Tumi

Remember him as someone who was deeply patriotic and then tolerant, because we had a very divisive political climate. Cameroon loses or has lost someone who had the courage to say what he thought, he preached a lot for dialogue. I think the problem that the government had is that many leaders or many ministers fought to slander Cardinal Tumi, but they found out that the cardinal was really someone who was tolerant and wanted dialogue. Elie Smith, one…

Christian Tumi, Archbishop Emeritus of Douala died on Saturday, April 3, in a hospital in Douala. It was his successor, Monsignor Kléda, who announced it this morning in a press release. The 91-year-old prelate was one of Cameroon's greatest voices and moral authority. In recent years, he has been particularly involved in finding a way out of the crisis in the conflict the country is going through.…

The first regional elections must take place at the end of the week in Cameroon, in particular to give more autonomy to the English-speaking regions. For Cardinal Christian Tumi, former Archbishop of Douala, we must go further. It was a promise as a result of the great national debate a year ago in Cameroon. The first regional…

In Cameroon, Cardinal Christian Tumi has been released, according to several sources. Archbishop Emeritus of Douala was abducted on Thursday around noon. 18 in the English-speaking northwest of the country on the road between Bamenda and Koumbo. If Monsignor Tumi was released, the ten people who were kidnapped at the same time as him near Kumbo are still in the hands of the kidnappers.…

Cardinal Christian Tumi was kidnapped this afternoon by a group of armed men on the road between Bamenda and Kumbo. The Cardinal and Fon, the king of Kumbo, were captured in Baba by a certain general of the Ambazonians, his nom de guerre is Chaomao. I called the son of the King of Kumbo, who also confirmed to me that it is Chaomao, a former priest, because he complained that the cardinal was urging the children to go to school. Because for them, if school starts, it is a sign of normalization.…