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Cross section of the Congo Basin Forest in Cameroon. Photo credits: UNDP Cameroon

A spotlight can help save the Cameroon Forest
Published on 22.09.2019
Today, as the United Nations is preparing for the UN Climate Action Summit that will take place on 23 September 2019, leaders of the world…
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John Fru Ndi, SDF Chair ©All rights reserved

Cameroon:How Fru Ndi Got it all Wrong on Ngala Gerard
Published on 07.06.2019
On Sunday June 2nd, 2019 Fru Ndi was guest on Media Prime TV’s flagship programme The Point with ace journalist/Tv host Kum Leonard. In the…
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Cameroon:Ayah Paul takes swipe at Kah Walla, insists separatists picked arms for self defence
Published on 23.04.2019
Former Advocate General at the Supreme Court Ayah Paul Abine has taken a thinly veiled swipe at Edith Kah Walla for criticising separatist activists who…
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Cameroon soldiers dismantle camp of suspected separatists

Cameroon:Soldiers, Ambazonia separatists responsible for atrocities in Anglophone regions
Published on 22.04.2019
Soldiers loyal to the Biya regime as well as separatist fighters are all guilty of the deteriorating situation in the North West and South West…

Is Cameroon gradually becoming another Rwanda?

When the international community ignores ethnic cleansing, it often ends up with a massive bill. If history teaches us anything…
Published on 09.01.2019 par Rebecca Tinsley Opinion column
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Macron’s Election, the Anglophone Problem and the Generational Question (1)

A democratic revolution is under way in France, while Cameroon is stuck in political sclerosis and inertia with an insipid…
Published on 13.07.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Duplicative legislation: ‘go for before, for back…’

Going by the Decree creating the National Commission for bilingualism and multiculturalism, and specifically, its Section 3(2), Chapter II, it…
Published on 12.07.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Recent presidential appointments: Does Biya Really Hear Well?

Unlike many conscious or better still good hearing people would have expected, recent presidential appointments point to the ascertaining of…
Published on 07.07.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Cameroon has always treated us as foreigners, as Nigerians-Boh Herbert

Things Are Falling in Place (a response to Barrister Akere Muna’s “Things Fall Apart”) Sincere thanks to Barrister Akere Muna…
Published on 05.07.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
The way to peace, unity cannot be paved by the arrogant use of power- Akere Muna

THINGS FALL APART… HOW DO WE START HEALING ? Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear…
Published on 04.07.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Good governance advocates in Africa focus on repression in Cameroon

This past December, the world watched as citizens went to the polls in what would become a historic election in Gambia. Incredibly,…
Published on 15.06.2017 par Hayley Elszasz Opinion column
The Anglophone Problem – When Facts don’t Lie

A preacher once told his congregation: "Next week, I plan to preach about the sin of lying. To help you…
Published on 12.06.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Solutions to resolve the Anglophone problem

First of all, it is important to diagnose fairly the rather harmful impact of this crisis. Even if the crisis…
Published on 07.06.2017 par Christopher Fomunyoh Opinion column
Federalism is inscribed in the Constitution and the Penal Code

Article 68 of the Constitution and Section 101 of the Penal Code acknowledge Cameroon is a Federated State; hence sundry…
Published on 30.05.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Only a transitional government, without Biya, can save Cameroon

My country, Cameroon, is in the process of committing suicide. Compare the country to a large truck racing down a…
Published on 29.05.2017 par Dr. Denis Foretia Opinion column
The role of women in financial leadership in Africa

Africa’s business landscape is a complex arena of evolving trends and discarded stereotypes. In recent years, we have seen advancement…
Published on 23.05.2017 par Viola Llewellyn, Ovamba Opinion column
Memory Lane (May 9, 2015): Common Law Lawyers in Cameroon Call for a Return to Federalism

On May 9 2015, lawyers from the Common Law jurisdictions of Cameroon met in Bamenda to discuss "The security and…
Published on 10.05.2017 par Dibussi Tande Opinion column
Decentralisation is not a solution to the anglophone problem in Cameroon-Akere Muna

I write this article against the backdrop of popular demand to clarify public opinion on the two concepts of Decentralization…
Published on 02.05.2017 par Barrister Akere Muna Opinion column
2017 Labour Day: What hope for Cameroonian workers?

Cameroonian workers will on May 1, join millions of workers all over the world to mark the 131st edition of the…
Published on 26.04.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Eric Chinje on Cameroon’s political crisis

The responsibility of our time is nothing less than a revolution – a revolution that would be peaceful if we…
Published on 21.04.2017 par Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
Internet blackout in bid to stifle protests in Cameroon

The Internet ban on Cameroon's English-speaking population is cause for great concern in the language dispute, writes Azad Essa. Millions…
Published on 06.04.2017 par Azad Essa Opinion column
The EU and UK ought to know better; The crisis in the Cameroons is not an ‘internal affair’, it’s a problem of annexation and crime

According to the writer, the on-going crisis in English-speaking Cameroon cannot be solved through ‘effective decentralization’ but through a broad-based…
Published on 04.04.2017 par Akoson Raymond Opinion column