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A suicide bombing in Cameroon on Thursday morning left two dead and two injured in another attempt by Boko Haram terrorists to sow fear and forge ahead with the desperate building of their bloody caliphate.
That caliphate, they hope, would spread from Nigeria and extend to Cameroon, Chad and Niger in the Lake Chad Basin.
Today’s suicide attack took place in Djakana village of Cameroon’s far north, along the border with Nigeria where Abubakar Shekau’s men are based and from where they launch deadly attacks in this West and Central African region.
Djakana is located in the town of Mora, the department of Mayo-Sava in Cameroon’s far north.
The two bombers died instantly in their own attack and injured two civilians who are members of the vigilance force in Djakana, reported Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel. It was a provisional death toll, the newspaper said.
Bomb and gun attacks in Nigeria and Cameroon have escalated in recent weeks, a method adopted by ISIS-partners in West Africa, after losing much of the land they were controlling in the build up to Nigeria’s 2015 election.
It is not clear what Boko Haram wants. In videos, their leaders claim they are fighting against ‘sinful Christianity’ and trying to build a Caliphate where strict Islamic laws and life would apply. But, in practice, Boko Haram has bombed mosques, churches, market places, killing many Christians, Muslims and people of other faiths.
Many believe that the attacks in the Lake Chad region are connected to oil below the ground and sponsored by Western or Eastern forces where the heavy weapons are being manufactured.
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Bareta in one of his tweets today 31 May 2017, says there will be an immense ghost town on Monday 5th June 2017, throughout Southern Cameroons.
This time around, the resistance is taking another dimension, as some innovations have set in.
Mark says, after an assessment of popular opinion, it was concluded that henceforth, all ghost town days be named after those who lost their lives in the struggle for Southern Cameroon's freedom.
He said this Monday's ghost town will be named "Akum Julius ghost town". This hero who will forever be remembered, is one of our freedom fighters who lost their lives due to the Satanism of the regime in power. At the time he died, he was a student in the university of Bamenda.
The Consortium leader further said that, this ghost town will equally be in respect of our PCC pastors and Catholic Bishops, who are to appear before the high court in Buea on that same day.
Bareta in his tweet calls on every Southern Cameroonian to be present at the Buea high court, to support the Religious leaders.
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Following what the SDF party says is government's intransigence to end illegal arrest, torture and detention of Anglophones in the North West and South West regions, the party has created a Commission to investigate right violations by security forces in the two Anglophone regions.
Clestin Djamen, National Secretary for Human Rights tells Cameroon Concord that the Biya regime has been publishing false information which the intention of circumventing the truth from the international Community. He cited the case of the 2008 Hunger strikes where the Government "lied" that the death toll was 40, whereas international rights groups claimed more than 1200 people died.
Djamen laments that many Anglophones arrested have never been put in jail. but disappeared into thin air. And the regime is trying to cover up that. He explains that the Commission will investigate and establish the real truth of the matter. The Commission will be made up of NEC members, Senators and Parliamentarians, Civil society organs, lawyers and the press.
Quizzed on the way forward after the month long probe, Djamen reveals the report will be made known the international Community for legal action to be taken against the state of Cameroon.
The SDF has never hidden its dissatisfaction with government's handling of the crisis. The atrocities of the military has condemned the party to believe government is fighting an undeclared war with anglophones. The frontline opposition party has called for sustained dialogue on the form of the state as a solution to end the imbroglio.
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The voiceless and badly treated are to receive hope soon as some lawyers come together to provide free assistance to victims of injustice in Cameroon. The initiative is that of a group of lawyers who call themselves “Avocats sans frontieres humanitaires du Cameroun”, literally, Cameroon Lawyers without Humanitarians Borders.
The team which comprises lawyers from the Cameroon Bar and the Paris Bar will provide indispensable assistance to thousands of Cameroonians detained without any trial at all.
According to Cameroon-Info.Net, the legal practitioners have created a website to facilitate the work.
“The website is one of the pillars of our strategy. Not only will it enable people file their complaints, it will also ensure a follow-up of the evolution of the files”, says Barrister Antoine Mandeng, secretary general of the association.
The association will equally educate stakeholders in the legal field on the respect of human rights.
Quoting La Nouvelle Expression, Cameroon-Info.Net reports that official statistics from the Ministry of Justice reveal that out of 25, 908 detainees, 15, 853 are still suspects while the rest have been judged and sentenced. Thus, about 61% of the detainees are suspects while the remaining 39% or so have had their fate sealed.
Several reports from rights groups have deplored the abuse of human rights by the Biya regime. Currently, several journalists and other groups of persons are in detention for reasons beyond our comprehension, given that fair trials have not been observed in most cases.
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Heavy fines and other sanctions loom over the aborigines of the West Region resident in Kumba, who joined the lot in absconding the May 20th festivities in the metropolis.
This reporter further gathered that such persons who reside within the Kumba II Sub Division were already informed before the National Day that failure to turn out for the event could earn them a fine of two crates of beer.
There is panic among those who erroneously or wilfully stayed away from this year’s celebrations, as local administrators have vowed to enforce the sanctions.
Sanctions in this light are said to have been previewed through administrative circles in the Sub Division to push for massive participation on the National Day.
Campaigns propagating sanctions on defaulters were meant to circumvent underground moves from unidentified individuals who crusaded for civil disobedience.
The threat of a fine it is reported played the trick added to multiple Government assurances of a hitch-free May 20th celebration that came to pass.
Thus, the fairly huge turnout at the Kumba City Grandstand during the festivities was largely credited to Cameroonians who hail from the West Region.
Almost all family groups in Kumba from this part of the country took part in the colourful march pass.
Their unending numbers sent some celebrating at the ceremonial ground, while those who had hoped for a general boycott groaned and murmured in vain.
For one thing, Kumba II Sub Division remains the most densely populated of the three Council areas that make up the metropolis.
Bamilekes have a force to reckon with here in terms of numbers, businesses, infrastructure and farming.
Their turn out at this year’s celebration which looked unprecedented came at the time the powers that be needed it most to enhance the drive for national unity in diversity.
Letters with administrative seals are said to have reached the different meeting groups days before the event, reason why they mobilised in their hundreds to storm the Kumba City Grandstand
Their huge presence is not unconnected with actions which the Divisional Officer for Kumba II, Piere Zedzode, initiated to get the population and schools of the Sub Division celebrate 45 years of national unity.
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Cameroon's main opposition movement, the Social Democratic Front, SDF will decide whether to pick the party chairman, John Fru Ndi or another contender to run for the 2018 Presidential election in October. This will be during the party's convention and it is one of the main fallouts of the National Executive Committee of the party which held over the weekend in Bamenda.
The Convention was due to hold in February this year but was indefinitely pushed forward. The debate whther John Fru Ndi will be contest Biya has been the talk in the past few months. With many supporters and sympathizers calling for the party's Vice President, Joshua Osih to give a new impetus to the party.
Osih himself has downplayed such comments but observers says he still remains the best option for the SDF and inspires hope and positivity in a society where party leaders have declared themselves leaders till death.
The party convention will present a golden opportunity to know whether the party will embrace change or see Fru Ndi continue with long term ambition of occupying the Etoudi house.
In the meantime, Fru Ndi has asked party officials to ensure the the party wins at least two thirds of all Council, Parliamentary and Senate seats in the 2018 elections. District chairpersons have been to go out and convince people to register for the elections. " There is no use being a NEC member if u cannot win a council in your area, " Fru Ndi said.
Winning two thirds of elective positives will be a better of the party to impose itself into the governance now obsessed by the ruling CPDM
Cameroon's main opposition movement, the Social Democratic Front, SDF will decide whether to pick the party chairman, John Fru Ndi or another contender to run for the 2018 Presidential election in October. This will be during the party's convention and it is one of the main fallouts of the National Executive Committee of the party which held over the weekend in Bamenda.
The Convention was due to hold in February this year but was indefinitely pushed forward. The debate whther John Fru Ndi will be contest Biya has been the talk in the past few months. With many supporters and sympathizers calling for the party's Vice President, Joshua Osih to give a new impetus to the party.
Osih himself has downplayed such comments but observers says he still remains the best option for the SDF and inspires hope and positivity in a society where party leaders have declared themselves leaders till death.
The party convention will present a golden opportunity to know whether the party will embrace change or see Fru Ndi continue with long term ambition of occupying the Etoudi house.
In the meantime, Fru Ndi has asked party officials to ensure the the party wins at least two thirds of all Council, Parliamentary and Senate seats in the 2018 elections. District chairpersons have been to go out and convince people to register for the elections. " There is no use being a NEC member if u cannot win a council in your area, " Fru Ndi said.
Winning two thirds of elective positives will be a better way for the party to impose itself into the governance now obsessed by the ruling CPDM
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