Progress, Setbacks in the Fight against African Militant Islamist Groups in 2018

Progress, Setbacks in the Fight against African Militant Islamist Groups in 2018

Published on 30.01.2019

A review of violent events involving militant Islamist groups in Africa in 2018 reveals the following trends: Militant Islamist group activity in Africa remains primarily concentrated in four theaters: Somalia, the Lake Chad Basin, the Sahel (Central Mali and border areas), and Egypt. However, the number of groups active in…

Opinion column
Mancho Bibixy, Cameroonian activist in Bamenda, November 2016 © All rights reserved

Is Cameroon gradually becoming another Rwanda?
Published on 09.01.2019
When the international community ignores ethnic cleansing, it often ends up with a massive bill. If history teaches us anything about averting our eyes from…
Ideas
Some representatives of women associations in Kousseri

Defining The Narrative – Celebrating Our Women!
Published on 09.01.2019
March is a transition month. In many parts of the world, it represents the true end of year-end festivities, and the beginning of other sets…
Ideas
Peter Essoka, President of the national communication council, NCC ©All rights reserved

Cameroon: Conference for communication regulatory Agencies in Africa opens today
Published on 12.12.2018
A conference for communication regulatory Agencies in Africa opens today in Yaounde. The conference which in its 9th edition, has been placed under auspices of…
Ideas

Only Accelerated job creation, integration can save Africa-Expert
Published on 06.12.2018
Professor Paul Collier, one of the world's most influential development economists, warns that Africa's “easy decade” of accelerated economic growth is coming to an end,…

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WHO Experts on why HIV epidemic is not over

Fear, stigma and ignorance. That is what defined the HIV epidemic that raged through the world in the 1980s, killing…
Published on 04.12.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
Dr. Fomunyoh’s proposals to end crisis in NW,SW regions

Dr Christopher Fomunyoh, Regional Director at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, has presented ten points which to him,…
Published on 21.11.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
I ran for president in Cameroon. Here’s what I learnt

Cameroon’s electoral system is deeply lopsided. Citizens will only stand for that so long. On 6 November, Paul Biya was…
Published on 15.11.2018 par Akere Muna Opinion column
Cameroon: Divisions Widen Ahead of Presidential Vote

What's new? Cameroon’s presidential election on 7 October comes at a tense moment. The country is torn between the fight against…
Published on 04.10.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
2018 Presidential election:Opposition alliance this weekend or no more

One week of campaigning. Another week to go. Half way the official race covered. It's time for candidates to know…
Published on 28.09.2018 par Franklin Sone Bayen* Opinion
Attack on ‘sex’ textbook reveal Cameroonians still consider CSE a taboo topic

Cameroonians went wild recently with rage after it was revealed that a text book titled “L’excellence en Sciences” which has…
Published on 25.09.2018 par Marriane Enow Tabi Ideas
International Crisis Group commends proposed AAC III

Following the deaths of at least 400 civilians over the past year in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions, an Anglophone community conference…
Published on 18.09.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
Ayah Paul blasts SW elites’ call to militarise region

The call by elites of the South West region for the Goverment to deploy more troops to maintain peace and…
Published on 28.08.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Cameroon’s Anglophone population at risk

There is a growing risk of mass atrocity crimes due to increasing violence between government security forces and armed separatists…
Published on 23.08.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Report highlights evidence of atrocities in Cameroon

The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect has published a report which shows evidence of atrocities commited by security…
Published on 16.08.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
Anglophone General Conference inevitable-Ayah Paul Abine

For reasons impossible to explain naturally, I chose yesterday, July 31, 2018, to state my stance on AAC III. Just…
Published on 02.08.2018 par Ayah Paul Abine (Magistrate) Opinion column
AU concerned about Cameroon’s security situation

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat says the African Union is is concerned about the security…
Published on 17.07.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
Can Cameroon Become an Emerging Economy by 2035?

Cameroon aspires to become an emerging economy by 2035. She plans to achieve this through: implementing an ambitious industrialization strategy;…
Published on 21.06.2018 par Dr Fuein Vera Kum (Economist) Opinion column
UN’s emergency response plan for crisis stricken Cameroon

Evolution of the crisis The crisis in the South-West and North-West Regions of Cameroon has compounded pre-existing vulnerabilities. Since 2016,…
Published on 29.05.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
Cameroon: US Ambassador’s statement on Anglophone crisis, elections

After meeting with President Biya ,ay 17, US Ambassador to Cameroon, Peter Barlerin's statement to press focused on US cooperative…
Published on 18.05.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
World family day: UN chief says family is key in achieving SDGs

Cameroonians today join the world over to commemorate world family day under the them;"Families and inclusive societies". Family day is…
Published on 15.05.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
National Day: Presidential acts to ensure unity

Cameroonians will on May 20, 2018, celebrate the 46th National Day. Apologists of the regime say the day placed under…
Published on 14.05.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
WB approves approves fund to support refugees, host ommunities in Cameroon

The World Bank approved an International Development Association (IDA)* package of $274 million today for four projects focusing on helping…
Published on 07.05.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
2018 Labour Day: What hope for Cameroonian workers?

Cameroonian workers on May 1, joined millions of workers all over the world to mark the 132nd edition of the international labour…
Published on 02.05.2018 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
Ban on Political Debates: Cameroon wants democracy but practices the opposite

Cameroon’s media regulator, dubbed the National Communication Council, NCC, has once again, banned political debates on air in the build-up…
Published on 14.03.2018 par Marriane Enow Tabi Ideas
Akere Muna entreats Francophones to support protesting Anglophones

The Indivisible Nature of Freedom “Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all…
Published on 16.08.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
Amnesty International, Human Rights & Cameroon’s Military

Issa Tchiroma’s vituperative outbursts and banal aspersions cast on Amnesty International was bad politics, even more so, as the language…
Published on 10.08.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Anglophone leadership blamed for slow action!

“Yes Cameroonians of the English extraction have been on school strike for circa one academic year but her leadership…
Published on 09.08.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
“Structural Adjustment: Not Again!” – Hon Fobi Nchinda Simon, SDF MP

Hon Fobi Nchinda Simon, SDF Member of Parliament for the Bamenda/Bali Constituency is vehemently against another structural adjustment program for…
Published on 09.08.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Disaster risks of plastic waste on agriculture, climate change

In Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon alone, 50 metric tons of plastic fragments food packages, straws and table water bottles and…
Published on 04.08.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Ideas
Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis at the crossroad

The Anglophones of Cameroon, 20 per cent of the population, feel marginalised. Their frustrations surfaced dramatically at the end of…
Published on 04.08.2017 par Crisis group Ideas
Deacon Tassang’s second epistle to Dr Munzu

Dear Dr Munzu, Cheers. For all the fine writing and defence, you still have not made the point. Am surprised…
Published on 24.07.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Dr Simon Munzu fires back at Wilfred Tassang

Dear Wilfred, I am the one who should be asking: “Do you really hate me this much”? My comfort in…
Published on 24.07.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Tassang, Dr Munzu clash over Southern Cameroons’ independence struggle

Wilfred Tassang, one of the leaders spearheading from exile, the on-going protests in English-speaking Cameroon is currently in a war…
Published on 24.07.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Refugees Need More Than Progressive Policy: Lessons from Cameroon

While Uganda has been touted as Africa’s model for refugee policy, Cameroon also has forward-thinking laws for the displaced. But,…
Published on 20.07.2017 par Veronique Barbelet Ideas