By Basil K Mbuye Following the socio-political crisis that had characterised the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon of recent, there had been a series of government crackdowns on anyone suspected of instigating, perpetuating, supporting or sympathesising with any of the fundamental causes that gave rise to the crisis. This rigorous net of crackdown has been…
The Minister of Higher Education, Chancellor of Academic Orders, Jacque Fame Ndongo has said the 500,000 laptops, a Presidential grant to students of state universities and those of private higher institutions of learning will arrive Cameroon in December 2017. The information was contained in a press release made public after an audience granted to the…
Talks are rife in the nation’s political capital Yaounde that Cameroon will finally host the 2019 African Cup of Nations, AFCON. This new found optimism comes on the heels of the recent resolutions arrived at during the Confederation of African Football’s, CAF, Executive Committee meeting in Rabat, Morocco. Shortly after the publication of the resolutions,…
The Southwest Chiefs’ Conference, SWECC, for quite some time now has witnessed cracks within, splitting it into camps. The camps depend on who the custodians of tradition publicly back, whoever they pledge their allegiance to, as well as who best serves their interests. The rift between the Chiefs has been compounded by the delayed election…
The use of a ship from the Cameroon Shipyard and Engineering Company Ltd (Chantier Naval) to pull out of the sea the sunk BIR Ship and facilitate the recovery of bodies of some 34 soldiers and civilians, was apparently abandoned on July 22. Security sources monitoring the recovery efforts told The Post on Sunday, July…
The Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, has accused Amnesty International, AI, of playing the role of an organisation for the defence of terrorist interest. The Minister of Communication and Government Spokesperson made the pronouncement during a press conference on July 21 in Yaounde. The accusation followed AI’s report published on June 20, accusing Cameroon…
Ni John Fru Ndi, leader of frontline opposition SDF party in Cameroon, has told a visiting United Nations team that, if President Biya remains intransigent regarding the ongoing Anglophone Crisis, it will not be long for the country to disintegrate. “Biya has given deaf ears to the release of Anglophone detainees and other grievances articulated…
