A senior Manyu political leader has informed the Cameroon Concord News Group that there will be significant political changes in Cameroon in 2025 and that Manyu Division will be a totally different political landscape, as the youths of the Division are calling for change.

The politician, who elected anonymity, said that the current political dispensation in Manyu is hurting the Division as many current political leaders have failed to bring much-needed economic development to the Division whose economy is in the throes of a severe crisis.

He added that the youths of Manyu were already grumbling and looking outwards for that person who would understand their problems and would seek to bring meaningful economic initiatives to the Division.

“We need factories. We need a good hospital. We want our children to go to school in the best possible conditions. We know that the Diaspora can help us, but their help could be coordinated for it to deliver better results and that is why we of Manyu Division are urging members of our Diaspora to participate in the politics of our Division. We need people who will not come to earn a salary. We need people with ideas,” the politician stressed.

“After next year’s presidential election, the people of Manyu should take a look at those who have been representing us at the national level,” the angry politician said, stressing that “we have to look at young people to take over from our current politicians, most of whom have never kept their election promises.”

“Besides the Member of Parliament from Eyumojock, Honorable Teku Tanyi, who is constantly in his constituency to bring hope and some development initiatives, most of our politicians are simply dormant and will only come home when there are elections or when their political interests are at stake,” the angry politician said.

“Elective positions in Manyu should be given to young, dynamic and well to do Manyu men and women who have the Division’s interest at heart. We need people who can bring development to Manyu. We need people who can bring jobs to our youths,” he added.

“We must start looking at young and successful men and women in the Diaspora who can mobilize resources abroad for Manyu development. A few names have already been dropped and we hear that one of two Manyu senatorial seats will go to one of Manyu illustrious sons who have been pushing for Manyu development for decades,” the politician said.

“Our current senator is old, sick and tired and has nothing to show for, given the time he has been at the Senate in Yaounde. The current senator should consider his age and should support any young person who might express an interest in running. Manyu needs change but we want that transition to be smooth and friendly so that there will be peace. However, if the plea of the grassroots is not taken seriously, there will be change and it will be painful,” he stressed

“Manyu needs change and it needs people with a broad and global world view. Manyu needs a political leader who can connect the Division with the Division’s growing Diaspora, especially in North America. Manyu needs a credible person, somebody with great development ideas. We are tired of empty promises. We do not care where the person comes from. We need someone who loves Manyu and his people and based on what I have been hearing, we have someone from North America who will bring us the progress we need,” he pointed out.

“Our Members of Parliament must do more for our people. The people of Manyu are disappointed and they want change and any elected politician who does not deliver will not represent us anymore,” he stressed.

By our Mamfe correspondent Nkongho Philip Agbor

President Paul Biya has become a laughing stock deep inside the Unity Palace, Cameroon Intelligence Report has gathered from a well-placed source in Etoudi.

The CIR source said that Biya is now leading the nation from a wheelchair.

“He has a special wheelchair that he bought in Geneva that takes him around the presidential palace and he intends to rule till 100 years” our source said.

Biya was seen on the mobile chair moving around the presidency after he received some new ambassadors accredited to Cameroon.

The mobile chair, otherwise ordinarily referred to as a wheelchair is assisting the dictator to navigate his way around his office as well as at home in Mvomeka’a.

The Biya wheelchair has now confirmed that old age has taken its toll on the Francophone leader who will turn 92 this coming year.

A top CPDM baron who spoke to this reporter but sued for anonymity said Biya would rule from a wheel chair and then from the grave.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

The Cameroon Renaissance Movement (MRC) has given Maurice Kamto, its declared candidate for the 2025 presidential election, the freedom to decide how he will formally present his candidacy. However, Cameroon’s Constitution offers him three potential paths: securing an endorsement from the MRC, obtaining a nomination from another party, or running as an independent candidate.

This question arises due to the MRC’s boycott of the 2020 local elections, which left the party without elected officials. According to the Constitution, only parties with elected representatives can formally endorse a candidate. Although Kamto argues that elected officials have since joined the MRC—meaning the party could legally nominate him based on Cameroon’s lack of “binding mandates”—this interpretation is disputed. The Constitutional Council could potentially reject the MRC’s right to endorse a candidate under these circumstances.

Securing endorsement from a different party could be the safer route. Several parties within the Political Alliance for Change (APC), a coalition led by MP Jean-Michel Nintcheu, might be willing to endorse him, though the specific parties have not been named. If Kamto takes this route, he would likely choose a party open to an alliance with the MRC, allowing him to leverage the MRC’s political network for his campaign. The MRC has even allocated a confidential campaign budget to support Kamto’s run. “If Maurice Kamto goes left, we all go left. If it’s right, we go right,” a source within the MRC stated.

Running as an independent candidate is the last and most challenging option. This would require Kamto to gather 300 signatures from prominent individuals across Cameroon’s ten regions, including members of parliament, senators, municipal and regional councilors, and traditional chiefs. Since most of these figures are affiliated with the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM), this task would be especially difficult.

The clock is ticking, and Maurice Kamto shows no signs of urgency. Remarkably, his colleagues have not imposed a deadline for his decision.

Source: Sbbc

Aboubakary Abdoulaye, the first vice-president of the Senate, signed a decree on October 23 calling for the Senate to meet in November. This is unusual, as it is typically the Senate president, Marcel Niat Njifenji, who signs such decrees.

“The president is once again getting medical treatment abroad,” a parliamentary source said.

The absence of the upper house president has sometimes affected how the Senate works. During the March session, the Senate’s leadership team couldn’t be renewed for several days because the outgoing president was away. Sources in the Senate said he was recovering abroad and could not run for reelection.

The decree signed by the first vice-president aims to prevent further delays. Aboubakary Abdoulaye, a senator appointed by the ruling party CPDM and the powerful lamido of Rey Bouba in the North region, has been leading Senate debates for several years. Marcel Niat Njifenji, also an appointed senator from the Western region, usually only oversees the opening sessions.

The November session is expected to focus mainly on reviewing and approving the 2025 budget proposal presented by the executive. It will feature a general policy speech by the Prime Minister, followed by oral questioning sessions for government members. This speech, a key moment of the November session, will provide an overview of the government’s socioeconomic and cultural actions over the past year and outline the main directions for the next fiscal year.

Source: Sbbc

Cameroonians have been waiting for the return of their president, Paul Biya, but from every indication, Mr. Biya will not be coming back to continue ruling the country. He clearly belongs to the past as major questions emerge about his health and life.

Mr. Biya was last seen in public on 8 October 2024 while attending the China-Africa Summit. After leaving China, Mr. Biya stopped over in Europe where he is in a hospital receiving intensive care for multiple health conditions.

A coded online message by the 91-year-old dictator’s daughter, Brenda Biya, which shows only drops of tears on a piece of paper has gone viral, with many Cameroonians saying that the brutal dictator is dead and it is time for   the country’s Prime Minister, Dion Ngute, to step up to the plate to deliver a rousing speech which will hold the country together and avoid any bloodshed.

Since disappearing from public view some 40 days ago, many, both at home and abroad, have been positing that Mr. Biya is either dead or dying and it is time to declare Biya a former president of Cameroon.

There is a lot of anger in Cameroon, especially against the President’s wife, Chantal Biya, who approved Mr. Biya’s long and tiring trips abroad.

Before heading to China, Mr. Biya had to go to France to watch the Olympic Games and he did so in the rain, an act many observers criticized as preposterous for an old man who was frail and fragile.

From France he returned to Cameroon before heading to China, a long trip that is not designed for old people. Mr. Biya had nothing to prove to anybody. He has won all the presidential elections in his country through massive rigging schemes, making him an evil genius.

He has willfully underdeveloped Cameroon, reducing the country to a humanitarian case; a beautiful and wealthy country handed to him by the country’s first president, Ahmadou Ahidjo in good faith.

Mr. Biya is a champion in the embezzlement of funds and a huge destroyer of taxpayers’ money. In 42 years, Biya has not developed the country’s infrastructure. There are no modern tarred roads in Cameroon. Hospitals are nothing more than consultation clinics and corruption has been institutionalized to ensure that the destructive dictator last in power.

Today, the country’s economy is in very bad shape. The country’s youths have been reduced to beggars, with many taking to alcohol and drugs just to numb their pain and frustration. Most Cameroonians want to leave the country as the future appears very bleak. The name Biya only suggests hardship and inhumanity.

The country’s youths want to walk away from their country just to put an ugly past far behind them due to the corruption and incompetence of a man who was once seen as a liberator by Cameroonians.

Mr. Biya will not be returning to Cameroon as the country’s president. Cameroon Concord News has obtained reliable information that Mr. Biya is brain dead and he is on life support. There are plans to pull him off life support in the days ahead, though his wife is opposed to such a move as she is maneuvering and plotting to see how she can influence the choice of the next president of the country.

Chantal like the French want to impose Franck Biya on Cameroonians but there is massive opposition within Mr. Biya’s ruling party and there are fears that things are falling apart for a party which has been the architect of the economic hardship which has reduced Cameroonians to walking zombies.

Many Cameroonians at home and abroad are urging Prime Minister Dion Ngute, himself a Biya creation, to take matters into his hands. The country’s business must continue with or without Biya. A brain dead Biya cannot continue to lead the country.

While there are no limits as to how long the president can be out of the country, Cameroonians hold that a 91-year-old and sickly person cannot continue to hold an entire nation captive. Biya has already proven that he is a negative force and he should be dumped on the ash heap of history.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai