Politics

National dialogues have recently gained traction as vital instruments for peace transformations in Africa. National dialogues are usually initiated to deal with a wide range of issues, including political reforms, constitution making and peacebuilding. They can also be seen as political processes aiming to reach a new social contract between interest groups and community in a country.

Buhari said his country will do everything possible to support Cameroon’s unity just as Cameroon supported Nigeria against the Biafran secessionist war of 1967-1970 during which about 3 million Nigerians were killed.

Of the three deep seaports in Cameroon, Limbe is the only one that is still to be constructed after several failed promises.

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.

The US Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken, has announced that the US has decided to introduce visa restrictions on Cameroon nationals, who are “undermining the peaceful resolution of the crisis in Anglophone regions of Cameroon”
In a statement released on June 7, 2021, the Secretary of State said the move to institute visa restrictions on those against the peaceful resolution of the crisis was going into effect immediately.

With the escalation of the Anglophone crisis, traditional rulers in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, have continually been targeted by separatist fighters for either supporting a government initiative, or refusing to side with separatists’ agenda, or voting.
Also, traditional rulers seen by the government as weighing more on the separatists’ side of the divide, have been targeted and harassed by government forces. As a result, some have fled their palaces too, for fear of further harassment or prosecution.

The Chair of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement, CRM party, Prof. Maurice Kamto, has promised to continue battling till the objective of his party’s fight is attained, after he was freed from a 78-day house arrest on Tuesday, December 8.

The former Mayor of Muyuka Council, Michael Nkeng, on Saturday, November 28, stated that he refused “to play hardball” within the CPDM, and has also refused to leave the party like other people, because he believes that it is better to fight from within the party, so that power should be given to the grassroots and not so-called elite.

The Southwest Regional Campaign Manager of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, Peter Mafany Musonge, has challenged CPDM Councillors to vote massively in the forthcoming Regional Elections.

In a release dated November 6, the U.S diplomat said the Cameroonian diaspora in the United States can and must play a critical key role to end the violence in Cameroon.