3, March 2018
Biya regime imposes curfew in the Buea Province amid Anglophone crisis 0
The SouthWest region of Cameroon has imposed a month-long curfew on five out of six divisions / departments according to a release from the office of the governor.
The March 1, 2018 document said the move was important given the exigencies of security, the preservation of peace and the maintenance of law and order.
The affected divisions are Manyu, Meme, Ndian, Lebialem and Kupe-Muanenguba. The only division not under the order is Fako.
The orders were put into four articles as follows:
- That the movement of commercial vehicles and private cars shall, with effect from the date of signature of this order, be prohibited throughout Divisions – South West region from 7 pm in the evening to 6 am in the morning for a period of thirty (30) days renewable.
- That this prohibition shall not be applicable o Ambulances, vehicles of Administrative Authorities and/or Officials of the Forces of the Law and Order carrying out official duties.
- That Senior Divisional Officer, Regional Heads of Defense and Security Forces, Divisional Officers a,d Mayors of the Administrative Units cited above shall be charged, each in their sphere of competence with ensuring the implementation of this order.
- That this order shall be registered and communicated where need be. It was copied to the necessary agencies and signed off by the governor in the region’s capital, Buea.
The curfew order comes barely a week after a similar one was imposed on adjoining North West region. The two – known as the ‘Anglophone regions’ are at the heart of a secessionist attempt to break off from French – majority Cameroon.
Guerilla style attacks by separatists elements have claimed the lives of about twenty-four security officials. People in the region have also fled in their thousands into Nigeria for fear of reprisal attacks from the army.
Source: Africa News
3, March 2018
Fresh wave of ethnic violence kills 49 in Congo-Kinshasa 0
A fresh flare-up of ethnic violence has claimed the lives of at least 49 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri province.
The murders took place overnight in the village of Maze, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Bunia, the capital of the northeastern province of Ituri, which has been wracked by conflict between the Hema and Lendu communities, the government said on Friday.
Alfred Ndrabu Buju from international Catholic charity Caritas said, “We have counted 49 bodies and are still searching for other bodies.”
“A child was admitted this morning in Drodro general hospital, with an arrow in his head,” Buju added.
Interior Minister Henri Mova earlier said 33 were killed in the unrest.
“The provincial governor is on his way to the site of the killings,” Mova said.
Witnesses said the assailants were members of the Lendu community.
“The attackers went into the village and committed a real massacre,” said local activist Banza Charite.
More than 100 people have been killed since the violence erupted in Ituri in mid-December. The unrest has also forced 200,000 people to flee their homes.
More than 28,000 of the displaced have crossed the border into Uganda in recent weeks, according to UN figures, most of them women and children, reporting horrific stories of violence.
Tensions between the Hema cattle herders and Lendu farmers have largely laid dormant since a 1998-2003 war, which claimed the lives of thousands, but have flared again in recent months because of disputes over land.
The United Nations said earlier this year it would seek more than $1.5 billion to respond to the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, warning the violence-torn country was at a “breaking point.”
Source: Presstv