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President Paul Biya's press kit related to Cameroon's participation at the 71st Ordinary Session of the UN General Assembly.
The UN General Assembly will host a high-level summit to address large movements of refugees and migrants, with the aim of bringing countries together behind a more humane and coordinated approach.
This is the first time the General Assembly has called for a summit at the Heads of State and Government level on large movements of refugees and migrants and it is a historic opportunity to come up with a blueprint for a better international response. It is a watershed moment to strengthen governance of international migration and a unique opportunity for creating a more responsible, predictable system for responding to large movements of refugees and migrants.
According to UNHCR statistics for 2009, 99,957 refugees and individuals in refugee-like situations were resident in Cameroon.Fifty-thousand people from the Central African Republic live at the Garoua Boulaye refugee camp in eastern Cameroon. Some have been there since conflict in the C.A.R. erupted in 2013.
Over the past year, the governments of Nigeria and Cameroon have pushed back Boko Haram insurgents in north-east Nigeria and northern Cameroon, bringing greater security in some areas. But the insurgency remains a major threat to peace in the region.
The conflict has forced more than 200,000 people to flee to Cameroon, Chad and Niger following attacks on their villages in Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. The conflict has since 2014 spilled over into Cameroon, where some 170,000 Cameroonians are internally displaced in the north.
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At the invitation of His Excellency BAN KI-MOON, Secretary General of the United Nations, His Excellency Paul BIYA, President of the Republic of Cameroon, left Yaounde on Friday 16 September 2016, by mid-day, accompanied by his wife, Madam Chantal BIYA, to participate at the 71st Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly to hold in New York, in the United States of America.
The Head of State is accompanied on this occasion by the Official Delegation as stated below:
-Mr. Lejeune MBELLA MBELLA, Minister of External Relations;
-Mr. Martin BELINGA EBOUTOU, Director of the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic;
-Mr. René Emmanuel SADI, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation;
-Mr. Louis Paul MOTAZE, Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development;
-Mr. Paul ATANGA NJI, Minister in Charge of Missions at the Presidency of the Republic;
-Mr. ALIM HAYATOU, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Public Health, in charge of the fight against Epidemics and Pandemics;
-Mr. Luc SINDJOUN, Special Adviser at the Presidency of the Republic;
-Rear Admiral Joseph FOUDA, Special Adviser to the President of the Republic;
-Mr. Henri ETOUNDI ESSOMBA, Ambassador of Cameroon to the United States of America;
-Mr. TOMMO MONTHE, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Cameroon at the United Nations;
-Mr. Simon Pierre BIKELE, Chief of State Protocol.
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Three Ministers and a Special Advisor are still living at Hôtel Mont Febe in Yaounde, 11 months after President Biya appointed them.
Biya appointed the officials on October 11, 2015 through Decree No. 2015/434 of October 2, 2015; they are the Minister of External Relations, Lejeune Mbella Mbella, the Minister of Secondary Education, Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe, and the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of the Supreme State Control, Mrs. Rose Mbah Acha.
Also still lodging at Hotel Mont Febe is the Former Government Delegate to Bertoua Urban Council, Dieudonné Samba, who was appointed as Special Adviser to the President.
The Post learnt that the four dignitaries are still cooped at Hôtel Mont Febe because the Minister of State Property and Land Tenure, Mrs. Jacqueline Koung à Bessike, has not allocated to them state-owned houses.
We gathered that the Minister has not been able to find suitable houses for these personalities because Government lacks houses to lodge its members. Tutu Muna Refuses To Quit
In a related story, The Post learnt that Mrs. Koung à Bessike allocated to the new Minister of External Relations the mansion where ex-Minister of Arts and Culture, Ama Tutu Muna, was lodged at Bastos.
But Muna reportedly refused to leave, claiming that she had made arrangements to buy the house.
According to reports, Tutu Muna reportedly said she had already started paying for the house hence; it had become her private property.
When the Minister tried to mount pressure for Muna to quit the house, Muna reportedly wrote a complaint to the Presidency where she ‘has a powerful contact’, forcing the Minister of State Property and Land Tenure to drop the issue.
Meanwhile, the four senior state officials had been living outside Yaounde before their appointment.
Mbella Mbella who was Cameroon’s Ambassador to France, was living in Paris; Ngalle Bibehe was based in Douala as an economic operator; Mrs. Rose Mbah Acha was the President of the Regional Administrative Court of the Northwest, living in Bamenda and Dieudonne’ Samba was part based in Bertoua.
These officials are said to be going through tough times, living in the hotel. For one thing, they have been separated from their families for 11 months now.
On the other hand, Hôtel Mont Febe is not lodging the dignitaries for free. A suit at the hotel costs over FCFA 150.000.
Even if the hotel has to make a reduction for long stay, it would not bill the Government less than FCFA 500,000 a day for the foursome.
Gov’t Houses For Grabs
Some years ago, Government constructed many houses in Yaounde at high-class quarters like Bastos, Mballa 11 and ‘Quartier Generale’, among others.
But it turned out that Government officials lodged in these houses later grabbed the facilities with the complicity of some corrupt officials in the Ministry of State Property and Land Tenure.
These dubious tenants-turned-landlords claim that they bought those state owned houses, even though officially, those houses were not constructed for sale.
It has in fact been a big racket in high places, by which some senior state officials share to themselves state properties. They allegedly bought some of the houses for as cheap as FCFA 10 million.
Marafa’s Case
The Government, for example, reportedly spent over FCFA 100 million to build a mansion close to the Gendarmerie Headquarters (SED) in Yaounde.
That house was allocated to the former Secretary General at the Presidency and former Minister of State for Territorial Administration, Marafa Hamidou Yaya.
The former Minister, who jailed at SED for embezzlement of funds, ‘bought’ that mansion.
Some sources claim that Marafa bought the house for a meager FCFA 10 million. This kind of mafia goes for Government vehicles.
For instance, it may buy a brand new Land Cruiser for a Ministry at over FCFA 50 million. But after barely two or three years, a Minister will compensate one of his loyal collaborators by ‘dashing’ him the vehicle for a small amount of FCFA 5 million or even FCFA 3 million.
Source:Cameroonpost
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It is alleged that the tablets are part of a modernization project in schools. A project initiated in 2001 with the introduction of digital lessons with the creation of Multimedia Resource Centres in some schools.
" In short, the 2016/2017 school year is on track and those students who are in classes of examinations should be aware that the examination is prepared during the first day of school, "said MINESEC .
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After postponing his trip twice, the head of State of Cameroon will be leaving Yaounde in the coming hours for an indefinite stay in Europe, according to sources at the presidential palace in Yaounde and Nsimalen International airport.
The city center of Yaounde has been put on hold with heavily armed presidential guards blocking the entire stretch of road leading from the presidential palace right up to Nsimalen Airport.
Reportedly, Paul Biya Biya will be heading to Switzerland, where his family is.Sources say the President is travelling abroad to bring home his wife and children from holidays.
Paul Biya regularly veers off to Switzerland for some cooling off each time he leaves Cameroon for an official visit to Europe. His stays in the Alpine country don't come cheap. Some years back, the French press published reports indicating that the Biya entourage was spending $40,000 a day on 43 hotel rooms.
It is hardly ever announced when Biya leaves Cameroon, but his stage-managed homecomings always receive rapturous publicity. Droves of supporters chanting ego-enhancing, masturbatory messages and clad in fabrics with his smiling face embossed on them swarm the Yaoundé Nsimalen Airport.
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Some 13 now former hostages kidnapped by Central African rebels in the East region last March 19, 2015 have been received by Prime Minister Philemon Yang. The PM conveyed the message of the head of state to the former captives led by the Mayor of Lagdo, MAMA Abakai. They were received by Philemon yang, flanked by his close aides, including Communication minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary.
The event has been described as neglect on the part of Paul Biya, observers hold that Mr Biya is interested in receiving only ex foreign hostages at the unity palace. Because president Biya has received more than one ex foreign hostage at the Unity Palace, including the Catholic Priest and the Mounier family, many were of the opinion that the MAMA led ex hostages would also be received by Head of State.
The now former hostages were kidnapped and tortured for 15 months, they revealed that they were blindfolded for ten months, chained every day, their destination changed 12 times and were given just one litre of water for two persons per day. It has not been disclosed if the Cameroon government paid ransom o secure their release.
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