At least fifteen people were reported killed last night in a serious traffic accident on the Yaoundé- Douala highway. Police sources also revealed that the accident caused 4 serious injuries and the wounded were all taken to the Edéa Regional Hospital.

Cameroon Concord News learned that the accident occurred at around 10 pm (2100 GMT) some 20 km from Edéa, the chief locality in the Sanaga Maritime Division from a head-on collision between an inter-urban bus and a freight truck.

For more than a month, there has been almost no day without traffic accidents, resulting in loss of life in Cameroon.

By Rita Akana
Cameroon Concord News

55 Southern Cameroonians arrested and tried in connection with the violence linked to the Anglophone crisis have regained their freedom after a decree signed by President Biya halting all legal proceedings. 24 others whose proceedings are still pending before the military court in Yaoundé including BBC Mancho are still in detention. Their fate will be known at the next hearings.

Cameroon Concord News understands the decree excluded from the list of beneficiaries, defendants prosecuted for murder, destruction of national emblems including the flag and the authors calling for secession. The so-called Cameroon government spokesman, Issa Tchiroma hinted that the decision taken by President Paul Biya is “in conformity with the provisions of article 13 paragraph 4 of law n ° 2017/012 of July 12, 2017 establishing a code of military justice.”

According to this law, the President of the Republic may at any time before a judgement is pronounced, prescribe a criminal prosecution before the military court. Issa Tchiroma also said it is not a question of “interference by the executive, nor of an interference with the independence of the judiciary, but of a mere application of the law in Cameroon. The President Paul Biya decree which sounded the return to social cohesion, was greeted by António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General.

By Sama Ernest
Cameroon Concord News

The Minister of Sports and Physical Education, Pierre Ismaël Bidoung Mkpatt has signed a ministerial order setting up a day of bilingualism in his ministry. The new innovation in the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo government is unprecedented and comes just some few hours after the 85 year old dictator ordered the release of the leaders of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium including Lord Justice Ayah Paul Abine.

The Minister Bidoun Mkpatt’s order stipulates that all personnel in the Ministry of Sports and Physical Education are required to speak “English” to French-speaking employees or to speak “French” to English-speaking staff on the last Thursday of each month .

The Minister who is reportedly an in-law to President Biya stated that the initiative takes effect as from today Thursday the 31st of August 2017. Minister Bidoung set an example yesterday Wednesday the 30th of August 2017 in the morning at the Multipurpose Sports Palace in Yaounde during a ceremony to launch the so-called bilingual day whose objective is the promotion of the bilingualism in Cameroon. During his speech on the occasion, Pierre Ismaël Bidoung Mkpatt alternated French and English.

However, there is still no news of the Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism created by the Head of State Paul Biya for eight months in a context marked by the Southern Cameroons crisis. We understand the commission’s chairman, former Prime Minister Peter Mafany Musonge recently got married and maybe enjoying his honeymoon.

By Rita Akana
Cameroon Concord News

President Biya has ordered the Military Tribunal in Yaounde to end all legal proceedings against the leaders of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium including Lord Justice Ayah Paul Abine of the Supreme Court of Cameroon.

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Alain Noël Mekulu Mvondo, the general manager of the National Social Insurance Fund (CNPS) is facing serious accusations of financial malpractice and embezzlement. For some weeks now, journalists have been presenting evidence of embezzlement on television and on the Internet, which has overwhelmed the all powerful Francophone social security boss.

According to the documents recently made public, the GM of the National Social Insurance Fund is living a princely lifestyle and has cumulative advantages worth over 2 billion CFA francs (over 3 million euros) in his 8 years at the head of the fund, while in Cameroon, according to figures published by the National Institute of Statistics ) in its Ecam 2014 survey, 37.5% of the population live on less than 1 dollar a day with some civil servants earning 36 270 FCFA (55 euros) a month.

The docile Francophone public opinion was mostly shocked by the princely advantages of this new generation Beti Ewondo leader who perfectly illustrates the gap between the ruling elite and the ordinary citizen. He denies that he has filed a lawsuit against journalists who are responsible for the denunciations but explained on Tuesday evening, during a an interview with Canal 2, that his salary is not what some passionate spirits evoke.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai
Cameroon Concord News

The regime in Yaounde has deployed troops to Southern Cameroons as part of a special operation to secure the start of the so-called new academic year. Cameroon Concord News gathered that the operation, which has a 128 days duration is already costing nearly 500 million CFA francs. Our chief correspondent in Yaounde noted that the deployment was carried out in accordance with standing instructions from the French Cameroun dictator, President Paul Biya.

The latest contingent involving 400 gendamerie officers from La Republque du Cameroun, it is said, will add to the 959 men already deployed in all the Southern Cameroons counties to protect schools and the oil refinery in Limbe.

According to a security source, the Francophone measures are precautionary and seem to be reinforced by the discovery in early May of a bunker in the Mbengwi county, which the government claimed was constructed with the support of the Southern Cameroons Governing Council to perpetrate attacks against La Republique’s defense and security forces.

This French Cameroun discovery was made after the arrest on August 2nd of five individuals whose leader, Dasi Alfred Ngyah alias “Sniper”, of Cameroonian origin but holding a Belgian passport, was preparing to take assault on a police barrage, according to statements made by the corrupt Minister of Communication and government spokesman, Issa Tchiroma Bakary.

At a press conference in Yaoundé, the Minister of Communication stated that the same individual had admitted to being a member of Ambazonia and responsible for its military wing known as the Liberation Movement of Southern Cameroon.

Tension has increased in recent days, since the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium announced the intensification of ghost town operations against the Francophone regime in Yaounde and decreed the closure of all educational establishments in Southern Cameroons.

By Sama Ernest
Cameroon Concord News Group

A 60 seater bus owned by Noblesse transport agency has crashed into a Guinness Cameroon truck on the Bafoussam- Douala highway killing 8 passengers on-board. The public transport vehicle that left the West region was not far from the economic capital, Douala when it recorded a head-on collision with a truck loaded with Guinness Cameroon products in the village of Bomono. Local media report say the accident took place around 1 am this Saturday, August 26, 2017.

A spokesperson for the national gendarmerie revealed that the Guinness truck driver was attempting to move away from a crazy bike rider when he bombed into the Noblesse bus. Eight people including the truck driver and his conductor died on the spot.

There has been conflicting reports on the death toll with unofficial sources stating that 20 people were killed in the incident. Roads are increasingly becoming deadly in Biya’s Cameroon and Cameroon Concord News has advised Southern Cameroonians in the Diaspora not to travel home except in unavoidable circumstances. In the last three weeks, road accidents have claimed the lives of 150 people.

By Chi Prudence Asong
Cameroon Concord News

At least 20 people died when an overloaded bus and a lorry collided in the southwest of the African country of Cameroon.

Two more people, who were injured in the head-on collision, have been taken to a hospital.

The incident occurred near the town of Muyuka, authorities say, adding that they’re still not sure about the cause of the accident.

Initial investigations indicate that the truck, which was transporting food, may have had mechanical problems shortly before it ran into the bus.

A government school has been razed to the ground in Mutenguene making it the 8th school burned in less than two weeks in Southern Cameroons. The Ambazonia militant groups are currently operating underground and are targeting schools and other public buildings.

These repeated acts of school fires cast doubt on the actual reopening of schools in West Cameroon for the 2017 academic year. Southern Cameroonians with ties to the Francophone regime in Yaoundé have accused the Francophone dominated police forces of engaging in no strategy to stop the burning.

Southern Cameroons counties for the last 11 months have been the theater of angry protest against French Cameroun marginalization. Separatists have attacked police stations including military camps and vandalized high school campuses.

Mutengene is presented as the second most frondeous locality of the Buea Province in Southern Cameroons, after Kumba. But Mutengene owes much more to its reputation hosting the National Police Training and Enforcement Center that is entire French orientated.

By Rita Akana
Cameroon Concord News

Reports from Kumbo, Bui County in Southern Cameroons say Government Primary School Kikaikelaka has been completely burnt down by unknown individuals. Neighbours and witnesses hinted the school may have been razed for accommodating the 2016/2017 Common Entrance and First Schools Leaving Certificate examinations (FSL).

In spite of very tight security, the militant group carried out the act and disappeared before security could be alerted. Notwithstanding the tense and frightening presence of the forces of law and order who are currently spread across the different counties and villages in Southern Cameroons. Cameroon Info.Net reported that the incident occurred during the early hours of Wednesday, around 3 am.

The fire was discovered late and West Cameroonians in that part of the territory could only lament the material damages and the impact on school resumption for this academic year. Parents are now worried about the safety of pupils and students.

French Cameroun colonial security apparatus have as usual opened an investigation. This is not the first fire incident that has consumed a school structure in the North West constituency; several schools have been reduced to ashes, including markets, police stations, Hotel and several private properties.

Source: Cameroon Info.Net