Human Rights

She was punched severally and the 8-month unborn baby kicked by Moja Moja, before she was surrendered to Gendarmerie officers. Her crime for now, we learned, is that in some episode of her life, she had dated the now renowned Separatist commander, self-styled ‘Field Marshall No Pity’. That was years before she married her husband, Clovis Sima Shiynyuy.

The Executive Director of Reach Out – a humanitarian NGO, Esther Omam has again been recognised for her peace advocacy in less than six months.
This was during a ceremony organised by Lois Foundation and Award in the seaside resort town of Limbe on Saturday, September 11.

The four suspects who were standing trial for the case that attracted the attention of people within and out of Cameroon are the first persons to be slammed a death sentence in Cameroon, 24 years after such a sentence was given out and executed by a court in 1997.

Videos of the incident amateurishly taken by wailing Christians showed a worshiper, identified as Grace Titalabit lying in a pool of her own blood. She was later proclaimed dead. The Church’s Pastor, Rev. Simon Voma Montoh was also shot in the arm. A statement from Cameroon military spokesperson, Navy Captain Cyrille Atonfack, said another Christian was wounded in the foot, as a result of the bullets that were rained on the church during worship hours on that Sunday August 22.

For some time now, several families have remained gripped in fear of the fate that may have befallen their loved ones, several weeks after they were abducted by an armed group operating in Ndian Division, in Cameroon’s Southwest region.

On its May 28, 2021 weekender edition, The Post reported a pathetic story of a family running away from the incessant raids in the Bui Division of Cameroon’s Northwest region. The news article by Chris Mbunwe narrated the sad story of a teacher, Oliver Lankar who, in escaping from the turbulent Division, lost his one-year-old baby due to the heavy rains and cold.

About 50 journalists drawn from different areas and media organs from the Southwest region of Cameroon, were on Friday June 11, trained on best practices in conflict reporting. They were also trained on entrepreneurship, to help them seek alternative sources of income, in order to meet up with other financial obligations which cannot be cannot all be met by income from their jobs.

One year since Government announced that Buea-based television journalist, Samuel Ajiekah Abuwe, (Samuel Wazizi) had died in detention, the Cameroonian population and the international community have not seen the late journalist’s body.
Owing to widespread condemnation of Wazizi’s death, President Paul Biya promised to personally investigate the case but findings are still being awaited.

Esther Omam, the winner of The Scoop Media’s Outstanding Humanitarian, Peace and Mediator Award, has vowed not to relent efforts in peace-building and humanitarianism in the crisis-hit Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon.
Dedicating the award to Anglophone Crisis victims, Esther Omam said the award would not have been possible without the crisis which has opportuned her to serve relentlessly.
She received the award recently during a ceremony organised by The Scoop Media Group in Buea, to honour some outstanding and selfless personalities in Cameroon.

In the video filmed by the officers, Tata is being tortured into a coma, by the officers who demand that he tells them where in the bush his brother, a supposed separatist fighter, is hiding. Tata was beaten on the soles of his feet, his buttocks, his back, and even his belly, with a machete. He was also kicked severally on the head. The officers poured water on him while torturing.