23, July 2022
Cameroonians queue for fuel as shortages hit the capital 0
Scenes like this at gas stations in Cameroon’s capital, jerrycans in hand are becoming commonplace.
Most fuel stations have run out of diesel in recent days and those that have are now rationing it.
“You line up for 4 hours, 5 hours, I’ve been here since 6 o’clock,” said Nkeudeu, a transporter.
“There is already no fuel at other stations and where we find a little bit of petrol, we are told we can’t fill our tanks,” said Moffo Koumeni, a cab driver.
In the wake of scarce supplies of diesel, transporters have increased fares. Prices of goods too are shooting up.
“While the fuel shortage situation is becoming untenable for motorists in the city of Yaoundé and surrounding towns, experts believe that this is a way for the authorities to prepare Cameroonians for a possible increase in fuel prices”, said our correspondent Joel Kouam in Yaounde.
On the international market, oil prices have soared and the state is finding it hard to continue subsidizing fuel.
“The lines you find in the gas stations is an impact. … It is a psychological moment, it is necessary to prepare the Cameroonian citizen for an increase in prices”, said Dr. Youmssi Bareja, an oil and mining expert.
Fuel subsidies cost the Cameroonian state over $1.2 billion a year and Yaounde has come under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stop them.
Source: Africa News
24, July 2022
Biafra attack kills 5 Cameroon gov’t soldiers in Bakassi Peninsula 0
Five members of the Rapid d’intervention Battalion (BIR), a Cameroonian military unit, have been reportedly killed by separatists suspected to be militant members of the Biafra Nations League, BnL.
The personnel of a Cameroonian military unit were said to have invaded the camp of the Biafra group on Saturday morning.
Reports say that men of the BIR, before invading the camp, took down two wooden poles with Biafran flags at about two kilometers away from the separatist camp as at 9 o’clock in the morning in Isangele but were swiftly resisted by the separatist militants.
The separatist militants were said to have first opened fire on the soldiers and killed five officers while it lost one man.
Residents who heard gunshots have reportedly fled their communities for safety.
Local reporters gathered that two military drone cameras were seen flying round the communities yesterday evening before the attack this morning.
The leader of BnL Bakassi Chapter, Ita Bassey confirmed the incident to newsmen. He said that the camp of a self defense partner group was invaded by Cameroon forces this morning.
He said the Cameroonian forces came with three gunboats but did not fire a shot until the boys opened fire on them, “they thought that nobody was in the camp, they wanted to go and take all the arms and ammunition but met their waterloo. As the boys opened fire on them a few kilometers from the camp.”
Source: Daily Post