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Breaking News! Media: Mimi Mefo Leaves Cameroon Permanently! Cameroonian journalist Mimi Mefo has left Cameroon. According to information obtained from nearby sources, the now ex-Equinoxe TV reporter has settled in Europe.  Mimi Mefo Takambou, an English-speaking journalist at EquinoxeTV, was recently locked up and later released by Cameroonian authorities who accused him of publishing a “fake news” about the Cameroonian army killing an American pastor in the English-speaking area. 

Cameroon: Communication Minister vows to help press become more respectable, credible Receiving New Year wishes from the Cameroonian press Wednesday, January 30th ,   2019, Rene Emmanuel Sadi, Cameroon’s Minister of Communication promised to improve synergy with both public and private press in the bid to ease the communication process. One of the goals of the newly appointed Communication Minister Rene Emmanuel Sadi is to set an improved framework between his ministry and every other ministry so that information on what the government does in each of these ministries, be effectively communicated by pressmen to the public. To ensure the implementation of this mission, Rene Emmanuel Sadi says he will sensitize the different ministers to regularly send information on what is happening in their ministries, which will later be made available for public consumption. According to Minister Rene Emmanuel Sadi, the synergy with the private sector of communication will help me...

Cameroon: EU urges gov’t to engage in inclusive dialogue with dissenting voices The European Union has called on the government of Cameroon to engage in inclusive dialogue as the only solution to help the country come out of its current social impact. The EU released a statement on Thursday in a week marked by the arrest of Maurice Kamto and over 100 protesters who took to the streets in at least four cities in the country. “Demonstrations have taken place in recent days in several cities of Cameroon. They resulted in disproportionate use of force by security forces and multiple arrests, including leaders of the main opposition party,”Maja Kocijancic, EU Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy said. “Similarly, violent incidents by protesters were recorded against some embassies of Cameroon abroad. The solution to the major challenges facing the country can only be found through dialogue, in a calm and inclusive context, where fundamental freedoms and th...

Cameroon: Two journalists detained with Kamto finally released Two Cameroonian journalists who were arrested in Douala on Monday alongside opposition figure Maurice Kamto were finally freed on Friday. David Eyengue and Theodore Tchopa of  Le Jour  newspaper were released from their detention cells at the Special Operations Unit of the Police on Friday just after noon and received by their publisher Haman Mana. The journalists were arrested at the residence of Albert Dzongang, an ally of Maurice Kamto as they were to the field to verify news of the arrest of the leader of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement. Calls had multiplied from various quarters for their release with the Cameroon Journalists Trade Union condemning their arrests and calling on authorities to free them. The Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ had equally condemned the arrests and urged Cameroonian authorities to protect journalists and not intimidate them in the exercise of their duties. ...

Cameroon: SDF cancels protest march in Yaounde The Social Democratic Front has finally canceled a protest march that was initially scheduled to take place today in Yaounde. The Chairman of the SDF for the Centre Region Emmanuel Ntonga called on party supporters in the region to stay home today after the Senior Divisional Officer of the Mfoundi Jean Claude Tsila banned all public activities with a political undertone. The SDF initially scheduled the march alongside that of a group that had been granted authorization to march and denounce the protests last weekend in the country and the diaspora that saw protesters invade Cameroon’s embassies in Paris and Berlin. The SDF said the decision to grant an authorization for such a march was discriminatory given that administrative authorities are quick to ban any groupings by opposition parties. SDF Centre Regional Chairman Emmanuel Ntonga called on authorities to shun all discriminatory practices and allow all parties to expr...

Ambazonia: Acting President Dr. Sako Ikome addresses Southern Cameroonians, Full Speech God bless you My Fellow Ambazonians, Following the abduction of our President H.E. Sisiku Ayuk Tabe Julius and some members of his cabinet, I was mandated by our people to be Acting President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia; To fly their pride as a people above the tallest of mountains and sit it at the foot of the Mount Fako in Buea; To systematically and robustly prosecute a war that was already two months old as was declared upon us by the octogenarian President Paul Biya of La République du Cameroun on the 30th of November 2017. One of my goals was to reunite forces within and between all our great freedom fighters at home and abroad. To harness a collective momentum in the actualization of our independence restoration movement, and to plant our flag at the Prime Minister’s lodge in Buea in due time, peradventure, if God forbid, our President H.E. Sisik...

Bangourain Attacks: this is what Atanga Nji told people Arrival at Bangourain, this locality located in the department of Noun Western Region, scene of an attack attributed to Ambazonian separatists last Sunday having a death and incediated houses, the Minister of Territorial Administration has made material donations to these populations. He reassured these people that calm will come with the reinforcement of security. "Bangourain will be reinforced in elements of gendarmerie, defense forces and police and highwaymen will be hunted down, that the populations remain on the spot." A promised Atanga Nji The attacks have become the daily life of populations living in the English-speaking area. Populations are caught between two fires. On the one hand the Islamic sect Boko Harama and on the other hand the secessionists. Many flee the fighting to seek refuge in neighboring Nigeria for some and others in the bush.