Cameroon on Monday opposed French
President Emmanuel Macron’s remarks over a separatist crisis in the country’s
English-speaking regions.
Cameroonian President Paul Biya
“is accountable for his actions to the sole sovereign Cameroonian people
and not to a foreign leader, even from a friendly country,” Ferdinand Ngoh
Ngoh, secretary general of the Cameroon presidency, said in a statement
released Monday evening.
On Saturday, Macron, while
speaking to a Cameroonian activist at a farm show in Paris, promised to put
“maximum pressure” on Biya over a humanitarian crisis in Cameroon’s
Anglophone regions where armed separatists are clashing with government forces.
Biya is fully engaged to
accomplish his mandate “and does not need external pressure to do
so,” commented Ngoh.
He also urged Cameroonians to
remain calm and open to strengthen the “historic relations” between
France and Cameroon.
Early on Monday, hundreds of
demonstrators, brandishing placards and chanting slogans, gathered in front of
the French embassy in Cameroon to protest against what they described as Paris’
intervention in their internal affairs.
According to the UN, there have
been over 700,000 refugees and internally displaced persons since separatists
began clashing with government forces in 2017 to establish an independent nation
they call “Ambazonia” in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon.
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Cameroon on Monday opposed French President Emmanuel Macron’s remarks over a separatist crisis in the country’s English-speaking regions.
Cameroonian President Paul Biya “is accountable for his actions to the sole sovereign Cameroonian people and not to a foreign leader, even from a friendly country,” Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, secretary general of the Cameroon presidency, said in a statement released Monday evening.
On Saturday, Macron, while speaking to a Cameroonian activist at a farm show in Paris, promised to put “maximum pressure” on Biya over a humanitarian crisis in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions where armed separatists are clashing with government forces.
Biya is fully engaged to accomplish his mandate “and does not need external pressure to do so,” commented Ngoh.
He also urged Cameroonians to remain calm and open to strengthen the “historic relations” between France and Cameroon.
Early on Monday, hundreds of demonstrators, brandishing placards and chanting slogans, gathered in front of the French embassy in Cameroon to protest against what they described as Paris’ intervention in their internal affairs.
According to the UN, there have been over 700,000 refugees and internally displaced persons since separatists began clashing with government forces in 2017 to establish an independent nation they call “Ambazonia” in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon.
Source: Xinhuanet