Anglophone crisis

In the leaders retreat, organised and coordinated by the Coalition for Dialogue and Negotiations, CDN they have in their Declaration, stated amongst other things that recognising the importance of collective engagement in matters of negotiations founded on trust, they will create space to build from their different strategies to engage in external negotiations as one entity, representing the people of the Southern Cameroons and their ultimate interest.

In recent weeks, Buea has recorded a trend, whereby taxi drivers who operate on Monday, a day imposed by separatists as ghost town, are attacked either with guns or explosive devices.
This new trend has left observers with the impression that Buea may either be slipping back to days of insecurity or witnessing a new trend in operations meant to implement the separatists’ imposed Monday ghost towns that effectively put on hold commercial activities in the regional capital like most parts of the war-torn Anglophone regions of Cameroon.

Although the 30-year-old appeared in court for the first time since her arrest, the case was dismissed from the Buea High Court for a second time, with presiding Judge, Anne Afong, saying it is legal for Kongnso and her week-old baby to remain in pre-trial detained until April 2022, when the magistrate at the Military Tribunal in Buea must have finalised investigations.

Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists, CAMASEJ, has rounded off a three-day capacity building workshop on factoring gender and human rights in reporting the armed conflict in Cameroon’s Southwest and Northwest Region of the country.

If we, as Anglophone intellectuals, can’t even speak up against such political and social injustices for the uneducated in our society, not to talk of ourselves, what then is the use of our high-level educational attainment?

According to outlined objectives, the leadership retreat is expected to cultivate and begin nurturing trust among the Southern Cameroonian leaders across religious, traditional, civil society and various armed groups fighting for independence of Anglophone Regions. The retreat is also expected to come out with an agreement on a framework to enhance access to education, humanitarian aid and to uphold human rights in the crisis-hit Regions.

The Minister of Social Affairs, Pauline Irene Nguene has praised the Etombi Foundation for marching in line with the social policies of President Paul Biya by contributing positively to the future of Cameroonian Students.
Minister Pauline Irene Ngeune was talking on Friday, October 29, at Government High School, GHS Limbe.

A group of lawyers, led by Barrister Edward Lyonga Ewule, have taken the Gendarmerie Legion Commander in Buea and the Superintendent of the Buea Central Prison to court over the torture and imprisonment of a heavily-pregnant woman, Antoinette Kongnso Gohla, on flimsy excuses that she dated the now dreaded separatist commander, ‘No Pity’, five years ago. The case comes up in Buea on October 22, 2021.

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.