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Cameroon has a new military region created to cater for security needs in the west and northwest region, the state-owned CRTV has reported.
President Paul Biya signed directives reorganizing the country’s defense forces leading to the splitting into two of the former military region [Région militaire interarmées – RMIA] RMIA 2 which is based in Douala.
The new region becomes the fifth (RMIA 5) and is headquarted in capital of the northwest region Bamenda. It is to be headed by General Agha Robinson Ndong while General Julius Caesar Ellie has been appointed commander of its Gendarmerie region (RG5).
The measure is seen as a clear plan to deal with the raging Anglophone crisis that has rocked the country since October 2017. Separatists in the region continue to engage in deadly clashes with security forces.
Under the banner of the so-called Ambazonia republic, separatists are pushing a breakaway of the Anglophone regions (northwest and southwest) from French-majority Cameroon.
The government has insisted that the region remains secured and has declared the separatists terrorists. Last month, Nigeria deported about 47 separatists to Yaounde, the deportees included a known separatist leader, Julius Sisuku Ayuk Tabe.
Nigeria has also been bearing the brunt of the crisis in Cameroon with the continuing influx of refugees. The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, has reported that thousands of people have arrived in Nigeria over the past few months.
Major change: Military Region 2 is split into two. It gives birth to the military region No. 5 whose command post is in Bamenda.
Also, the army changes in the Generals:
RMIA 2 Douala : Saly Mohamadou
RMIA 5 Bamenda : Agha Robinson Ndong
12e BRIM Bertoua : Joseph Nouma.
RG 2 Douala : Toungue Elias.
RG 4 Maroua: Louba Zal Pierre.
RG 5 Bamenda : Essoh Jules Cesar.
DG Eiforces : Bitote André Patrice.
The above changes comes after more than 210 soldiers were killed this week by well-armed Ambazonia soldiers in Ambazonia. Biya's terrorists are disoriented and weakened by the Ambazonia soldiers and some Generals in Biya's army opted to resign from Ambazonia, arguing that they are ill-equipped to face our soldiers.
La Republique current has 64 army Generals. Ambazonia has only 1.
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At least five persons have been presumed to have been savagely killed around Tuesday night by some suspected Boko Haram insurgents. The attack attributed to Boko Haram took place around a small vicinity, called Assigachia, of the Mayo- Tsanaga Division of the Far North Region of Cameroon. During the night of Tuesday, around 21hrs( 20H GMT) many members of the Boko Haram insurgents,,heavily armed, attacked the vicinity of Assigachia.
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The President of the Republic of Cameroon has been aptly described as the absentee Land Lord. This is because he spends a greater chunk of his days out of Cameroon and in Switzerland in particular or sometimes in France. However his excessive bills spent in the Continental Hotel have drawn international condemnation and a lot of people can't understand how a relatively poor Country like Cameroon can allow such extravagant expenditure of the President of the Country?
Spending a walloping some of 65 million dollars( 32.5 billion Francs CFA) This walloping sum does not include what is kept monthly in the black account that carters for the payment of air tickets,chartering of planes and advertisements. This picture is negatively presented by an International Association of investigative Journalist, abbreviated using a French acronym OCCRP.
It's assumed that 855000$ was wasted to foot the bills of 50 passengers in a round ticket from Yaoundé to Geneva. Other expenses that were incurred by Paul Biya and his ballooned entourage of fifty persons include 117million Dollars. This body of investigative Journalist tagged in English as " Organized Crime and Corruption reporting project" has revealed how Paul Biya and his wife Chantal Biya waste state resources in private trips abroad, excluding the official trips.
In 2009 Paul Biya passed almost the whole year out of the Country in the Swiss Continental Hotel, often occupying the last four floors at the expense of the state of Cameroon that can't tar her roads, build bridges, state of the art hospitals as well as make life affordable as well as comfortable to the citizens. Whenever he is out or is coming back nothing even bothers him.
The train Accident that saw the death of 79 persons in Eseka including pastors and other Clergy or the ugly confrontation of the state Police, Gendarmes as well as Soldiers on the 22 of September and 1st of October 2017,reveals an unrealistic President completely cut off from the reality on the ground or an Elitist President.
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The much trumpeted Social Democratic Front convention to hold in Bamenda is threatened by a very tense sociopolitical climate heightened by threats by disgruntled as well as disenchanted youths. The people have of the entire North West and South West Regions have denounced the manipulative tendencies of John Fru Ndi and his Parliamentarians and senators.
Yes they danced and blew trumpets during the last Parliamentary and Senatorial Sessions and it still didn't bring in any results. The incessant torture, disappearances, killings, illicit incarcerations have continued without any show of restraint. The people of the two Regions that make up the Northern and Southern Zones have said John Fru Ndi can't continue to take them for a ride.
The Social Democratic Front now caught in a storm is struggling to get a secured and private ground where their convention shall hold unnoticed. This pressure mounted on John Fru Ndi is a barometer indicating how John Fru Ndi's popularity has pummeled in the North West Region and in Cameroon as a whole. As of today, the so much noise and false bravado with which he spoke on Monday and Tuesday have has been tremendously reduced.
The Social Democratic Front is in its ebbing days as militants keep distancing themselves from the party that has distanced itself from its original manifesto and ideology.
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Equatorial Guinea has gone to the United Nations’ highest court to challenge a conviction in France against its vice-president for embezzling public money from the oil-rich but impoverished west African country – on the grounds that he has diplomatic immunity.
The extraordinary dispute over the status of Teodorin Obiang, whose fleet of Bugatti and Porsche cars was towed away by police during the French investigation, is being argued over at the international court of justice in The Hague this week.
The court, which usually deals with disputes over international borders, heard submissions from French lawyers on Monday morning that the claim on behalf of Obiang, 48, whose father is president of Equatorial Guinea, should be struck out.
“France has not accepted the jurisdiction of this court under any title whatsoever to entertain those facts on which Equatorial Guinea seeks the court to rule,” the French representative, François Alabrune, told the ICJ.
The dispute erupted six years ago after France, under pressure from anti-corruption campaigners, began to move against Obiang, whose father, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has run Equatorial Guinea since 1979.
The landmark case – spearheaded by two anti-corruption NGOs, Sherpa and Transparency International – marked a turning point in France, which for a long time turned a blind eye to the families of corrupt foreign dictators buying Parisian real estate and going on luxury spending sprees.
Last October, a court in Paris tried Teodorin Obiang in absentia. He was given a three-year suspended prison sentence and a suspended fine of €30m (£26.5m) for embezzlement, money laundering, corruption and abuse of trust.
The court also demanded confiscation of assets including Obiang’s €107m mansion near the Champs-Élysées, which boasts a hammam steam bath, disco, gym, hairdressing studio, gold-plated taps and hundreds of art works.
Obiang was accused of spending more than 1,000 times his official annual salary on the six-storey mansion on Avenue Foch, one of Paris’s most exclusive streets. The house was decorated with more than €40m worth of furniture, including a €1.6m Louis XV desk, a Rodin sculpture and a dozen Fabergé eggs.
Obiang owned two Bugatti Veyrons, the most expensive and fastest street car in the world, costing about €1m each and capable of reaching 250mph. They were part of a luxury fleet that filled the garages around the cobbled courtyard of his mansion.
During the investigation, French police needed trucks to tow away 11 luxury cars worth around €5m, including a Porsche Carrera, an Aston Martin and a Mercedes Maybach. More lorries were used to clear other assets, including bottles of wine worth thousands of euros each.
Obiang’s lifestyle was in contrast with that of ordinary people in Equatorial Guinea, where more than the half the population lives on less than €1.65 a day, despite the country being one of Africa’s top oil producers.
Obiang’s lawyer said he would appeal against the decision in the French courts. In the meantime, Equatorial Guinea lodged a complaint with the ICJ.
Equatorial Guinea maintains that not only was the Vienna convention, which conferred diplomatic immunity on Obiang, breached, but French officials failed to uphold the diplomatic status of a building that the country maintains is its embassy in Paris.
In 2016, the UN judges in The Hague urged France to ensure the protection of the diplomatic mission in Paris, but sidestepped Equatorial Guinea’s request for Obiang’s trial to be halted.
Relations between the two countries have furthered deteriorated after Equatorial Guinea’s foreign minister, Agapito Mba Mokuy, said an attempted coup in December had been hatched on French soil, although he said the French authorities had “nothing to do with” it.
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In the highest interest of peace and security of our people whose representatives were denied a right to raise a finger or voice in both Houses of Parliament regarding their plight, our God fearing people should not fall into another dead trap called "Senate Elections" with their eyes wide open.
In today's Cameroon, it has been proven time and again that SENATORS represent the PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC not the people. Let those who are seeking to become Senators therefore, seek APPOINTMENT from the PRESIDENT and not VOTES from our people they have engaged in a systematic SELLOUT and elimination.
It is incumbent on all of us to make sure that Senate elections exclusively organized to keep the rich and wicked minority in power while maintaining the poor and marginalized majority in permanent poverty do not hold.
If allowed to hold, this elections will continue to legalize pain and poverty in Ambaland, while undermining peace and prosperity throughout British Southern Cameroons.
Before you elect to participate in this election, please, first ask yourself, how many more people must they rape, maim, abduct, kidnap or kill before you stop endorsing their selfish agenda over our desperate masses?
Southern Cameroons must be free for all.
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