Free Cameroon Now

The Women’s African Cup of Nations holding for its first time in Cameroon  this year 2016 is seen to be another peculiar sporting event which will bring together masses from a variety of countries within and out of the continent to  partake or witness the grand sporting  jamboree. It is no doubt that the Cameroon government needs to make provision for logistics and infrastructures that will permit teams and their officials feel the comfort of hotels in Cameroon. Talking about the case of the South west region as one of the regions to be hosting some matches, and a more focus on Limbe where the stadium is, it is no doubt that too much work still needs to be done to expect a successful tournament.      However, the government of Cameroon has been so far, doing its best to make up though there is need to speed up because as far as preparations are concern the government may regret feeding their fowl on the market day if things are not done a little mu...

Shared from GreenPeace Africa:  Click here to see the original article on GreanPeace's website. YAOUNDE, Cameroon, May 26, 2016/APO (African Press Organization)/ -- A Greenpeace Africa (Greenpeace.org)  investigation into illegal logging operations in Cameroon has uncovered a trail of stolen timber leading to Cameroon’s main log exporter Compagnie de Commerce et de Transport (CCT), and has reportedly prompted a government audit into the activities of CCT and its suppliers. That audit should include the supplier La Socamba, subject of a Greenpeace briefing released today. The evidence presented in the briefing, La Socamba: How Cameroon’s Stolen Wood Reaches International Markets, demonstrates how CCT, which supplies timber companies worldwide, including in China and Europe, sources timber from La Socamba, a company engaged in illegal and destructive practices,  including logging several kilometers outside their legal logging title. This new case complements evidence alr...

Are you one of those inspired to shout "Je suis le Cameroon" out of anger at the big deal made by the international media in response to the Charlie Hebdo killings by radical jihadhists? Many wonder why the Charlie Hebdo killings are such a big deal since Boko Haram has been killing Nigerians and some Cameroonians for no better reason than extremism, and some of these people have created their own alternatives of the "Je suis Charlie" tag. Some talk of "I am Nigeria" and I dare say you too, if you are from Cameroon, might want to think, "I am Cameroon" or "Je suis le Cameroun" depending on your side of the Mungo. I agree with you but only condemn Boko Haram because of indiscriminate killing which is never any solution to a problem. In fact, I cannot add my voice to those who want to use it as an excuse to sweep Cameroon's problems under the carpet. We still have problems, Boko Haram or not, it is even a minor issue that is bein...

Biya deigns to receive Djotodia envoy after chaos on CAR border By Tengwan Ambe Frederick in Yaounde The president of the republic, Paul Biya, has at last stooped low enough to receive an envoy from the Central African president, Michel Djotodia, last Monday July 29, 2013. Biya’s guest, Arnaud Djoubaye Abazene, is his country’s minister of transport and civil aviation and the first guest from his country to be received publicly by Biya, since the new strongman of the CAR Michel Djotodia seized power in early this year,  Minister Djoubaye’s visit is significant in that it comes against a backdrop of snobbism which the Cameroon president has always shown Djotodia, who was conspicuously absent from the maritime security summit which gathered CEMAC heads of state among others in Yaounde last June.  But in a move reminiscent of French president, Francois Hollande, sending his foreign relation’s minister to Yaounde to help negotiate the release of the French subjects kidnapped ...