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Hon. Awudu Mbaya Cyprian By FC Junior The zonal conferences aimed at evaluating the level of voters’ registration in Nkambe Central kick-started last week with the SDF registering the influx of new militants. The evaluation process which started in Chup village took a u-turn when 168 CPDM militants of Ngaah-Bongom decamped to join the Social Democratic Front-SDF. In Binju-Nkambe, two frontline militants of the CPDM decided to dump the CPDM for the SDF. At Kup, there was seventh heaven and elation when 17 militants of the CPDM changed their minds and moved to the opposition. At Bih, Saah, Nwangri and Bi-Njeng, series of resignations were also registered. Musa Ibrahim, formerly CPDM militants told the crowd at Saah that he took the decision because “it is better to play in a team that you are sure to win” reasons why he made up his mind and decided to take along with him five of his friends to join the SDF. On his part Nformi Godwill of Ngaah who was among the 168 CPDM milita...

President Biya has issued a Presidential Decree announcing the first Senatorial elections in Cameroon for April 14, 2013, contrary to the call from the main opposition that Senatorial elections should be postpone. The Presidential Decree of February 27, 2013 took political pundits aback giving that the mandates of present municipal councilors had long expired. Yet, they make up the Electoral College.   However it is alleged Ni John Fru Ndi declared his candidature.   Besides, Ni John Fru Ndi is quoted to have said that “if Biya wants to destroy the country” he (Biya) should announce Senatorial Elections. Yet, as usual President Biya ignored Fru Ndi’s call to announce senatorial elections. Each candidate according to what we gathered is expected to pay a deposit of one million FCFA into the state treasury. Members of the Electoral College who will participate will also receive an allowance of 50.000 FCFA. Ni John Fru Ndi it should be recalled during his tour of Donga Man...

  A VIDEO has appeared on YouTube of seven kidnapped members of a French family with their abductors, who claim to be from Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and have demanded the release of prisoners. The video that France's foreign minister called "terribly shocking" represented the first images of the family to emerge since their abduction in Cameroon on February 19. The kidnappers, claiming to be from the Nigerian group, Boko Haram, say they carried out the abduction in part due to France's "war against Islam", apparently a reference to French military action in Mali. The more than three-minute video shows the family, including four children, held in an undisclosed location, surrounded by at least three of the abductors whose faces are hidden. It was not clear when the video was made. "If you want us to release these French citizens, quickly release all our women you are detaining," one of the abductors says in Arabic, addressing ...

Mr. President. Mr. President remembers that every one that you have relived from their positions and send to jail will be looking to repay if not you then your children. I hope that you are seeing what is happening around the world to leaders that have suppressed their people for so long. Mr. President please in God and Allah name go in peace for the love our beloved country so that we as Camero onian can continue to live in peace. To all our arm forces men and women please let the people have their say no force should be use against any Cameroonian because we are all going to be seeking for a better Cameroon. I have being silence for some time now because of health issues but l want to assured the Cameroon people that l am very good health. Our time is just around the corner in the coming days, a very big news is coming out which will change the cause of Cameroon for years to come. I want to assure our brothers and sisters in north and south who are suffering...

French medias reported today morning that the seven French nationals taken hostages by suspected members of Boko Haram on Tuesday in the extreme north of Cameroon were released in Nigeria. According to the report  the tourists were found in Nigeria along the border with Niger. This family held against her will, was found by the Nigerian authorities in the town of Dikwa in the north. The hostages are unharmed and are in the hands of the Nigerian authorities sources say and were found abandoned in a house in the town of Dikwa, a senior officer of the Cameroonian army is quoted to have said. There are three adults and four children from the same family. Since the French intervention in northern Mali, the kidnapping of European citizens have become common in the continent.  Yet Cameroon's Minister of Communication Issa Tchiroma has debunked information that the hostages have been released. Talking to French journalists today in Yaounde, Communication minister said the int...

The Vice Chairman of the Southern Cameroons National Council-SCNC Nfor Nfor has expressed fears that SCNC activists are targets for imminent arrests by forces of La Republique. Nfor Nfor made the statement after the arrest of Shey Alfred Sembe last Saturday, February 14, 2013. Shey Alfred Sembe was arrested along the Commercial Avenue in Bamenda after a successful rally of SCNC and SCAPO that was attended by some key personalities of Bamenda town in the North West Region. Sources say that after a successful rally at the Kumbo Squares a week ago, the SCNC scheduled the Bamenda rally which was to be followed by a Grand rally in Buea, the supposed Capital of the Southern Cameroons formerly the . It is reported that after the rally, Shey Alfred Sembe was making an announcement on a megaphone when some elements of the rapid intervention police, ESIR, swept on him, molested a journalist and whisked off Mr. Shey Alfred Sembe to the police station. Alfred Sembe was taken to the Legal Depart...