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Homelessness, disease, poverty, poor maintenance culture, corruption, the complete absence of an acceptable transport network is rocketing and millions languish in poorly equipped hospitals around the country. But this CPDM Government are oblivious to the human suffering this is causing. The government dither over rent controls in urban centres, do nothing to answer the urban questions and propose miniscule home-building no more accepted even in mother France. They allow sell-offs of land in Southern Cameroons territory when these could be used to alleviate the poverty crisis. They actually cut salaries, increased social insurance contribution and gave sweeteners to the local population by pretending to decentralize the National Social Insurance Fund.

There are currently so many concocted judicial proceedings which have generated clashes among senior dignitaries of the regime. Biya is a political disaster that has been around for the last 33 years. We can’t and won’t wait any longer for action. The new anti- terrorism law was enacted to stifle the right to protest-just so the rich CPDM families can get richer. The so called emergency plan is a bonanza for Mr. Biya and members of the CPDM Central Committee including those of the National Executive Committee of the SDF to increased their wealth. The new economic plan is built on very low salaries and diminished rights for the majority. To be sure, it is inherently unfair and offers no future.

Yet, the CPDM government and its SDF collaborators are defending this inequality by attacking those who resist it. Soldiers killed innocent students at the University of Buea protesting against dubious admission policy into the School of Medical Science. Now those who ordered the killings are running away from doctors made in Cameroon and are seeking treatment abroad. Consequently, the French now have the bill of health of all senior Cameroon government officials.

The recent reorganization of the CPDM Government by President Biya painted a picture of a system that is bound to fail. Many of the ministers are the same men who have ruined the country. One of the most incompetent Cameroonian citizens ever, Laurent Esso, Minister of State in charge of Justice in the new cabinet, was appointed Minister of Justice in 1996 and headed the justice department till 2000. He was successively Minister of Public Health in 2000; Minister Delegate in charge of Defense in 2001; Minister of State in charge of External Relations and Minister of State, Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic in 2006. In 2011 he returned as the head of the Ministry of Justice succeeding another recycled CPDM minister, Amadou Ali. So, his appointment on October 2nd, 2015 as Minister of Justice is simply an excellent backward trend.

Martin Belinga Eboutou, Director of the Civil Cabinet at the presidency of the republic is the cold schemer plotter of the regime. He was Director of State Protocol since 1989. He was later appointed Director of the Civil Cabinet from 1996 to 1997. He was sent as Cameroon Representative to the United Nations. In June 30, 2009, a presidential decree brought him back as head of the Directorate of the Civil Cabinet-a post he still holds even after the last cabinet shakeup.

Pierre Ismael Bidoum Mkpatt was a Cameroonian artist and a relation to the first lady Chantal Biya. Appointed Minister of Sports and Physical Education from 2000 to 2004, the October 2nd, 2015 presidential decree gave him back the same job he left in 2004. Philippe Mbarga Mboa was appointed Minister in charge of Missions at the Presidency on August 2002 to December 2004. In 2004, he was appointed Minister of Sports and Physical Education. In 2011, he was back again as Minister in charge of mission at the Presidency of the Republic.

Louis Paul Motaze, current Minister of Economic Planning had been in that ministerial department from 2007 to 2011, when he was appointed Secretary General at the Prime Minister’s Office. Martin Mbarga Nguele, the national police boss, had already been Delegated General for National Security from 1983 to 1984. He returned to the policing business in 2010. Amadou Ali has been everything but Head of State. No wonder, some cabinet ministers from the Far North were quick to tell Prime Minister Philemon Yang recently that they wanted to visit their own head of government in a hospital in France.

If we aim to build a movement for fundamental change where wealth is used to benefit the majority not the few in the CPDM Central Committee and House of Senate, Anglophones and Francophones should and must read from the same script. There should be a general demand for the closure of the Special Criminal Court. All the members of the special police unit carrying out spying operation on the Cameroonian Diaspora should stop doing so. The Cameroonian Diaspora should suspend indefinitely all economic activity with the country and clamour for regime change.

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Homelessness, disease, poverty, poor maintenance culture, corruption, the complete absence of an acceptable transport network is rocketing and millions languish in poorly equipped hospitals around the country. But this CPDM Government are oblivious to the human suffering this is causing. The government dither over rent controls in urban centres, do nothing to answer the urban questions and propose miniscule home-building no more accepted even in mother France. They allow sell-offs of land in Southern Cameroons territory when these could be used to alleviate the poverty crisis. They actually cut salaries, increased social insurance contribution and gave sweeteners to the local population by pretending to decentralize the National Social Insurance Fund.

There are currently so many concocted judicial proceedings which have generated clashes among senior dignitaries of the regime. Biya is a political disaster that has been around for the last 33 years. We can’t and won’t wait any longer for action. The new anti- terrorism law was enacted to stifle the right to protest-just so the rich CPDM families can get richer. The so called emergency plan is a bonanza for Mr. Biya and members of the CPDM Central Committee including those of the National Executive Committee of the SDF to increased their wealth. The new economic plan is built on very low salaries and diminished rights for the majority. To be sure, it is inherently unfair and offers no future.

Yet, the CPDM government and its SDF collaborators are defending this inequality by attacking those who resist it. Soldiers killed innocent students at the University of Buea protesting against dubious admission policy into the School of Medical Science. Now those who ordered the killings are running away from doctors made in Cameroon and are seeking treatment abroad. Consequently, the French now have the bill of health of all senior Cameroon government officials.

The recent reorganization of the CPDM Government by President Biya painted a picture of a system that is bound to fail. Many of the ministers are the same men who have ruined the country. One of the most incompetent Cameroonian citizens ever, Laurent Esso, Minister of State in charge of Justice in the new cabinet, was appointed Minister of Justice in 1996 and headed the justice department till 2000. He was successively Minister of Public Health in 2000; Minister Delegate in charge of Defense in 2001; Minister of State in charge of External Relations and Minister of State, Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic in 2006. In 2011 he returned as the head of the Ministry of Justice succeeding another recycled CPDM minister, Amadou Ali. So, his appointment on October 2nd, 2015 as Minister of Justice is simply an excellent backward trend.

Martin Belinga Eboutou, Director of the Civil Cabinet at the presidency of the republic is the cold schemer plotter of the regime. He was Director of State Protocol since 1989. He was later appointed Director of the Civil Cabinet from 1996 to 1997. He was sent as Cameroon Representative to the United Nations. In June 30, 2009, a presidential decree brought him back as head of the Directorate of the Civil Cabinet-a post he still holds even after the last cabinet shakeup.

Pierre Ismael Bidoum Mkpatt was a Cameroonian artist and a relation to the first lady Chantal Biya. Appointed Minister of Sports and Physical Education from 2000 to 2004, the October 2nd, 2015 presidential decree gave him back the same job he left in 2004. Philippe Mbarga Mboa was appointed Minister in charge of Missions at the Presidency on August 2002 to December 2004. In 2004, he was appointed Minister of Sports and Physical Education. In 2011, he was back again as Minister in charge of mission at the Presidency of the Republic.

Louis Paul Motaze, current Minister of Economic Planning had been in that ministerial department from 2007 to 2011, when he was appointed Secretary General at the Prime Minister’s Office. Martin Mbarga Nguele, the national police boss, had already been Delegated General for National Security from 1983 to 1984. He returned to the policing business in 2010. Amadou Ali has been everything but Head of State. No wonder, some cabinet ministers from the Far North were quick to tell Prime Minister Philemon Yang recently that they wanted to visit their own head of government in a hospital in France.

If we aim to build a movement for fundamental change where wealth is used to benefit the majority not the few in the CPDM Central Committee and House of Senate, Anglophones and Francophones should and must read from the same script. There should be a general demand for the closure of the Special Criminal Court. All the members of the special police unit carrying out spying operation on the Cameroonian Diaspora should stop doing so. The Cameroonian Diaspora should suspend indefinitely all economic activity with the country and clamour for regime change.

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03.Nov.2015

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Homelessness, disease, poverty, poor maintenance culture, corruption, the complete absence of an acceptable transport network is rocketing and millions languish in poorly equipped hospitals around the country. But this CPDM Government are oblivious to the human suffering this is causing. The government dither over rent controls in urban centres, do nothing to answer the urban questions and propose miniscule home-building no more accepted even in mother France. They allow sell-offs of land in Southern Cameroons territory when these could be used to alleviate the poverty crisis. They actually cut salaries, increased social insurance contribution and gave sweeteners to the local population by pretending to decentralize the National Social Insurance Fund.

There are currently so many concocted judicial proceedings which have generated clashes among senior dignitaries of the regime. Biya is a political disaster that has been around for the last 33 years. We can’t and won’t wait any longer for action. The new anti- terrorism law was enacted to stifle the right to protest-just so the rich CPDM families can get richer. The so called emergency plan is a bonanza for Mr. Biya and members of the CPDM Central Committee including those of the National Executive Committee of the SDF to increased their wealth. The new economic plan is built on very low salaries and diminished rights for the majority. To be sure, it is inherently unfair and offers no future.

Yet, the CPDM government and its SDF collaborators are defending this inequality by attacking those who resist it. Soldiers killed innocent students at the University of Buea protesting against dubious admission policy into the School of Medical Science. Now those who ordered the killings are running away from doctors made in Cameroon and are seeking treatment abroad. Consequently, the French now have the bill of health of all senior Cameroon government officials.

The recent reorganization of the CPDM Government by President Biya painted a picture of a system that is bound to fail. Many of the ministers are the same men who have ruined the country. One of the most incompetent Cameroonian citizens ever, Laurent Esso, Minister of State in charge of Justice in the new cabinet, was appointed Minister of Justice in 1996 and headed the justice department till 2000. He was successively Minister of Public Health in 2000; Minister Delegate in charge of Defense in 2001; Minister of State in charge of External Relations and Minister of State, Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic in 2006. In 2011 he returned as the head of the Ministry of Justice succeeding another recycled CPDM minister, Amadou Ali. So, his appointment on October 2nd, 2015 as Minister of Justice is simply an excellent backward trend.

Martin Belinga Eboutou, Director of the Civil Cabinet at the presidency of the republic is the cold schemer plotter of the regime. He was Director of State Protocol since 1989. He was later appointed Director of the Civil Cabinet from 1996 to 1997. He was sent as Cameroon Representative to the United Nations. In June 30, 2009, a presidential decree brought him back as head of the Directorate of the Civil Cabinet-a post he still holds even after the last cabinet shakeup.

Pierre Ismael Bidoum Mkpatt was a Cameroonian artist and a relation to the first lady Chantal Biya. Appointed Minister of Sports and Physical Education from 2000 to 2004, the October 2nd, 2015 presidential decree gave him back the same job he left in 2004. Philippe Mbarga Mboa was appointed Minister in charge of Missions at the Presidency on August 2002 to December 2004. In 2004, he was appointed Minister of Sports and Physical Education. In 2011, he was back again as Minister in charge of mission at the Presidency of the Republic.

Louis Paul Motaze, current Minister of Economic Planning had been in that ministerial department from 2007 to 2011, when he was appointed Secretary General at the Prime Minister’s Office. Martin Mbarga Nguele, the national police boss, had already been Delegated General for National Security from 1983 to 1984. He returned to the policing business in 2010. Amadou Ali has been everything but Head of State. No wonder, some cabinet ministers from the Far North were quick to tell Prime Minister Philemon Yang recently that they wanted to visit their own head of government in a hospital in France.

If we aim to build a movement for fundamental change where wealth is used to benefit the majority not the few in the CPDM Central Committee and House of Senate, Anglophones and Francophones should and must read from the same script. There should be a general demand for the closure of the Special Criminal Court. All the members of the special police unit carrying out spying operation on the Cameroonian Diaspora should stop doing so. The Cameroonian Diaspora should suspend indefinitely all economic activity with the country and clamour for regime change.

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Homelessness, disease, poverty, poor maintenance culture, corruption, the complete absence of an acceptable transport network is rocketing and millions languish in poorly equipped hospitals around the country. But this CPDM Government are oblivious to the human suffering this is causing. The government dither over rent controls in urban centres, do nothing to answer the urban questions and propose miniscule home-building no more accepted even in mother France. They allow sell-offs of land in Southern Cameroons territory when these could be used to alleviate the poverty crisis. They actually cut salaries, increased social insurance contribution and gave sweeteners to the local population by pretending to decentralize the National Social Insurance Fund.

There are currently so many concocted judicial proceedings which have generated clashes among senior dignitaries of the regime. Biya is a political disaster that has been around for the last 33 years. We can’t and won’t wait any longer for action. The new anti- terrorism law was enacted to stifle the right to protest-just so the rich CPDM families can get richer. The so called emergency plan is a bonanza for Mr. Biya and members of the CPDM Central Committee including those of the National Executive Committee of the SDF to increased their wealth. The new economic plan is built on very low salaries and diminished rights for the majority. To be sure, it is inherently unfair and offers no future.

Yet, the CPDM government and its SDF collaborators are defending this inequality by attacking those who resist it. Soldiers killed innocent students at the University of Buea protesting against dubious admission policy into the School of Medical Science. Now those who ordered the killings are running away from doctors made in Cameroon and are seeking treatment abroad. Consequently, the French now have the bill of health of all senior Cameroon government officials.

The recent reorganization of the CPDM Government by President Biya painted a picture of a system that is bound to fail. Many of the ministers are the same men who have ruined the country. One of the most incompetent Cameroonian citizens ever, Laurent Esso, Minister of State in charge of Justice in the new cabinet, was appointed Minister of Justice in 1996 and headed the justice department till 2000. He was successively Minister of Public Health in 2000; Minister Delegate in charge of Defense in 2001; Minister of State in charge of External Relations and Minister of State, Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic in 2006. In 2011 he returned as the head of the Ministry of Justice succeeding another recycled CPDM minister, Amadou Ali. So, his appointment on October 2nd, 2015 as Minister of Justice is simply an excellent backward trend.

Martin Belinga Eboutou, Director of the Civil Cabinet at the presidency of the republic is the cold schemer plotter of the regime. He was Director of State Protocol since 1989. He was later appointed Director of the Civil Cabinet from 1996 to 1997. He was sent as Cameroon Representative to the United Nations. In June 30, 2009, a presidential decree brought him back as head of the Directorate of the Civil Cabinet-a post he still holds even after the last cabinet shakeup.

Pierre Ismael Bidoum Mkpatt was a Cameroonian artist and a relation to the first lady Chantal Biya. Appointed Minister of Sports and Physical Education from 2000 to 2004, the October 2nd, 2015 presidential decree gave him back the same job he left in 2004. Philippe Mbarga Mboa was appointed Minister in charge of Missions at the Presidency on August 2002 to December 2004. In 2004, he was appointed Minister of Sports and Physical Education. In 2011, he was back again as Minister in charge of mission at the Presidency of the Republic.

Louis Paul Motaze, current Minister of Economic Planning had been in that ministerial department from 2007 to 2011, when he was appointed Secretary General at the Prime Minister’s Office. Martin Mbarga Nguele, the national police boss, had already been Delegated General for National Security from 1983 to 1984. He returned to the policing business in 2010. Amadou Ali has been everything but Head of State. No wonder, some cabinet ministers from the Far North were quick to tell Prime Minister Philemon Yang recently that they wanted to visit their own head of government in a hospital in France.

If we aim to build a movement for fundamental change where wealth is used to benefit the majority not the few in the CPDM Central Committee and House of Senate, Anglophones and Francophones should and must read from the same script. There should be a general demand for the closure of the Special Criminal Court. All the members of the special police unit carrying out spying operation on the Cameroonian Diaspora should stop doing so. The Cameroonian Diaspora should suspend indefinitely all economic activity with the country and clamour for regime change.

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Legitimate satisfaction characterised the various speakers who took the floor yesterday 29 October 2015 to highlight the way forward for both India and Africa as they design a new road map for mutual cooperation in the interest of their peoples. The inaugural ceremony which saw the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his co-chair of the event President Robert Mugabe who is the current President of the African Union as well as Mrs Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission and the Minister of External Affairs of India, Shusma Swaraj all underscored the shared goals between Africa and India. Opening remarks by the Indian Minister of External Affairs were just to usher in the main speakers for the morning. The Summit Chairperson, Prime Minister, made a hair-raising declaration to send home his points. Having overcome the challenges of colonialism, neo-colonial and apartheid, Africa and India, he said could no longer afford to remain behind. He recalled the adage that, “if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go with others.” Saying India and Africa must go far since they had much in common. 

 He welcome the brilliant colours of Africa and India blending together grate names like Gandhi, Mandela etc. a vibrant mosaic of languages, religious and cultural ties now linked by the Indian Ocean, ties of kingship commerce united through centuries saying their presence of African leaders in India symbolised one third of humanity under one roof, in the same rhythm A people who have cough for their liberty and dignity, spoken in one voice in the world and formed a partnership of prosperity, He insisted that their youth constituted another precious element that united them and African like India now coming together to take responsibility for their development should be an unmistaken sign.

PM Modi visited the multitude of exhibitions at the Indira Gandhi Sport Complex that exalted creative talents endowed in Africa and India. The same messages were highlighted by President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and Mrs Zuma as well as the 39 Heads of State, Prime Ministers and Vice Presidents that led delegations to New Delhi for the Summit. The leaders lauded the role of Prime Minister Modi in boasting cooperation ties with Africa and the various scholarships, and capacity building offers that India is making to Africa. Some appreciated the specific development and investment opportunities that their countries are currently undertaking with India. A huge highway for mutual advances is therefore being opened between Africa and India with the youth being placed at the centre following chances for education, technological improvements and other refresher courses that can help them leverage for a better future.

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31.Oct.2015

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Legitimate satisfaction characterised the various speakers who took the floor yesterday 29 October 2015 to highlight the way forward for both India and Africa as they design a new road map for mutual cooperation in the interest of their peoples. The inaugural ceremony which saw the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his co-chair of the event President Robert Mugabe who is the current President of the African Union as well as Mrs Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission and the Minister of External Affairs of India, Shusma Swaraj all underscored the shared goals between Africa and India. Opening remarks by the Indian Minister of External Affairs were just to usher in the main speakers for the morning. The Summit Chairperson, Prime Minister, made a hair-raising declaration to send home his points. Having overcome the challenges of colonialism, neo-colonial and apartheid, Africa and India, he said could no longer afford to remain behind. He recalled the adage that, “if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go with others.” Saying India and Africa must go far since they had much in common. 

 He welcome the brilliant colours of Africa and India blending together grate names like Gandhi, Mandela etc. a vibrant mosaic of languages, religious and cultural ties now linked by the Indian Ocean, ties of kingship commerce united through centuries saying their presence of African leaders in India symbolised one third of humanity under one roof, in the same rhythm A people who have cough for their liberty and dignity, spoken in one voice in the world and formed a partnership of prosperity, He insisted that their youth constituted another precious element that united them and African like India now coming together to take responsibility for their development should be an unmistaken sign.

PM Modi visited the multitude of exhibitions at the Indira Gandhi Sport Complex that exalted creative talents endowed in Africa and India. The same messages were highlighted by President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and Mrs Zuma as well as the 39 Heads of State, Prime Ministers and Vice Presidents that led delegations to New Delhi for the Summit. The leaders lauded the role of Prime Minister Modi in boasting cooperation ties with Africa and the various scholarships, and capacity building offers that India is making to Africa. Some appreciated the specific development and investment opportunities that their countries are currently undertaking with India. A huge highway for mutual advances is therefore being opened between Africa and India with the youth being placed at the centre following chances for education, technological improvements and other refresher courses that can help them leverage for a better future.

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31.Oct.2015

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