Cameroon

Cameroon has not completely eased its fight against polio, but despitebeing declared free of the disease earlier this year. It has launched an immunization drive against a specific virus strain. Kenya, too, has pushed the regional trend and seen an elephant baby boom. But despite the promising number, the species remains vulnerable. And we see how students in Libya are caught between conflict and…

Woungly Massaga, revolutionary pan-Africanist, figure in the armed struggle for Cameroon's independence, died on Saturday 17 October in Yaoundé at the age of 84. Nicknamed "Commander Kissamba", Woungly Massagafut in the late 1960s, one of the leaders of this independence movement that was in conflict with the Cameroonian power Ahamadou Ahidjo and France. He died in Yaoundé on Saturday, October 17, at the age of 84. In the early 1970s, he revived the UPC, a party founded to gain Carmoun's independence after the…

When we postpone this case to two weeks, this obviously presupposes that, during these two weeks, President Kamto will still be assigned his home without any court order without any administrative order. This attack will therefore continue for at least two more weeks, and we cannot admit that a Cameroonian is kept at home with his family and home staff without food, without medicine, for that long. In the meantime, we, the lawyers, are thinking of other procedures that we can initiate so that this measure is effectively…

In tonight's version: Forward of Ivory Coast's tense presidential election on October 31, the opposition has requested supporters to boycott the election course of. there are fears that opposition to President Alassane Ouattara's bid for a controversial third time period may result in clashes. And in Guinea, voter expectation is excessive because the financial system continues to be in disaster. And…

In an announcement launched on October 12, UN human rights consultants known as on Cameroon to launch opponent Maurice Kamto, the chief of the MRC, whose residence is surrounded by police and gendarmerie, and other people arrested throughout the September 22 demonstrations. In an announcement learn by the Minister of Communications and authorities spokesman René Emmanuel Sadi, the Cameroonian authorities imagine that March 22 was not "peaceable". .

Father Ludovic Lado left Douala on Monday for the capital Yaoundé, which he expected to reach on October 22. A "pilgrimage" according to him was intended to promote "peace" in the English-speaking northeast and northwest country. The Jesuit also planned to meet the spokesman for the opponent Maurice Kamto. But the police did not give him the opportunity. The religious were arrested on Tuesday, October 13 and driven back to Douala. It was around noon. 18 Tuesday when police brought Ludovic Lado back to the front row. Not…

UN human rights experts are calling for the release of the main opposition leader Maurice Kamto and those arrested during protests organized by the opposition last month. In a press release, UN experts call on Yaoundé to release the president of Cameroon's Renaissance movement, Maurice Kamto, blocked in his home since Sept. 22. Officially, he is not the subject of any arrest warrant or house arrest, but according to his lawyers, he cannot leave his home. His residence is surrounded by hundreds of elements from the…

Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian heard from the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly on Wednesday and reacted to Alassane Ouattara's candidacy before also giving his opinion on the situation in Cameroon. Communist Deputy Jean-Paul Lecoq first asked the Foreign Minister what France's position was on Alassane Ouattara's candidacy. Response from Jean-Yves Le Drian: “Me, I am not responsible for assessing the new constitution for Côte d'Ivoire. That would really be interference. And you know very well, Mr Lecoq,…

Cameroonian opponent Maurice Kamto is still stranded at his residence in Yaoundé. As for the hundreds of protesters arrested on September 22, most were released. Nevertheless, hundreds are being prosecuted and the charges are heavy. Maurice Kamto's lawyers filed a motion on Monday, October 5, asking the judicial authority to order lifting of the blockade around the opponent's villa. The request was immediately denied. Lawyers are now planning to call authorities for "assault". Heavy loads for a hundred opponents…

In the two English-speaking regions of southern Cameroon, the country's regular army has been fighting the armed groups in an asymmetric war for the past three years. In October 2017, English-speaking separatists declared an outbreak state known as "Ambazonia". The armed uprising has turned into a guerrilla war that kills thousands of people, displaces nearly 700,000 more and leaves millions of civilians captured. FRANCE 24 gives you a rare glimpse of one of Africa's forgotten humanitarian tragedies. .