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Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has called for dialogue as the best solution to end the political crisis in Southern Cameroon, which prompted an influx of refugees into Nigeria. Mbasogo made the remarks in Abuja during a media briefing after a closed door meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

He noted that every country had its own peculiar crisis, but that they all need to seek solutions for them. “Cameroon is a big nation whose crisis requires the concern of all forces. There is no nation without its own crisis,” Mbasogo said. “What is required is to seek solution through dialogue and use it to find a common axis. Those seeking refuge in other lands need to sit down together and find solution through dialogue.

It is only through that, they can find solution to the crisis,” he added. The ongoing crisis in Cameroon’s Anglophone region has forced thousands to flee the country to neighbouring states to seek refuge. Many of the residents there are demanding autonomy from Cameroon, saying subsequent leaderships there have always marginalized the region. Mbasogo also commended Buhari’s efforts in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency, saying he had done a good job so far.

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24.Jan.2018

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Military authorities in Gambia arrested two of ex-strongman Yahya Jammeh’s generals after they returned unexpectedly from exile over the weekend, the army said in a statement on Monday.

Gambia’s current President Adama Barrow was sworn in a year ago as a West African regional intervention force closed in on the capital Banjul forcing Jammeh, who had refused to accept his defeat in elections, to flee to Equatorial Guinea.  

Umpa Mendy, Jammeh’s principal protection officer, and the former head of the State Guards Battalion Ansumana Tamba had both accompanied the former leader into exile. But the army statement said they flew back into Gambia on Sunday.

“They were arrested at their respective homes ... and are currently detained at the Yundum Military Barracks, where they are helping the military police with their investigations,” the statement said.

It did not say why the two men returned to Gambia or on what charges they had been arrested.

Barrow is still seeking to assert control following the end of 22 years of Jammeh’s authoritarian rule under which the military served as a key pillar of a regime notorious for jailing and torturing political opponents.

The new government has replaced or dismissed a number of senior military officers, some of them suspected of being members of a group called the Jungulars, which many Gambians say carried out killings on behalf of the government.

However, the army still contains many former supporters of Jammeh. Barrow’s allies have repeatedly warned of the possibility that exiled officers were working to undermine the new government from abroad.

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23.Jan.2018

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Inside Nigerian territory and holding a very charged press conference deep inside Abuja could have been very daring and courageous of him.

The press conference was chaired by Chris Anu and flanked by the cream of lawyers handling the case. 

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22.Jan.2018

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Liberia is ready for kickoff, take off if you like. The West African nation today, January 22, swears in one history maker as the other bows out.

George Manneh Weah will become its president – the first African footballer to achieve that feat while Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Africa’s first democratically female president will leave office after over a decade in charge. 

Weah won presidential elections last year to emerge the successor to Sirleaf beating then vice president Joseph Boakai twice in a space of three months.

In the first round of voting in October 2017, Weah came top but failed to garner the necessary votes. He went into a runoff with Boakai in December and emerged winner with over 60% of votes cast. This will be Liberia’s first democratic handover of executive power in decades.

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22.Jan.2018

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According to the Ministry of Public Works, the elected Mayor of the localities shall be responsible for planning, programming and execution of the road construction projects. This is done to minimize the risk of having failed projects as well as reducing the cost of follow up. The communal road project for the year 2018 have been stopped. 

The Mayors shall be the project supervisors as indicated by the minister of Public works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, the Mayors shall subsequently be responsible for the conception, programming, supervision and execution of the said projects.

Those projects to be executed shall be done with the technical assistance of Council engineers, who are charged with their construction and maintenance of such roads.

In other words it's the Mayors who shall give instructions as per priority of the project. They therefore shall need a project roadmap for their respective Council areas and shall take responsibility for all the decisions that they shall take.

Engineers from the ministry of Public Works shall give succour to the Mayors wherever there shall be technical challenges on the technical domain. These engineers shall be at the service of Mayors so as to help them in the designing of the structural plan if the project. Whenever a Mayor desires or wishes to maintain a trench of road, the chief of service for Technical maintenance or the Divisional Delegate for Public Works shall intervene to arrest the degradation as well as say what should be done.

These workers are at the disposal of the Mayor. Contract supervisor is charged with having a project book as requested by the Minister of Public Works. The transfer of competence to councils that was announced since 2012. The competence of Mayors is limited to secondary and feeder roads. The construction and maintenance of mayor roads is the responsibility of the Minister of Public Works.

In the quarters,the issue of road maintenance is in the hands of the Mayor. These are the fruits of the request of the population. Once more the needs of expressed by the people,the Mayor should solicit the assistance of the Divisional Delegate for Public Works, who shall carry out the studies on the field. After these field studies, he shall transmit to the hierarchy.

At the end of the procedure, the minister of Public works might release funds for each Council worth twenty seven million. 

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19.Jan.2018

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On Friday the 19th the French newspapers or tabloids had the following ratings as per candidate. Paul Biya: This diaper wearing octogenarian who has never won any freely and fairly organized elections in Cameroon is standing unopposed. This is the opinion of Patrice Balme whose work station is Poli since 1999.

That is his own perception of the elections. Akere Muna: Barrister Akere Muna is a black horse recruited by France to charm the people of Southern Cameroon's. France desires completing through Akere Muna, what they couldn't complete through his father, Solomon Tandeng Muna. 

For his open support for French Francophonization drive, he has recruited a French born animator by name François Meynent. François Meynent runs an organization tagged as " En marche" that gave Emmanuel Macron, the victory during the last French Presidential elections in France While waiting for the candidates of other political parties to be announced, Paul Biya seeking to replace Paul Biya and Barrister Akere Muna, have thrown their depositions to foreign campaign cabinets, whose cost is expensive and at a golden price.

This is done at the expense of home horned expertise, where life isn't enjoyable anymore. Visibly, Paul Biya, the head of state since 1982, similarly has challenges to prolong the French masquerade, the Francafrique that is in the genes. How to understand why the choice of Akere Muna searching for Muna?

He who says that it's going to be a another kind of government, should try to open their eyes at the Macron Emmanuel campaign team, in case of the protracted contestation of election results that usually characterize elections in Cameroon. 

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19.Jan.2018

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