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Biya grants audience to French Minister of Finance and Public Accounts , Mr. Michel Sapin , The Frenchman also met with the Minister of Finance (MINFI)Ousmane Mey, and the Minister of Economy , Planning and Regional Development ( MINEPAT) , Louis Paul Motaze .
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on the 3rd Agreement Debt Reduction and Development , the estimated amount could reach nearly 400 billion FCFA according to the French Embassy in Yaounde.
Franco-Cameroon relationship has affected Cameroon’s capacity and willingness to develop into a true democracy capable of enacting the reforms necessary for the protection of human rights for all Came roonians. While the extent of France’s involvement in Cameroon’s current politic s permits France to benefit from the arrangement, it also impedes possibilities fo r reform by strengthening leadership that stands to benefit from t he status quo.
In addition to exemplifying France’s ec onomic interests in Africa, Cameroon presents a strong instance of French inte rest in using Africa to advance the primacy of the French langua ge. As has been posited by critics and admirers of French policy in Africa alike, France’s former colonies in Africa have played a singular role in the promotion of the French language, embodied in the concept of the francophonie.
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President Idris Deby of Chad recently sent an emissary to Yaounde. The Chadian Minister of Finance and Budget, Alamine Bourma-Treye was received on Thursday 7th April 2016 at the Unity Palace by President Paul Biya.
State radio and television reported that after a 90-minutes discussion with President Biya, the Chadian envoy told reporters he was bearing a sealed message from the Chadian President Idris Deby Itno to his Cameroonian counterpart.
The Idris Deby envoy and Biya held discussions on the ongoing war against the Nigerian Islamic sect, Boko Haram and the forth coming elections in Chad. Deby needs the support of all French surrogates in the Sub Saharan region to declare his intention to run for president.
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Reports reaching us from Cameroonian blogger SOLOMON AMABO is that Kah Walla and militants of the Movement for Cameroon's Renaissance, MRC, were picked up April 8, 2016 as they staged a protest demonstration to halt rumored clandestine plans for the modification of the constitution and to demand the provision of water and electricity.
A statement from CPP Secretariat said she was arrested at the GMI office in Tshinga where she went to inquire about the arrest earlier of scores of demonstrators.
The reasons for her arrest are not known. At the time of filing in this report, Kah Walla and those arrested have been transferred to the judicial police station where sources say they have been charged with inciting 'insurrection and rebellion'
It is reported that Yaounde authorities tried to halt todays demonstrations in vain.
Tentative list of those arrested
1 Kah Wall
2 Allain Fogue
3 Okala Ebode
4 Balaba Grace.
5 Djabo
6 Mougnol
7 Ernesto Yene.
For more on this developing story please visit SOLOMON AMABO'S BLOG
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Cameroon—Boko Haram fighters have kidnapped and conscripted thousands of young men and women since 2013. Soldiers from a regional force composed of fighters from Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon continue to liberate captives by the hundreds during an operation to flush the terrorists from their remaining hideouts, but those formerly held say their struggles are far from over.
Hamidou Mohamat, 21, says he was seized from the Nigerian town of Kumshe three years ago.
Boko Haram forced him and his three brothers to join them, and those who tried to escape were killed, he says. The fighters attacked schools and markets, and ordered him and others to transport stolen food and goods to Boko Haram camps in the bush. He says the militants attacked farmers, cattle ranchers and businesses.
Mohamat arrived at the Minawao refugee camp in northern Cameroon unarmed, and is cooperating with the military.
The military says anyone caught with weapons is arrested and charged before a military tribunal. But others who turn themselves in, as Mohamat did, are held in special camps for investigation. VOA was not allowed to visit those camps.
Former captives say they are being met with stigma and suspicion.
Eighteen-year-old Yazan Imra came to Minawao after regional troops raided the Boko Haram camp where she had been held for two years.
Boko Haram fighters forced them and their children to the camp, she says, where the boys were used as domestic workers and taught how to operate guns and explosives. The women and girls were used as sex slaves and forced to cook for the fighters.
She wiped tears from her face as she spoke, and held her crying 16-month-old baby in her arms. She says she doesn't know who the father is.
Alain Myogo, Cameroon's senior military official in the area, says traumatized refugees are getting counseling and other special attention.
He says the military is working with humanitarian groups to take care of their health needs and provide them with food. The global objective, he says, is to free all those who have been held in bondage by Boko Haram and bring peace to their communities.
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A new report reveals former US House speaker Dennis Hastert had sexually abused teenage boys at school in the 1970s. The Chicago Tribune report says at least four people have made what law enforcement sources described as credible allegations of sexual abuse against Hastert. The accusers are men and their allegations pertain to the period when they were teenagers and Hastert was their high school coach in Chicago.
The newspaper said it has identified three of the four men. One of them, who was a wrestling team equipment manager, died two decades ago. Two others were popular student-athletes. The Illinois Republican has reportedly said in a court file that he "apologizes for his misconduct that occurred decades ago" and is "overwhelmed by the guilt."
The politician is accused of paying hush money to some victims to whitewash the scandal. Hastert, who had already stood trial, is scheduled to be sentenced at the end of this month. The 74-year-old became the longest-serving Republican speaker who retired from Congress in 2007 after running the chamber for eight years.
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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir says he will step down by 2020 and has no plans to run for another term in office. “In 2020, there will be a new president and I will be an ex-president,” Bashir said in an interview with the BBC Arabic Service on Wednesday, adding that his job is “exhausting” and that his current term would be his last.
Bashir has been in power since a 1989 coup, and has been elected president three times since then. He faces International Criminal Court (ICC) charges of genocide and war crimes in the 2003 conflict in the western region of Darfur.
The Sudanese president, who was last re-elected in April 2015, dismissed the ICC tribunal for him as “politicized” and claimed that the accusations leveled against him by the court have increased his popularity among the Sudanese people and paved the way for his victory in the elections last year.
Bashir also denied New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) allegations of abuses perpetrated by the Sudanese government forces in recent clashes in the country’s Darfur.
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