Anglophone crisis

The killing which received wide condemnation and even caused a day long protest was unfortunately not the first in Buea, and certainly not a rare one in the ongoing war against separatist fighters in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions. Like several other victims who have been killed in similar circumstances, little Carolaise was killed in a situation that was uncalled for.

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.

If there’s anybody within the Cameroon stakeholdership today who understands President Biya’s September 22, 2017 speech at the UN General Assembly that he is a ‘beggar of peace’, it is PM Dion Ngute, who since taking over office understands that one cannot be a beggar of peace by sitting in the cosy confines of offices in Yaounde, but rather, that such a person needs to be down field, communioning with market women as he did during his first visit to Bamenda in 2019.

In the compendium, the Committee to follow up the implementation of the recommendations of the Major National Dialogue notes that “Since 2016 when corporate claims morphed into civil disobedience acts in the North West and South West Regions, the government elected to address the issues raised through Dialogue. It is in this regard that ad-hoc commissions in both the educational and legal sectors were created, meetings were organised and actions taken to address the concerns presented by the corporate bodies,” it says.

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.

The Kumba District Hospital Director, Dr. Paul Enongene Ngang; Board Chair, Gregory Mewanu; patients and some beneficiaries have hailed Doctors Without Borders, DWB, for donating medical and other equipment worth FCFA 247 million to the health facility.
They were equally thankful to international medical non-governmental organisation for its constant presence and commitment to saving lives and giving health assistance to the poor and needy persons in Kumba and its surrounding communities.

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.

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.

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.

The Government of Cameroon has launched a manhunt for a certain Mbah Germaine Tezoh, the mystical sponsor…