Politics

Its really sad for a well informed elite from the North West Province and the South West Province that has been forcely assimilated to La Republique du Cameroun in a dark scene with short sigted Policians who needed just Positions and not Responsibilities.
We are all Aware of the Clear differences between the British Southern Cameroons and the La Republique du Cameroon.

We are all Aware of the Different independence Date of the TWO States.

We are all Aware of the Referandum that was Pioneered by the United Nations with Complicity of President Ahmadou Ahidjo and who deceitfully used some Southern Cameroons to facilitate the Annexation.
We all Know the Federal Plan that gave La Republique du Cameroun VETO Powers over the Anglophones in the governing of the Federality Systems.

We are all Aware of the unsolicited Decree of President Biya to single handedly with a click of some unpatriotic, corrupt and short sighted Southern Cameroons Elites to ammend the Constitution from Federalism to United Republic to Republic as at this time.
What is strange for Cameroonians to understand that the the claim of the Southern Cameroons is just and has been proven by all legal instruments and institutions?

Where the Lawyers of the British Southern Cameroonians apprentices to their Law that its now that they are raising their voices with tears?

Its time to understand that British Cameroon TOP Ranking Lawyers and Politicians of the CPDM and SDF Party in Cameroon are accomplices of KEYED Padlock hindering the Peaceful Liberation of Southern Cameroons from La Republique du Cameroon.
La Republique du Cameroun and the British Southern Cameroons are two States of different cultures and histories. The Politicians, Lawyers, Civil Society, Teachers, Businessman, Students, Doctors, Military and Security Officers fron Southern Cameroons have been suffering from unpredicted menances, touture, frustration, inhuman degradation, abuse of human and property rights, subordination in Official responsibilities, Extinction and Exploitation of Resources in Southern Cameroons Resources without Accountability, Oppressed in their liberty of Expression; OH MY GOD!!!

Time is now, Nothing Leaves my Bedroom without my permission and conscent. Our Politicians have failed us; Its time to empower Emerging Leaders and Politicians. Support does not go with Words but Action.
We all Know what is happening in Cameroon NOW. President Paul Biya of La Republique was harrassed in Switzerland by Cameroonians in Diaspora who are far more living happily than US; Why not you Feeling the Pains in Cameroon.

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Francis Ebongue

17.Oct.2016

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Zimbabwe is in flux. There are regular protests, especially in the capital, over currency and food shortages, unemployment, and alleged government corruption and mismanagement.

Observers say an effective political solution may not be soon in coming.

President Robert Mugabe, 92, and his ruling ZANU-PF party have been in power for 36 years. But the party is breaking into factions, and at least one former member, onetime Vice President Joyce Mujuru, has formed her own party, Zimbabwe People First. The longtime opposition Movement for Democratic Change has new competitors, including more than a dozen new parties and youth-driven protest movements inspired by social media. All are preparing for national elections in 2018.

Participants in a recent symposium at the Washington-based U.S. Institute of Peace looked at some of the challenges facing Zimbabwe, and they agreed that its citizens and the international community alike would favor a "soft landing" in a post-Mugabe future.

Military is 'really central'

Symposium participant Alex Vines, head of the Africa Program at the London-based policy institute Chatham House, said the West has become complacent and has lost contact with the military and with different factions within the ruling party.

"If we get into a really uncertain and unpredictable security situation in Zimbabwe," he said, "it will be the military that will have a role in managing that process. ... I believe the military will play a key role ... in whatever happens, as a kingmaker in whatever coalition or inclusive political entity that might come up [between] the opposition and parts that have split from ZANU-PF. The military is really central here."

Symposium delegates also urged the U.S. and its allies to revisit sanctions on Zimbabwe targeting more than 80 people and 50 groups linked to human rights violations, corruption and mismanagement. They said the sanctions list was outdated and included government critics like Mujuru.

Vines said many Zimbabweans blame the sanctions for their suffering, rather than the government.

"I do believe that ... ZANU-PF and Robert Mugabe won the propaganda battle about sanctions, and I'm surprised at how many well-educated Zimbabweans from civil society and others blame sanctions partly for economic woes and not economic policies," he said. "It has been used as a fig leaf to hide financial mismanagement and other problems. That was one of the drivers for the European Union and Australia to significantly reduce their targeted measures on Zimbabwe to Mugabe, the first lady and Zimbabwe Defense Industries, and I do believe the U.S. and Canada ... need to [revise their outdated sanctions] lists very carefully."

Role of sanctions

Also taking part in the seminar was Johnnie Carson, former U.S. assistant for secretary of state for African affairs under the Obama administration. He said the U.S. government had considered lifting sanctions in order to encourage democratic reforms. But he suggested that the U.S. maintain them as a way to encourage democratization and good governance in Zimbabwe although those efforts have not succeeded so far.

"In 2010 and 2011," he said, "we worked very closely with the South Africans looking for solutions ... and said ... that we, and I, would have been willing to do everything possible to pull down the sanctions if the Zimbabweans were willing to do one or two significant things in the runup to [the 2013] elections, [such as] invite the Carter Center, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and the Commonwealth to be monitors for the elections. ... We must continue to probe and look for opportunities, but recognize there are times we don't have partners, and times when the environment does not permit."

Carson said U.S. ambassadors to Africa should continue to reach out to Zimbabwe's business community — an idea also backed by Whitney Schneidman, former deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs and current senior associate at the Washington-based law firm of Covington and Berling. He noted the efforts of former U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton to strengthen ties with the country's private sector last year.

The Corporate Council on Africa was invited to send a trade mission to Zimbabwe and a reverse trade mission from Zimbabwe came to the U.S.," Schneidman said. "This activity should be continued. A delegation from the President's Advisory Committee on Doing Business in Africa could conduct a fact-finding visit to the country."

Strive for more stability

Schneidman said the Mugabe government should take action to enhance stability in the runup to elections and a new administration. He said the government had proposed a land compensation fund for both black and white farmers who have been displaced as owners by administration supporters. It is also considering long-term leases that would allow farmers to invest in fallow land.

Schneidman also urged continued efforts by Harare to improve relations with the World Bank and other international financial institutions.

Participants in the Washington panel said Zimbabwe had lost the interest of some policymakers in the West. But they said the country remained an important player in southern Africa politics and trade, and that state collapse and a worsening refugee crisis could destabilize the whole region.

VOA

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Rita Akana

16.Oct.2016

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Recently Cameroons Minister of State, Minister of Justice and keeper of the Seals, Laurent Esso has represented President Paul Biya in two major international events. The first was on September 27, 2016 during the Installation ceremony of the re-elected President of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba. In fact Laurent Esso was the only Minister to represent his President, because other presidents sent their Prime Ministers. The Second event is the ongoing Summit on Maritime Security and Development in Africa in Togo. Again Laurent Esso is heading a Cameroonian delegation in Togo including foreign Affairs Minister Le Jeune Mbella Mbella.

These two outings of Laurent Esso, popularly called ‘the heart of the Nation’ have left many speculating that Mr Biya could be playing his card once again. That Cameroon has a Prime Minister Philemon Yang who is head of government and who on these occasions has been bypassed for his subordinate is a warning signal that Etoudi could be preparing a bombshell. But can Mr Biya show his cards openly to Cameroonians?

The Head of State is known for his game plan, he doesn’t want people to speculate on what he will do next. Is Mr Biya trying to get public opinion about Laurent Esso being the next president of is he trying to tell Yang Philemon that his time as Prime Minister is over? Is he ready to relinquish power to Littoral at the expense of his brothers of the South and Muslims in the North who have both being fighting a cold war over who take over after Biya?

These answered questions only keep Cameroonians wondering what Mr Biya is up to. The head of state has spent over 28 days now out of the country. He left of September 16, 2016 to prepare for the 71st General Assembly of the United Nations. Since then the whereabouts of Mr Biya is not known.Some sources say he returned to his hotel suit at the Swiss based Continental hotel.

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Prince Nfor Hanson

16.Oct.2016

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The long-awaited election of the SDF Littoral Regional Chairman billed for Sunday, October 16 promises to be an event filled with political intrigues.

First, three of the four candidates pitted in the race find faults with Senator Jean Tsomelou, head of the team organising the election.

The trio – Celestin Djamen, Abel Elimbi Lobe and John Ndangle Kumase – also claim that Tsomelou’s team is not neutral in the election.

Djamen, Elimbi and Kumase are complaining that Senator Tsomelou and his team, assigned by the SDF National Executive Committee, NEC, to reorganise the party in the Littoral, are supporting Hon. Jean Michel Nintcheu, who is gunning for re-election.

Djamen and Elimbi have gone public with the allegations, and are insisting that the Tsomelou-led team is biased, hence will not be able to organise a free and fair election on October 16.

For his part, Tsomelou said he thinks Djamen and Elimbi in particular, are raising the allegations as a pretext because they know they cannot win the election as they lack support in the filed or among the electorates.

“I have closely observed the situation in the field across the Littoral Region during the reorganisation of the basic organs of the SDF that we have carried out so far.

From my observation, I do not see Djamen’s list getting more than two votes, including his own, at the election for a new bureau of the Littoral SDF,” said Tsomelou

As for Elimbi, he said, “I do not see his list getting more than one vote and that one will be his own vote.

All they know to do in an election is to make noise over TV and radio, instead of working in the field to win the support of militants or delegates to the Elective Regional Conference.”

Referee Celebrates Team’s Victory?

When The Post asked Djamen why he and Elimbi seem to disagree with Senator Tsomelou and other members of the NEC team, he insisted that the Senator and his team have taken sides with Nintcheu in the election and deserve no respect.

Asked if he has evidence to substantiate his claim, Djamen mentioned a number of things that he alleged happened at an election organised at Penja, to choose the Mungo SDF Divisional Coordination.

According to Djamen, when the NEC team declared the list of Nintcheu’s candidate as the winner, Tsomelou joined Nintcheu on the floor in dancing to celebrate the so-called victory.

“I was there. Many SDF militants were there. We all saw what happened. How could a referee join the President of a club at end of a match, to celebrate victory? This was a scandal,” Djamen told The Post.

He also alleged that even the food that members of the NEC team ate in Penja on that day was provided by Nintcheu’s niece.

“The truth is that Tsomelou, who started off well in his assignment to the Littoral by trying to be neutral, has, unfortunately, become partial.

As for the other members of the team, most of them were bought over by Nintcheu right from the very beginning,” Said Djamen.

Smear Campaign

It should be recalled that when NEC assigned Senator Tsomelou in 2014 to take over the task of reorganisng the Littoral SDF from the National Organising Secretary, Ferdinand Asapngu, he ran into trouble with Nintcheu’s camp when he refused to dance to the camp’s music.

Apparently, the Nintcheu camps spread a rumour that Tsomelou, who is the SDF West Regional Chairm, had been banqueting with the CPDM in the West to the detriment of the SDF.

By then, the camp against Nintcheu in the Littoral with Djamen, Kumase and Elimbi as frontline members dismissed the allegation spread against Tsomelou as spurious and malicious.

Interestingly, the two camps have now changed position on the issue. While the Nintcheu camp is now hailing Tsomelou, the opposition camp is calling him names.

Nintcheu Won’t Be Candidate

As the mudslinging intensifies ahead of the October 16 election so does the controversy as to whether or not Hon. Nintcheu can run for re-election.

There is also a controversy over the registration fee of FCFA 400,000 per candidate.

As for the registration fee, which Senator Tsomelou is insisting that each candidate must pay, Djamen swore to The Post on October 7 that he will not pay a franc.

“There is no NEC resolution which requires a candidate to pay a franc as registration fee. Tsomelou wants to grab money from us to pay his hotel bills.

Why did he accept the assignment that NEC gave him if he had no money to take care of his hotel bills? Let him get money from Nintcheu as some members of the NEC Commission have been doing,” Djamen said.

As for Nintcheu’s candidature, Tsomelou insists that NEC’s decision to dissolve the Littoral Regional Bureau of the SDF headed by Nintcheu did not bar him from running for re-election.

“The NEC decision was not a sanction against Hon. Nintcheu,” Tsomelou claimed in a chat with The Post.

But then, Kumase, Elimbi and Djamen contend, based on their interpretation of Article 18.8 of the Constitution of the SDF that NEC applied to dissolve the Nintcheu-led bureau, that the sanction disqualifies him from running for re-election.

Djamen swore to The Post that Nintcheu will not be allowed to be a candidate at the October 16 election, though he did not say how he plans to stop Nintcheu from running at the election.

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Rita Akana

16.Oct.2016

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Boko Haram has freed 21 of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militant group

in April 2014 in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok, the government said on Thursday.

Around 270 girls were taken from their school in Chibok in the northeastern Borno state, where the Islamist militants have waged a seven-year insurgency to try to set up an Islamic state.

"The release of the girls ... is the outcome of negotiations between the administration and Boko Haram brokered by the International Red Cross and the Swiss government," a presidency statement said. "The negotiations will continue."

Nigeria will continue its military operations against Boko Haram, the country's information minister said. He also said Nigeria did not swap any Boko Haram prisoners for the release of the girls, who would be brought to the capital Abuja later on Thursday. 

Here are 10 key facts about the Chibok schoolgirls and the Islamist militant group Boko Haram:

Since 2009, Boko Haram has waged an insurgency to carve out an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria that has killed at least 15,000 people and displaced more than two million.

The most high-profile attack took place on April 14, 2014, when Boko Haram kidnapped 276 school girls, from a secondary school in Chibok in northeast Borno state. About 50 of the girls escaped in the initial melee but 219 were captured.

Nigeria's government and military, then under the command of former president Goodluck Jonathan, faced heavy criticism for their handling of the incident, with towns and cities across the nation witnessing protests.

The kidnappings prompted a strong social media reaction, with the phrase #bringbackourgirls tweeted around 3.3 million times by mid-May 2014, and the campaign which followed backed by U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama.

Hope for the girls was briefly raised in April 2015 when the Nigerian military announced it had rescued 200 girls and 93 women from the Sambisa forest, northeast of Chibok. It was later revealed that the Chibok girls were not among them.

One of the Chibok girls, Amina Ali, was rescued in May. Held for months by the Nigerian government, she told her mother that the girls were starved and resorted to eating raw maize, and that some had died in captivity, suffered broken legs or gone deaf after being too close to explosions.

Boko Haram in August published a video showing footage of dozens of the Chibok girls, and a masked man saying some of their classmates had been killed in air strikes. In the video, unidentified bodies could be seen on the ground.

About 2,000 girls and boys have been kidnapped by Boko Haram since the beginning of 2014, according to Amnesty International, which says they are used as cooks, sex slaves, fighters and even suicide bombers.

Boko Haram used 44 children to carry out suicide attacks in West Africa last year, up from four in 2014, with some as young as eight, mostly girls, detonating bombs in schools and markets, according to the U.N. children's agency UNICEF.

Boko Haram, which last year pledged allegiance to Islamic State, controlled a swathe of land in northeast Nigeria, around the size of Belgium, at the start of 2015 but was pushed out by Nigerian and regional troops, which are now in a final push to defeat the militants.

Reuters

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Rita Akana

14.Oct.2016

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Barrister Roland ABENG

We need an official release from the Minister saying that the OHADA law will be translated into English.
I would have loved the news to come from the President of the Bar not the president of the General Assembly. 

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Rita Akana

14.Oct.2016

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