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Amnesty International accuse Cameroonian security forces for unlawfully killing dozens of civilians, torturing others and accountable for forced disappearances of others in mass arrests of suspects in the fight against the Boko Haram Islamic sect.
A report published Thursday accuses forces operating in Cameroon's Far North region, bordering north-east Nigeria, of crimes under international law.
The London-based group says Cameroon's government and security chiefs have not responded to its requests for information about the allegations and missing people and its calls for investigations.
The Associated Press has quoted refugees who fled across the border into Nigeria as saying that Cameroonian troops were indiscriminately killing civilians and looting and destroying property.
Amnesty says it interviewed more than 160 people including victims, witnesses and a senior military officer during three trips to Cameroon in 2015.
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Six suspected Boko Haram members, including a senior leader, were arrested after a local vigilante group found them in Lagos, Nigeria.
They were rounded up in various parts of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, after leaving Maiduguri in Borno state, headquarters of the militant Islamist movement that has terrorized Nigeria since 2009. Alhaji Mustapha Mohammed, leader of the Lagos Civilian Joint Task Force, said the suspects were turned over Monday to Nigeria's Department of State Services after their capture Friday. He added that the alleged Boko Haram members were found in different places around Lagos, looking unkempt and showing signs of starvation.
The group of six fled to Lagos to avoid arrest in Borno. Their identities allegedly match those on a list, distributed by the military, of Nigeria's 100 most wanted terrorists, the Nigerian newspaper the Guardian said.
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The Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals Laurent Esso, says Cameroon Bar Council has always been involved in the Revision of the Penal Code since 2008.
In a press Conference in Yaounde Tuesday,Mr Esso says the Bar only sparked Sterile Polemics which will lead the country nowhere. But according to the Bar president GNIE Jackson K, the present Bar was never consulted and that some of the original articles as submitted in 2011 are nowhere to be found. He says the new Penal Code will meet up with evolution of the wolrd, with individual behavior and society,takes care of general interest and modern Republic.
Laurent ESSO failed to tell Cameroonians especially the poor how or where they will get money when they have not paid rents,the Justice minister who came under fire with wide spread criticism also failed to look into pertinent points such as Adultery and bride price raised by lawyers which they say are ambiguous .
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The atmosphere of peace and security in the East region of Cameroon has been saluted by the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defence in Charge of the National Gendarmerie, Jean Baptiste Bokam.
He was speaking in Abong Mbang during a working visit to the region. The Gendarmerie boss said the peace and security in the region is a result of the effective collaboration between the local population, traditional authorities, forces of law and order and administrative authorities.
Jean Baptiste Bokam said government has invested substantially in vehicles, motorcycles and human resources to combat all forms of aggression against the peace and security of the country.
He called on the populations to collaborate with and report any suspicious moves to administrative authorities and forces of law and order.
He called for more vigilance amongst the population, the vigilante groups and forces of law n order to check the resurgence of crime.
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The new Cameroon Penal Code under review could land social media users in courts. It does not only seek to place an eagle eye on the social media, but to criminalize users who criticize the 34-year-old regime for its abuse of power. Threats according to the code, are not clearly defined.
At the moment, Cameroon still applies the 1990 laws on social communications that regulate the old media. Perhaps, Communications scholars who drafted the 1990 media laws could not predict nor explain the rise of a more powerful new media that would challenge the authoritarian press.
And considering how brutal the rogue states could be, it may be wise for us to start freezing our fingers on keyboards.
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Njonga Bernard, former president of ACDIC and the leader of CRAC political party and a seasoned agricultural engineer,is leading a protest in front of the ministry of livestock fisheries and animal industry in Yaounde demanding the immediate reopening of Fowl markets so that Poultry farmers could trade with customers.
This comes after a release by APF,Alliance for Progressive Forces,led by Alice SADIO ,calling on the Government to release some protesters arrested last June as well as reopen markets and compensate Poultry farmers.
Bernard Njonga was arrested on June 30 and later released.
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