4, July 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: 18 Ambazonians transferred from Buea to Kondengui 0
18 Anglophones were transferred yesterday from Buea Central Prison to Kondengui Prison, Yaounde. These 18 detainees are currently detained in ‘Kosovo’, a section of Kondengui maximum security prison.
They have been kept in tight chains and were brutally tortured last night by prison guards who repeatedly called them Ambazonians. This prompted a strike action in prison by other Anglophone inmates today. One of them has a decaying wound; another is suffering with a broken arm.
As a result of pressure and the strike action by other Anglophone inmates, the prison registrar said, orders from hierarchy demanded him to keep the detainees in chains for observation.
This is a repeated pattern of treatment upon Southern Cameroonians and alleged separatists, none of their rights are respected, presumption of innocence seems not to exist and authorities act with impunity.
List of 18 Anglophones transferred to Kondengui maximum security prison, Yaounde on July 2, 2018.
14 were transferred from Buea central prison to Kondengui, Yaounde and 4 were transferred from SED to Kondengui.
1) TATI ERIC NGU
2) HARRIS BOSEME
3) NKWETATO ROBERT
4) IKOE CLINTON
5) ACHA IVO ABEN
6) JOHN MARINUS NDENGE
7) OBEN FRANKLINE TABOT
8) EYONG CHARLES
9) EFFIA GIDEON
10) ORDEMA FRANCIS
11) AGBOR TAKU JOSEPH
12) AWU GREGORY ASHU
13) TANYI ROBERT TATAW
14) JONG ORLANDUS
15) NJEYA JUKIUS BAWE
16) KUM NESTOR
17) AYUKEM FRANKLIN
18) FONJONG ARMSTRONG
By Barrister Agbor Nkongho
CENTRE for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa
9, July 2018
Tunisia: 9 police killed in attack 0
Nine members of Tunisia’s security forces were killed on Sunday in an attack in the west of the country close to the border with Algeria, state news agency TAP reported.
Militants present in rural parts of Tunisia occasionally target security forces, but Sunday’s toll was the highest since 2015, a year in which extremist militants carried out three major attacks.
The police unit from Gar Dimaou in the region of Jendouba was ambushed during a regular patrol, TAP reported.
“The terrorist attackers threw a grenade at the first security car and there were confrontations with firearms,” the report cited a security source as saying.
One of the Arab world’s most secular nations, Tunisia became a target for militants after being hailed as a beacon of democratic change with an uprising against autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
Some militants operate in remote areas near the border with Algeria, which has been fighting the remnants of a major extremist insurgency in the 1990s.
Two of the attacks in 2015 were against tourists, the first at a museum in Tunis and the second on a beach in Sousse. The third targeted presidential guards in the capital, killing 12.
All three attacks were claimed by Daesh.
Tourism, after collapsing, has since gradually recovered.
The government has maintained a state of emergency, allowing it greater powers in its attempts to dismantle militant networks.
(Source: Reuters)