Monthly Archives: October 2018

French Cameroun: Police arrest dozens amid anti-government protests

29, October 2018

French Cameroun: Police arrest dozens amid anti-government protests 0

An official in Cameroon says anti-riot police have arrested at least two dozen people who staged peaceful protests Saturday against the re-election of President Paul Biya.

Territorial administration minister Paul Atanga Nji said among the arrested is a lawyer who represented opposition candidate Maurice Kamto who said he won the Oct. 7 election.

Nji said the government wouldn’t tolerate acts to undermine Cameroon’s security as it prepares to inaugurate 85-year-old Biya for his seventh term in the coming week or so. Cameroon’s constitutional council declared Biya’s win with 71 percent of the votes followed by Kamto with 14 percent.

The government on Friday announced that it had banned all protests and public demonstrations.

Hundreds gathered Saturday and promised to continue demonstrations until Biya, who has led since 1982, leaves power.

Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Professor shot dead in Southern Cameroons

28, October 2018

Professor shot dead in Southern Cameroons 0

Gunmen have killed a linguistics professor in Cameroon’s volatile English-speaking Northwest region, hit by a bloody separatist campaign and a brutal security crackdown, a university official said Friday.

Paul Kuban Mbufong was shot dead on Thursday while going to work in the University of Bamenda, the institution’s rector, Emmanuel Suh Cheo, said in a statement.

“He was killed by unidentified attackers who followed him to the place where he tried to hide” behind a nearby town hall, Cheo said, calling it a “macabre act”.

University staff said the murder of the academic, who was also in charge of administration, bore the hallmarks of the “Amba boys,” or separatists fighting for an independent English-speaking state called Ambazonia.

The two anglophone regions in western Cameroon are the site of an uprising by armed separatists, who have also called for a boycott of local schools. They argue the French-language education system penalises English-speaking students.

Since the start of the new term in September, insurgents have killed one principal, mutilated a teacher and attacked several high schools.

The violence, which erupted last year, has claimed the lives of at least 420 civilians, 175 members of the security forces and an unknown number of separatists, according to the International Crisis Group (ICG) think-tank.

AFP

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Yaounde’s days as reliable U.S. partner may be numbered

28, October 2018

Yaounde’s days as reliable U.S. partner may be numbered 0

The re-election this week of Cameroon’s President Paul Biya — in power since 1982 — could be bad news, not just for Cameroon and the region, but for the United States.

Cameroon for a long time was regarded as a paragon of stability in a part of the world too often marked by insecurity, civil wars and coups. During the Cold War, the country remained close to France, which served French political and economic interests while also suiting the United States, which appreciated French dominance in the region as a barrier to Soviet influence, not to mention Cameroon’s status as a modest but stable oil producer.

More recently, in 2013, Cameroon emerged as a valuable counterterrorism partner when the Boko Haram insurgency spilled over from neighboring Nigeria. Cameroon’s military joined the fight alongside regional militaries and with the backing of France and the United States, which boosted security assistance to the country, according to USAID data (the level of aid has since dropped), although as many as 300 U.S. soldiers remain deployed to the country to support and train the Cameroonian military. Cameroon also benefits from French security assistance (in 2013, Cameroon played a key role in France’s military intervention in the Central African Republic as a logistical hub and port of entry). Bolstered by outside help, the Cameroonian security forces have proven remarkably effective.

The problem is that under Biya, the Cameroonian government is rapidly becoming more authoritarian and bloody-minded, making insecurity worse, rather than better. The country’s days as a reliable partner seem numbered.

In the fight against Boko Haram, the Cameroonian military has racked up a deplorable record of human rights abuses committed against civilians in the name of counterterrorism, including abuses committed by the American-trained Rapid Intervention Brigade. This summer, videos emerged of Cameroonian forces killing civilians, including particularly shocking footage of an execution of women and children. One of the women was shot with a baby strapped to her back, which was also killed.

Cameroon’s harsh tactics might be working, at least in the short term: Violence committed by Boko Haram has declined, according to data collected by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. History, however, suggests that Cameroonian forces are only sowing the seeds of future conflict. The bloodshed, moreover, increasingly is overshadowed by a much more dangerous conflict that is entirely of the Cameroonian government’s making: A violent insurgency in the country’s English-speaking regions, known as Ambazonia, a vestige of British rule over a portion of the country after Britain and France took the country from Germany at the end of World War I.

The conflict has been “decades in the making,” ever since 1972 (before Biya), when Cameroon’s government abandoned federalism and tried to integrate the once British-governed regions into a centralized state without taking steps to protect the rights of anglophones, heed their interests or ensure their enjoyment of a proportionate share of benefits and opportunities. Thanks largely to heavy-handed repression under Biya, people who might once have protested peacefully have now taken up arms, to which the government has responded with mounting violence. The entire crisis, it must be stressed, was entirely avoidable, as at any point since 1972 the country’s leaders might have found ways to accommodate better their anglophone communities.

Under Biya, Cameroon is on track to become weaker and less stable, and therefore less useful as a partner, even if one were to set aside the question of the propriety of working closely with an increasingly abusive regime. Indeed, even French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly has been slow to congratulate Biya for his election victory. Rather than being part of the solution to the region’s terrorism problem, Biya may be becoming part of the problem.

Source: UPI

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The Board wishes to thank its readers who have continued to trust Southern Cameroon’s leading news platform. It is therefore using this opportunity to state that its reporters are willing to provide more quality information to the readers.    However, due to the changing global financial context, the Board is urging its readers to play a significant role in the financing of the news organization.  It is therefore calling on its faithful readers to make whatever financial contribution they can to ensure they get the latest developments in their native Southern Cameroons, in particular, and Cameroon in general.

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Cameroon bishops say election results ‘decided before voting took place’

28, October 2018

Cameroon bishops say election results ‘decided before voting took place’ 0

Catholic bishops in Cameroon have disputed the results of the Oct. 7 presidential election in the country. The official results were released on Oct. 22 and declared incumbent Paul Biya the winner with 71 percent of the vote, with his main challenger, Maurice Kamto, only receiving 14 percent.

Biya’s ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) party has been accused of massive electoral fraud to keep the 85-year-old leader in office for another seven years. Biya is Africa’s longest serving president, having entered office in 1982.

In the latest election, he was challenged by seven other candidates. In an Oct. 23 press conference, the president of Cameroon’s bishops’ conference, Archbishop Samuel Kleda, said serious questions needed to be asked with regard to the outcome of the ballot.

“This election led me to ask questions,” the archbishop told journalists in Douala.

He noted the large turnout for the president in the Far North Region of the country as being particularly suspicious.

The region is home to the worst poverty levels in Cameroon, with 74 percent of  the people living below the poverty line compared with 37.5 percent nationally, according to the International Crisis Group.

“I don’t see up to 89 percent of people going through such suffering voting for the same person who has been there, doing nothing about the hardship of the people…the far north is one of the poorest and most undeveloped regions in Cameroon…I am seriously puzzled by those figures,” Kleda said.

“This means that all the problems we were looking to resolve before the election will not be resolved.” he added.

The archbishop also questioned the declared victory of Biya in the troubled North West and South West regions.

These are the Anglophone areas of Cameroon and have been engulfed in violent clashes dating back to October 2016.

Teachers’ and lawyers’ strikes over perceived attempts by the francophone-dominated administration to destroy the Anglo-Saxon-educational and legal systems practiced in Anglophone Cameroon mutated into political demands for independence by the Anglophone minority.

Kleda noted that the fighting in the two regions had displaced large numbers of people who couldn’t therefore vote.

“At a time when it was impossible to campaign in the two regions, where are all these figures coming from?” Kleda asked.

Kamto, who claims the election was stolen, has called for the annulment of the results in seven of Cameroon’s ten regions, citing cases of massive fraud.

Another opposition candidate, Joshua Osih, has called for the annulment of the entire poll, because “no election took place in the North West and South West Regions.”

“If I am declared winner of this election, I will decline to be sworn in because I cannot be president of only one part of Cameroon,” Osih told the country’s Constitutional Court.

Kleda complained about what he called the “hasty ruling of the Constitutional Council” in declaring the official results.

“I think all the candidates, Kamto, Cabral and Osih had a strong case and proofs to show there were irregularities, especially the petition of the SDF [the main opposition party] on the North West and South West Regions where few people voted…They had to listen to them… Cameroon is a country with the rule of law, the council kept rejecting all the petitions based on technicalities which was not normal,” the archbishop said.

Kleda then dismissed the results as prefabricated saying it was a trend in the region.

“One has the impression that in the Central African sub region, election results are decided before voting takes place,” he said.

The Emeritus Archbishop of Douala, Cardinal Christian Tumi, a virulent critic of Biya, surprisingly took a more conciliatory tone.

“I would say only one thing: let’s take everything as God’s will, because no one wields power on earth which doesn’t come from God. Those who govern us will render account of how they governed us to God. So, let’s not create problems for them. Let’s accept (the results) and wait for another occasion to choose another person,” the cardinal said.

The bishops are considered by many to be a key to peace in the country, which is 40 percent Catholic.

In May, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group issued a report on Cameroon saying other than the Catholic clergy, “there are few prospective peacemakers.”

“If no one fills that role, the separatist sentiment already voiced by many Anglophones will continue to grow, fueling further violence and exacerbating the ongoing insurgency in the Anglophone regions,” the report said, before noting the 2018 elections could be “a flashpoint.”

Source: Crux

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The Board wishes to thank its readers who have continued to trust Southern Cameroon’s leading news platform. It is therefore using this opportunity to state that its reporters are willing to provide more quality information to the readers.    However, due to the changing global financial context, the Board is urging its readers to play a significant role in the financing of the news organization.  It is therefore calling on its faithful readers to make whatever financial contribution they can to ensure they get the latest developments in their native Southern Cameroons, in particular, and Cameroon in general.

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European Union urges Cameroon “president-elect” to unite country

28, October 2018

European Union urges Cameroon “president-elect” to unite country 0

The European Union on Thursday urged Cameroon’s president elect, veteran strongman Paul Biya, to unite his country and overcome its troubles following elections. The Constitutional Council, dominated by Biya loyalists, said on Monday the 85-year-old leader had won 71.3% of votes in the October 7 poll marred by allegations of widespread fraud, low voter turnout, and violence.

Reacting to the council’s announcement four days later, the EU’s diplomatic arm, the external action service, issued a mild statement that did not mention the fraud allegations.

“The European Union expects the President-elect to bring together all stakeholders to overcome the challenges facing the country, to the benefit of all Cameroonians,” a spokesperson said without mentioning Biya by name.

“While elections were generally held in a peaceful manner, some parts of the population were unable to take part in the vote,” the statement said.

“The EU reiterates its concern about the situation in the North-West and South-West regions of the country.

“It is crucial that the authorities are open to the proposals of civil society and religious authorities for a peaceful and lasting resolution of the crisis, and that a process of dialogue be launched as soon as possible with all actors in favour of peace.”

The EU statement said African Union calls to strengthen the legal and institutional framework for elections in Cameroon “could increase voter confidence in the electoral process and make it more inclusive.”

“Such reforms are crucial and the EU stands ready to accompany such a process,” it said.

The EU has sought to put Europe and Africa on equal footing in a new approach to the continent, fuelled in part by efforts to reduce migration to Europe.

“Africa does not need charity, it needs a balanced partnership and Europe needs this partnership just as much,” European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said last month.

The US State Department took a tougher line Monday, saying voting irregularities cast doubt on the credibility of Biya’s latest victory and urged a peaceful way forward under Biya, who has ruled Cameroon with an iron fist since 1982.

Source: AFP

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The Board wishes to thank its readers who have continued to trust Southern Cameroon’s leading news platform. It is therefore using this opportunity to state that its reporters are willing to provide more quality information to the readers.    However, due to the changing global financial context, the Board is urging its readers to play a significant role in the financing of the news organization.  It is therefore calling on its faithful readers to make whatever financial contribution they can to ensure they get the latest developments in their native Southern Cameroons, in particular, and Cameroon in general.

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Douala: French Cameroonians protest Biya’s rule

27, October 2018

Douala: French Cameroonians protest Biya’s rule 0

“Bread and sardine are finished. Hunger has struck. Douala in chaos. The people want their victory”. These were the words used by our senior political man to describe the demonstrations that started earlier today in Douala in French Cameroun

Hundreds of French Cameroonians held a scantily attended protest today in Douala to demand an end to Biya’s rule, but soldiers and elements of the gendarmerie dispersed them with tear gas and warning shots.

The Kamto Campaign had called for demonstrations to press the 85 year-old President Biya to respect the will of the people by handing power to the man widely believed to have won the October 7 presidential polls in Cameroon.

The Douala protest is the first after the Constitutional Council reportedly denied Prof Maurice Kamto’s apparent victory in a presidential election that was subsequently scuttled by the election body known as ELECAM.

But relatively few Francophones responded to the Kamto Campaign call, underscoring that, while the Biya regime is deeply unpopular, few French Cameroonians are ready to actively confront it. Many French Cameroonians are consumed by their daily struggle for survival amid Cameroon’s economic collapse.

The Biya Francophone government had banned today’s protests and troops heavily deployed around Douala and in the nation’s capital Yaounde to prevent them. An estimated 500 people, mostly young men, gathered around the Bonanjoh and Deido districts many carried anti-government placards and leaflets. But the police swept into the areas, firing tear gas canisters and warning shots into the air. No deaths or injuries were immediately reported.

The army also took to the streets in Yaounde, but the capital city, remained calm.

By Asu Vera Eyere and Rita Akana

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The Board wishes to thank its readers who have continued to trust Southern Cameroon’s leading news platform. It is therefore using this opportunity to state that its reporters are willing to provide more quality information to the readers.    However, due to the changing global financial context, the Board is urging its readers to play a significant role in the financing of the news organization.  It is therefore calling on its faithful readers to make whatever financial contribution they can to ensure they get the latest developments in their native Southern Cameroons, in particular, and Cameroon in general.

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Football: Brazil to play Cameroon in last friendly of 2018 in London

27, October 2018

Football: Brazil to play Cameroon in last friendly of 2018 in London 0

Brazil will play its last friendly of the year against Cameroon in London on Nov. 20, its soccer confederation said on Thursday.

The last time the teams met was during the group stage of the 2014 World Cup when Brazil won 4-1 in Brasilia with a Neymar double.

On Nov. 16, Brazil will face Uruguay in London. Coach Tite will announce his squad for the two friendlies on Friday.

Brazil has won all four friendlies since the 2018 World Cup in Russia, against United States, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia and Argentina.

Tite is preparing his players for the 2019 Copa America tournament that Brazil will host.

Source: AP

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The Board wishes to thank its readers who have continued to trust Southern Cameroon’s leading news platform. It is therefore using this opportunity to state that its reporters are willing to provide more quality information to the readers.    However, due to the changing global financial context, the Board is urging its readers to play a significant role in the financing of the news organization.  It is therefore calling on its faithful readers to make whatever financial contribution they can to ensure they get the latest developments in their native Southern Cameroons, in particular, and Cameroon in general.

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Yaounde: Tongues wag over the publication of a tender for the construction of a villa for the President of the Constitutional Council

27, October 2018

Yaounde: Tongues wag over the publication of a tender for the construction of a villa for the President of the Constitutional Council 0

Tongues have been waging following the publication of a tender for the construction of the residence of the President of the Constitutional Council of Cameroon, just a day after the agency declared 85-year-old President Paul Biya winner of another seven-year mandate.

“In the perspective of development of state patrimony, the minister of State Property, Surveys and Land Tenure hereby launches an open national invitation to tender for the construction work of the residence of the president of the constitutional council based in Bastos,” the public tender, published in the state-run bilingual daily, the Cameroon Tribune, reads.

Bastos is a high end secure neighbourhood that serves as a principal diplomatic region in Yaoundé.

Election results

The $477,000 (FCFA 272.7m) residence will be occupied by the pioneer president of the council, Justice Clement Atangana, who proclaimed President Biya winner of the October 7 election with 71.28 percent of the votes cast.

Many denizens have been commenting about the tender by the Yaoundé authorities.

A journalist and member of the opposition Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM), Ms Angela Forbin, suggested that the house was “compensation” to the president of the constitutional council for “cooking up election results in favour of Biya”.

But Mr Ngala Gerard, a member of the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM), argued that the residence was for the president of the Constitutional Council, and not Justice Atangana.

Outgoing president

“As a senior state functionary, the President of the Constitutional Council is entitled to a residence. The tender is for the construction of a state residence which will be occupied by the president of the council, whoever he or she is or will be. It is not for the construction of Justice Clement Atangana’s private residence,” Mr Ngala said.

During the hearing of post-election petitions in Yaoundé last week, lawyers of CRM’s flagbearer Maurice Kamto argued that over 50 percent of members of the Constitutional Council, including the president, were affiliated to the ruling CPDM party.

The council members were appointed by President Biya.

Prof Kamto, who has maintained he won the October 7 election, said the vote was organised by a “doubtful independent institution” (Elections Cameroon, ELECAM) and supervised by a constitutional council “that almost all its members are militants of the ruling party, all appointed on a discretionary bases by the outgoing president”.

Source: The East African

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The Board wishes to thank its readers who have continued to trust Southern Cameroon’s leading news platform. It is therefore using this opportunity to state that its reporters are willing to provide more quality information to the readers.    However, due to the changing global financial context, the Board is urging its readers to play a significant role in the financing of the news organization.  It is therefore calling on its faithful readers to make whatever financial contribution they can to ensure they get the latest developments in their native Southern Cameroons, in particular, and Cameroon in general.

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Homes, villages burned as Francophone soldiers targets Southern Cameroons Fighters

27, October 2018

Homes, villages burned as Francophone soldiers targets Southern Cameroons Fighters 0

Some of the thousands of people who fled the volatile English-speaking regions of Cameroon before the Oct. 7 presidential election have returned home to find that their houses and villages have been burned to the ground.

Separatists pushing for an English-speaking state had vowed to prevent any voting in northwestern and southwestern Cameroon, and they attacked many polling places on election day.

Christa Banla, 18, fled her village of Ngarum for a town in a French-speaking area. After incumbent President Paul Biya was declared winner of the election, she decided to go back to her village, thinking that peace had been restored.

Instead, she found her home had been torched. The military had attacked the village and other areas where they believed armed separatists were hiding or holding training camps.

“They came and drove all of us out of the compound,” Banla said. “We were only coming back in the evening to discover that the compound was destroyed by the military and burned down. We do not even have food to eat, no clothes to wear. We need help.”

Emmanuel Chuye, mayor of Ndu district, which includes Ngarum, said that after the election, the government ordered the military to attack suspected separatist strongholds. He said many people were being killed and their houses were being burned down by both the military and the separatists.

“The government has been attacking the ones fighting for the restoration of the independence of southern Cameroon,” Chuye said. “In Ngarum, a lieutenant was killed as well as two military officials; civilians were killed, including a [municipal] councilor. They were not only killed, they were burned and their houses, too, were set ablaze.”

The government has not given casualty figures from the recent fighting, but local media reported that at least 30 civilians, soldiers and suspected separatists had been killed in the northwest within a week.

Northwest Region Gov. Deben Tchoffo confirmed that the military was at work in the region, but said soldiers were not killing indiscriminately and burning villages. He said the attacks would continue until peace returned to the region.

“Government has taken necessary measures to secure the remotest areas, neglecting nothing that can hinder the global security of the nation,” Tchoffo said.

Two years ago

Unrest began in Cameroon in November 2016, when English-speaking teachers and lawyers demonstrated against the dominant use of the French language. Separatists took over and demanded that the English-speaking northwest and southwest secede from the rest of the country.

The United Nations has said that at least 400 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes as a result of the conflict. At least 20,000 have fled to Nigeria.

Culled from The VOA

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The Board wishes to thank its readers who have continued to trust Southern Cameroon’s leading news platform. It is therefore using this opportunity to state that its reporters are willing to provide more quality information to the readers.    However, due to the changing global financial context, the Board is urging its readers to play a significant role in the financing of the news organization.  It is therefore calling on its faithful readers to make whatever financial contribution they can to ensure they get the latest developments in their native Southern Cameroons, in particular, and Cameroon in general.

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Southern Cameroons War: Fighting between Cameroon military, Restoration forces kills ‘many’

27, October 2018

Southern Cameroons War: Fighting between Cameroon military, Restoration forces kills ‘many’ 0

Cameroon’s military on Thursday said “many have been killed” in fighting with Anglophone separatists after launching attacks the day after President Paul Biya was declared the winner of a seventh term.

Biya has called the separatists “terrorists,” and fighting since last year has killed hundreds of people.

The military launched simultaneous attacks on Tuesday against at least seven suspected training grounds in the Northwest region, with fighting reported in villages in Bui, Mezam, Donga Mantung and Ngoketungia administrative areas, authorities and residents said.

An Associated Press reporter saw at least 18 corpses. Ngarum resident Tata Leslie said he counted 15 dead.

“The military attacked on the early hours of Tuesday and the fighting continued for over 24 hours,” he said.

Leslie said there were fears that residents have been caught up in the killings and arrests. “The military mounted checkpoints and controlled everyone coming in or going out. Many people have escaped to the bushes,” he said.

Gen. Agha Robinson, who commanded the troops staging the raids, said “many have been killed” but did not give details. The military freed some hostages and seized weapons and motorcycles, he said.

Local media reported that at least 30 suspected armed fighters were killed along with an unknown number of soldiers. Many villages were deserted, with many houses torched.

Residents accused the military of burning homes.

“We have to free the population from the bondage and pain inflicted on them by the armed gangs. Our people cannot continue to live in fear,” Northwest regional Governor said.

Fighting between the military and separatists began last year when the government clamped down on peaceful demonstrations in Anglophone regions by English-speaking teachers and lawyers protesting what they called marginalization by Cameroon’s French-speaking majority.

Armed factions emerged after the government crackdown and have been using violence to push for independence.

Source: AP

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