Politics
Abdallah Adamou, the man widely believed to have negotiated with Boko Haram for the release of the Vice Prime Minister’s wife and other foreign hostages held by the Nigerian Islamic sect has been arrested by Cameroon’s secret service and taken to an unknown destination.
Abdullah Adamou reportedly contributed to the released of the Moulin Fournier family from France whose seven members were kidnapped in Dabanga on February 19th, 2014, two Italian priests; Rev. Giampaolo Marta and Rev. Gianantonio Allegri and Canadian clergy, Gilberte Bussiere, abducted on the night of the 4th and 5th of April 2014 and released on May 31st, 2014 around the Amchide locality in the Far North region. He was also a key man in the deal that freed 10 Chinese kidnapped in Waza in May 2014 and released on October the 10th alongside 17 abducted Cameroonians in Kolofata, freed on the 27th of July 2014.
A journalist with L’Oeil du Sahel who is very experienced in intelligence reporting revealed relations between the regime in Yaounde and Abdullah Adamou had significantly worsened in recent months and he was now suspected of collusion with Boko Haram. We understand his passport was first withdrawn when the SDF Chairman Ni John Fru Ndi openly challenged the CPDM regime to make public the Boko Haram negotiator. Two other relatives of Abdallah Adamou resident in Amchide were arrested on the 16th of March 2016.
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The Cameroon Football Federation aka FECAFOOT has issued a motion of support to the Head of State, President Paul Biya calling on the 83 year old dictator to run for president in the upcoming presidential elections in Cameroon. The Cameroon football governing body held its general assembly meeting for the first time in its history out of the nation's capital, Yaounde.
Sports commentators who traveled to Buea, the capital of the South West region wondered aloud that the association has been politicized and now functions as an auxiliary wing of the ruling CPDM party. In today's conference in Buea, FECAFOOT made a dramatic U turn and extended the mandate of the Cameroon Professional Football League for another one year period claiming "due to the state of unpreparedness by the federation for any election and also to keep with General Pierre Semengue,who they said is their father".
The mafia leadership announced that tickets for this Saturday encounter against the Bafana Bafana will be on sale from Wednesday this week. They range from 3000,5000,10000,15000 and 50000 FCFA respectively.
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- Cham Victor Bama in Buea
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After several hours of fighting, the Cameroonian army successfully freed twelve persons held by Boko Haram militants in the town of Tchabal located in the Adamawa region. The elements of the 31 Mechanized Infantry Division also routed twenty kidnappers. The Cameroonian hostages were kidnapped in Tchabal-Naboul, Tchabal-Mounguel and Saltaka villages in the department of Vina in the Adamawa region.
The twelve people released included men, a woman and a teenage girl. The army also seized nine boxes of weapons of war, a Kalashnikov, amulets, Indian hemp and machetes. The hostage-takers were stuck in the Faro Park area between the region of Adamawa and the North. Two kidnappers were killed in the fighting while many of them were wounded but managed to escape.
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- Ebong Peter and Sama Ernest
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Italian President Sergio Mattarella has left Cameroon after a four-day official visit to the country. President Paul Biya accompanied the Italian head of state, Sergio Mattarella to the Nsimalen International airport on Sunday 20 March 2016, for the farewell ceremony to mark the end of the state visit to Cameroon.
The cooperation ties between the two countries was reaffirmed in a joint statement that was read at the Nsimalen International Lounge. President Mattarella was very elated and confident in the solidity of the economic, cultural and diplomatic ties between his country and Cameroon.
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The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Front party, NI John FRU NDI has told the press that he is ready to take arms in a civil war if President Paul Biya calls for anticipated elections. Mr. FRU NDI said “If he anticipates elections he is calling for civil war and when the civil war comes, I will fight because I am a shooter”.
He was speaking in Cameroons economic capital, Douala during a visit paid to the family of late Monique KOUMATEKE whose controversial death sparked outrage in Douala and worldwide.
NI John FRU NDI personally handed over bags of Irish potatoes, meat and undisclosed money in an envelope.
The SDF chairman after extending condolence from the party, used the opportunity to decry the bad states of Cameroon hospitals which he says are as bad as the regime itself.
The frontline leading opposition party leader called on Cameroonian authorities to take their work seriously.
It was also an occasion for the SDF chairman to call on Biya not to only declare war and live in another man’s land, but should be on the ground.
Observers say the massive attendance within a short notice at the MBOPPI residence of MOKUM MBAH,husband of late Monique ,is an indication that FRU NDI atill has followers.
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- NFOR Hanson NCHANJI
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The six nations that make up the Central African Economic and Monetary Community wrapped up their eighth annual “CEMAC Days” event with a dismal assessment: Central Africa is failing its efforts to achieve regional integration.
CEMAC consists of Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Central African Republic.The regional bloc was formed in 1994. Since then, CEMAC President Pierre Moussa said, little has been achieved to improve daily lives in the region.
He said central African states have been working at regional integration since they gained independence in the 1960s but are still not able to ensure the free movement of people and goods. This has kept the countries among the least developed in Africa. He said member nations are preoccupied by self-interest and a belief that each state can develop on its own. He thinks that is the major obstacle to integration. He also cited security issues as keeping the region from concentrating on economic development.
The CEMAC chief offered a dismal report card: 30 percent of people in the region go hungry, he said, while 70 percent live on less than $1 a day.
Experts say the conflict in the Central African Republic and the regional spillover of the Boko Haram insurgency have diverted attention from development.
Ambitious plans to create a regional airline, to build roads linking regional capitals and to create a regional stock exchange have remained just that: plans and aspirations.
Only Cameroon and Gabon have started issuing biometric passports, despite a January 2014 deadline.
The region is not yet a visa-free zone. So far only Cameroon and Chad allow their citizens to travel between the two countries without visas, following a bilateral agreement.
Member states have however reached agreements on reduction of customs duties of up to 70 percent for some basic goods like sugar and farm produce.
Besides CEMAC, the region is also part of a larger economic bloc, the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). ECCAS shares many of the same objectives as CEMAC and also includes Angola, Burundi and Sao Tome and Principe.
Gabonese analyst and integration expert Emmanuel Bimbo said there has been a misallocation and duplication of resources.
"The impact of this overlapping scheme is negative because since they are working on the same program, it means that they are wasting resources and time. The region is not advancing too well as the other sub regions of the continent. They have to put in practice what the heads of state have decided. The objective of the African Union is to move to one economic community for the continent around 2028,” said Bimbo.
Economic growth last year for the six CEMAC member states did not top three percent, a disappointment compared to the six percent growth that was forecast.
(Moki Edwin Kindzeka)
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