueidé village in the district of Afadé, also in Cameroon’s far north, and Boko Haram fighters, left two villagers dead. One terrorist was captured.
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A private member’s bill seeking to protect the rights of internet users in Cameroon will soon be tabled at the National Assembly for scrutiny.
Arrangements for the tabling of the bill, an initiative of Bamenda-based non-governmental organization, A Common Future, The Cameroon Journal learnt yesterday, are far advanced.
Colbert Gwain Fulai, founder and Executive Director of A Common Future said recently that should the bill sail through, issues such as internet shutdown and surveillance by government should be brought under control.
Going by a draft of the bill titled “Creating a ‘Digital Bill of Rights’ for Cameroon: Why do we need it and what should we include?” the initiators disclosed that amongst other things, it seeks to ensure that the civil and human rights that apply in the physical world also apply online.
The bill, they said, also aims to establish the key rights that are particular to the digital sphere, ensure greater transparency around the ways in which government and private companies use personal data as well as protect and control citizens to take control of their own personal data and to make information choices about their digital lives.
In an introductory note, the initiators wrote: “Drawing from the sad experience of an unprecedented internet shutdown in parts of Cameroon and the human, economic, social, cultural and political consequences on Cameroon, this bill sets forth principles, guarantees, rights and duties for the use of the internet in Cameroon and establishes guidelines for action by government and its citizens in relation to the internet so that internet shutdowns do not become the new common in this nation.”
President Paul Biya ordered the restoration of internet services in the northwest and southwest regions of the country on April 20, 93 days after government shutdown the facility following protests in the Anglophone regions of the country.
The internet blackout was met with criticism and even more protests as regions unaffected by the shutdown led an online #BringBackOurInternet campaign to restore internet services to Anglophone regions. Rebecca Enonchong, a Cameroonian tech entrepreneur, said the campaign “was an expression of solidarity for those in the no-internet zones.” She told Quartz, “The millions of tweets of support gave them hope.” The blackout was also condemned by internet advocacy groups and United Nations officials, who described it as a rights violation.
Despite the blackout, some Cameroonian startups found ways to get online by creating an internet refugee camp On an even brighter note, during the shutdown, 17-year-old Nji Collins Gbah, whose hometown was cut off the internet, emerged as the first African winner in Google’s annual coding competition.
Cameroon has never adopted a Private member bill and at a time when government has announced sanctions to those who publish "false" information on social media, its certain the bill might have a tough fence to scale through from the CPDM dorminate house.
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Two Boko Haram suicide bombers blew themselves up in Cameroon on Friday morning, killing themselves and a civilian.
The suicide attacks took place in the town of Kerawa in the country’s far north along the border with Nigeria where Abubakar Shekau’s men are based and from where they consistently launch regional attacks against civilians and armed forces.
“Suicide bombing this morning in kerawa. Interim report 03 Dead (02 suicide bombers and a civilian),” reported Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel.
The latest attacks occurred only 48 hours after clashes between people of Manigueidé village in the district of Afadé, also in Cameroon’s far north, and Boko Haram fighters, left two villagers dead. One terrorist was captured.
Boko Haram attacks in Cameroon and Nigeria have increased in recent months. In Cameroon, the terrorists have massacred more than two thousand civilians and killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and many have been kidnapped and never seen again.
President Paul Biya of Cameroon who has never set foot in the war zone has vowed many times that the terrorists would be crushed, but as days turned into weeks, and weeks into months and years, it became apparent that the terrorists were far from being crushed.
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