Education

17, December 2017

Yaounde: Cameroonian author Patrice Nganang held in prison before court hearing ⁰

Cameroonian author Patrice Nganang was held in prison on Thursday before a court appearance on Friday for the alleged publication of an article critical of the country’s president.

His lawyer Emmanuel Simh confirmed his client was jailed at the capital Yaounde’s central prison ahead of his first hearing at the Yaounde administrative centre.

“I did not have access to his file, but he is prosecuted for apology for crime, contempt and assault threats,” he told AFP, adding that the charge of “contempt of the President of the Republic” and “forgery and the use of forged documents” had been dropped.

Nganang, who teaches literature at New York University, was arrested on December 6 in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon, on his way to fly to Harare in Zimbabwe. Cameroonian government spokesperson Issa Tchiroma Bakary said that the writer had made threats against President Paul Biya on December 3 on Facebook. Nganang is alleged to have written that he had a gun and that he was going to shoot Biya in the head.

Source: AFP

14, December 2017

Biya regime extends detention for writer Patrice Nganang ⁰

Cameroonian author Patrice Nganang has had his custody extended by 48 hours by the authorities, his lawyer said on Tuesday, nearly a week after his arrest for publishing an article critical of the country’s president.

“His detention was extended (Monday) for 48 hours by the state prosecutor,” lawyer Emmanuel Simh told AFP, adding that Nganang would “in principle” appear before the prosecutor after its expiry.

‘DEATH THREAT’

Simh said the detention was “illegal” because Nganang was not initially notified he was being placed in custody.

Police say Nganang made an online death threat against President Paul Biya, but Cameroon writers and activists have called for his unconditional release.

Nganang, who teaches literature at New York University, published last Tuesday an opinion piece in French on the Jeune Afrique news site critical of Biya’s handling of the crisis in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone regions.

He was arrested the next day after visiting an Anglophone part of mainly French-speaking Cameroon, where tensions have been running high following a crackdown on a secession movement.

DUAL NATIONALITY

Sources said Nganang was in possession of two passports, one from Cameroon and one from the US, when he was arrested. Local media reports said police maintain he should have forfeited his Cameroon document after taking out US nationality as his native country’s Constitution does not recognise dual nationality.

But many media outlets questioned how many Cameroonian leaders, as well as footballers and musicians, have two or more passports. Nganang was arrested on his way to visit his wife in Zimbabwe, a security official said on condition of anonymity.

Source: Daily Nation

1, December 2017

The Choice: Cameroon Concord News Person of the Year goes to the People of Southern Cameroons ⁰

The Cameroon Concord News Person of the Year award goes to the Southern Cameroons and all its citizens individually and collectively. The collective nature of this choice is justified.

Fifty-six years ago, the Southern Cameroons a United Nations Trust territory under British administration, was betrayed and sold off to France through its vassal state of French Cameroun. In terms of analogy, the enslavement and selling off black Africans by criminal gangs to whom NATO/EU nations handed Libya, revolting as it is, pales in terms of the collective genocidal intent evident in the slave deal over the Southern Cameroons with the complicity of the United Nations, Great Britain and France.

Great Britain and France were among the key actors on whom humanity relied to create the United Nations on the 26 of June 1945 in San Francisco. This underscored a firm determination of the civilized world “to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small’. In consequence therefore, the United Nations Organization went operational on 24 October 1945 with among other goals to fulfill a critical determination to meet its charter obligation under article 76 (b) “to promote the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement”.

Pursuant to this multilateral treaty obligation, the United Nations oversaw the grant of independence to French Cameroun on 1 January 1960 although, it remains a vassal state of France. When the time came for the realization of the UN multilateral treaty obligation towards the Southern Cameroons on 1 October 1961, Great Britain handed the articles of sovereignty over the territory to French vassal state of French Cameroun and France’s proxy army of occupation in the night of 30 September 1961. Ever since, the genocidal onslaught and ferocious intensity with which it is executed qualifies the Southern Cameroons as a cancer on the conscience of the international community. The genocide that was carefully weaved into the slave deal apart, the racism that underpinned the callousness of the impunity with which Southern Cameroons was sacrificed to satisfy or fulfil the imperial economic interests of Britain and France, more than anything establishes that these superpowers perceived the United Nations as an institution they may rely on to legitimize imperial domination over supposed independent African nations. The selling off the Southern Cameroons into slavery at its threshold to independence explains this eloquently.

This is further explained by the complicit silence or inaction of the UN to the consequences in terms of Southern Cameroonian lives lost, legal and cultural identity destroyed, economy raped and culture of terror, and international criminality imposed on the Southern Cameroons on the watch of the UN and its ancillary institutions. Judging from the timid and complicit statements of the France-Afrique neocolonial UN Secretary-General Representative for Central Africa, François Louncény Fall of Guinea an avowed paid agent of French Cameroun aimed at whitewashing the genocide of Southern Cameroons by attempting to make victims out of French Cameroun criminal genocide executioners, it is safe under these circumstances to conclude that the infiltration of the international system over the years rather than dissuade, encouraged impunity and

Despite these obstacles and the seemingly unsurmountable odds against the Southern Cameroons, after fifty-six years of excruciating life under genocide, terror, economic terrorism, and all forms of international criminality imaginable, the people rose as one on the 22 September 2017, and ultimately on 1 October 2017 to reclaim their freedom and independence. The deployment by French Cameroun of helicopter gunships and other ordnance supplied by France and other international actors to fight Boko Haram to kill and maim in large and systematic scale hundreds of thousands of armless Southern Cameroonians failed to abate the resolve of a determined independence seeking people of the Southern Cameroons.

The genocidal intent of French Cameroun leaders in the prosecution of the genocide and crimes against humanity against the Southern Cameroons has consistently been expressed during their official functions and through news networks under their control. Unlike genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes that were committed in some parts of the world by carefully sophisticated institutional frameworks and death squads, the planners, commanders and executioners of the genocide of the Southern Cameroons have publicly taken credit for their brazen acts of criminality.

They deployed and commanded the criminal death squads and praised them for the cruelty with which they have been executing the genocide and sundry international crimes against Southern Cameroonians : The unexhaustive list of criminals and persons who bear the greatest responsibility for the international crimes committed against the Southern Cameroons are, Paul Biya, President of French Cameroun, President of the National Assembly of French Cameroun, Cavaye Yegui Djibril, President of the Senate of French Cameroun,Marcel Niat, French Cameroun’s government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Minister of Justice, Laurent Esso, Minister of Higher Education, Fame Ndongo, Minister of Defence, Joseph Beti Assomo, Minister in charge of Missions at the Presidency, Paul Atanga Nji, Minister of Post and Telecommunications,Minette Libom Li Likeng Governor of the South West,Bernard Okalia Bilai, Governor of the North West, Adolphe Lele Lafrique, Minister of State in charge of the Gendarmerie, Jean Baptiste Bonkam, Delegate General in charge of National Security, Mbarga Nguele Martin, Army Chiefs of French Cameroun and all their proconsuls so-called senior SDO.s , Mayor Ekema Patrick Esunge, CRTV, Vision 4 television, Cameroon Tribune, French Cameroun Military Court, and the CPDM party etc. The ferocity and cruelty of these crimes did not deter Southern Cameroonians from reaching Buea the capital of the Southern Cameroons to symbolically reassert the independence of the Southern Cameroons which they hence proclaimed as the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

The revolutionary spirit of the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and the unparalleled mobilization of Southern Cameroonians around the world to condemn and urge intervention to abate the ongoing crimes and for the perpetrators to be brought to book, sent a loud and clear message to French Cameroun and the world at large, that the independence of the Ambazonia fatherland which is non-negotiable and sacrosanct will be defended at all costs. Southern Cameroons has demonstrated to the world that anything short of this will be a betrayal of the martyrs who died, peace plants leaves in hand, singing the songs of liberation, freedom and independence.

Today, Cameroon Concord News Group recognizes for honour all Southern Cameroonians and all its citizens, dead or alive, home or abroad, free or in detention for their determination in securing and defending the independence of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia even at the supreme price. You have evinced an irrevocable determination to defend the goals of this revolution. Armless and with peace plants as symbols of peace, you demonstrated to the international community that you understand the universal tenets of peace, justice and freedom.

In slaughtering many of you in cold blood, the cowardly soldiers of French Cameroon set up themselves and their commanders as legitimate targets of attacks in defense of the Southern Cameroons homeland and its people. The President of the Interim Government of Ambazonia H.E Sisiku Ayuk Tabe conveyed this option to French Cameroun in a televised interview on a French television channel recently. When that option will be deemed to be the only alternative left, in pushing the enemy from the territory of Ambazonia, the enemy will feel the full wait of Ambazonia’s collective resolve. When the moment comes, and there is growing grassroots support for the option, French Cameroon and its crime syndicate in power, will know and pay the price for its unprovoked aggression and consequential costs in Ambazonian lives, economy and cultural heritage. For your resolve and sacrifice in the defence of the universal tenets of our humanity at risk, you deserve Cameroon Concord News Person Of The Year Award.

Congratulation.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Chairman and Editor-in-Chief

Cameroon Concord News Group

1, December 2017

Anglophone Text Book Affair: Ambazonians no strangers to French Cameroun dismissals, but Biya era is different ⁰

The Francophone regime in Yaounde has expelled eight Southern Cameroons pedagogic inspectors from their positions. The French Cameroun government say the 8 are accused of having participated in the propagation of a book conveying secessionist ideas.

The book in question, “Moving on student’s Book 2”, was removed from the official list of textbooks recommended for the 2017-2018 academic year. The book carries on page 56 a lesson on rights and freedoms, a concept through which the author praised the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia by inserting the Ambaland flag, instead of the theme on living together contained in the original book.

The Biya Francophone regime noted that the authors of this far-reaching falsification have been formally identified. Cameroon Concord News gathered that the eight are teachers serving with the Ministry of Secondary Education as pedagogical inspectors, an employee of the British Embassy in Yaounde and two employees of the publishing House, Cosmos Educational Press Ltd.

We understand the Ministry of Secondary Education has decided that all books published by Cosmos Educational Press Ltd will be gradually removed from the official list of textbooks in La Republique du Cameroun.

Names of people involved

Nduge Alfred Enang

Emme Mojoko Evele

Mballe Samuel Eseh

Obenson Gregory Ayuk

Fudelis Atabong Tatuh

Ekwoge Joseph Elongo

Tabi Ayuk Suzana Ngwa

Asaba Morfaw Prudencia Emeteh

Arrey Elvis N., employee at the British Embassy

Bong Moses P., employee at Cosmos Publishing House

Ntungwe Ebane N., employee at Cosmos Publishing House

By Sama Ernest with files from CIN

29, November 2017

French Cameroun: Children flee school in fear of vaccination ⁰

Hundreds of pupils in the Far North Regional Capital Maroua have fled from school following rumour that a serious vaccination campaign that would render them sterile was to be launched in school.

Because of this, a school that normally hosts over 900 pupils was left with just close to 400 pupils. Teachers and health officials have been making efforts to help this children come back to school even though the return is still timid.

At the Government Primary School Group 2 of Gaikama in Maroua, a teacher attested that he was in school early in the morning when suddenly pupils who arrived started running back home. He said some parents made the situation complicated by accompanying their children back home.

In order to prevent the situation from aggravating, the teacher went from house to house on bike convincing the parents that the said rumour was false. Most of the parents preferred taking back their children home to digest the shock and doubts.

This rumour comes just a week after another had gone viral insinuating that a vaccine meant to kill pupils will soon be introduced.

Source: CRTV

27, November 2017

Of Fru Ndi and the Agbor Balla Press Release ⁰

Dear Editor,

In Africa I remember how we use to arrive at the train stations thirty minutes after the scheduled departure time but were still able to board the train. I was fascinated years after that in Europe, arriving a few minutes after the scheduled departure time had adverse effects. Without exception, whenever I arrived at the train station late, the train had left.

Reading the Press Release from Dr Balla, Fru Ndi and co yesterday regarding the Ambazonia struggle gave me the impression that they have arrived at the train station after the scheduled train had departed. In my estimation they are preachers with no congregations. They should realise that our struggle has taken a diverse bearing. Our people spoke on the 1st Of October and the interim administration has a mandate to implement the demands of our people

This publication arrived a few days after the interim Prime Minister published his first government. You tell me if this is a coincidence. The people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia are level-headed but can’t be taken for fools.

We can all clearly see through this so call press release. This was meant to have a deleterious outcome on the work that the interim government is undertaking. There are challenges ahead for all Ambazonians and no distractions are required at this stage. As we pull together to support our first administration, the efforts of all who intend to disrupt our struggle must be treated with the contempt it deserves. Do they think that this pathetic and morose statement will have any effect in Etoudi? We all know the answer to that.

For a very long time, Ambazonians and people with brains have not taken Fru Ndi any seriously. His partnership with Paul Biya to betray his constituents has been nothing more than a disgrace. Dr Balla has been exposed as compromised and now they have formed a preposterous partnership. One is left with no alternative but to ask Dr Balla’s political party or leaning?

My submission is they are grossly ignoring the fact that the direction of this struggle has left them with no support. They should join the struggle or stay unobtrusive. Their press release carry no influence.

Nso John Bessong

Barcelona, Spain

26, November 2017

Crisis in Ambazonia: Shock as GHS Fontem burns ⁰

Government High School Fontem located in the Ambazonian State of Lebialem was burned on Friday, November 24, 2017. Cameroon Concord News gathered from sources close to the French Cameroun administrative official that flames consumed a good part of the administrative building.

According to French Cameroun news agencies, the fire broke out on the night of Friday around 23:00. An alert was issued to people who were quick to react to save the other buildings of the high school.

The flames were reportedly violent and reduced everything in the office apartment to ashes. One of the teachers who spoke to the media about the incident observed that the computers, chairs, tables and documents were completely consumed by the fire.

The so-called Sous-préfet of Fontem who visited the scene on Saturday morning declared that the origin of the fire is still unknown for the moment, but an investigation was opened to take stock of the situation . Nevertheless, according to one of the school’s discipline masters, the fire was orchestrated by those who want the doors of the institutions to remain closed. Since the beginning of the Anglophone crisis, many schools in the Federal Republic of Amabazonia have been ravaged by flames.

By Eyong Johnson

16, November 2017

President Biya and his two kids reportedly gained admission into ENAM ⁰

The controversial results for the 2017 session of ENAM released today Thursday the 16th of November in Yaounde had the names of President Biya and his two kids; Brenda and Junior.

In one of the most unprecedented action ever taken by a Francophone government minister, the ENAM results were cancelled barely two hours after publication. Tension is reportedly mounting in Yaounde deep within the ruling Beti-Ewondo clan.

We understand a war of words had erupted between the French Cameroun Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reform and the Director-General of ENAM which witnessed a delay in making public the examination results.

This item is still developing

3, November 2017

Ambazonia: Fire breaks out in PSS Bafut campus ⁰

A fire destroyed the dormitory of the Presbyterian Secondary School (PSS) Bafut in the Bamenda County. According to a police source, unidentified men set fire on the building on Wednesday morning. The girls’ dormitory was heavily affected with huge loss of school equipment.

The students were receiving lectures in the classrooms when flames erupted in the dormitory. A Bafut police spokesperson said all the students were safe and sound. “At the moment we do not know the origin of the flames but we believe that it is a criminal act. The investigation opened by the judicial police of Bamenda will certainly prove that, “concluded the police source.

PSS Bafut had been closed for many months due to unrest in Southern Cameroons. After strengthening the security apparatus around Bamenda, the college reopened on August 2017.

By Rita Akana, CCN

13, October 2017

France’s Audrey Azoulay picked as new UNESCO chief ⁰

UNESCO’s executive board has selected former French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay as the new chief of the United Nations’ cultural agency.

Azoulay, who served as a minister under President Francois Hollande, narrowly beat Qatar’s Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari in the final 30-28 vote on Friday.

Azoulay must be approved by UNESCO’s 195 members on November 10.

The 45-year-old Azoulay will succeed Irina Bokova, a Bulgarian who has led the body since 2009.

The voting comes a day after the United States announced that it will withdraw from the UN’s cultural organization, accusing it of “anti-Israel bias.”

US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement on Thursday that Washington would establish an “observer mission” to replace its representation at the Paris-based agency.

“In this time of crisis we need more than ever to support, strengthen and reform UNESCO and not leave it,” Azoulay told journalists, saying she would modernize the agency.

“If I’m confirmed…the first thing I will do is to restore its credibility, restore the faith of its members and its efficiency so it can act,” she added.

UNESCO is known for designating world heritage sites such as Syria’s Palmyra, the Grand Canyon in the US state of Arizona and twenty-two sites in Iran.

Source: Presstv