Category: diaspora

Cameroons: Trial over Cameroon’s Anglophone protests exposes national divide – reuters

February 13, 2017 Excerpt: “Cameroon’s linguistic divide dates back to the end of World War One when the League of Nations split the former German colony of Kamerun into zones of French and British administration. Shortly after independence in 1960, voters from the smaller English zone opted to join Cameroon over neighboring Nigeria – a […]

BSC | AMB: UN expert calls on Cameroon to restore net services

Cameroonian Google coding champ Nji Collins Gbah was cut off by the disruption Excerpts: “A UN expert has called on Cameroon to restore net access to English-speaking parts of the country. Net services in the south-west and north-west regions of the nation were cut on 17 January. Cutting net services was an “appalling violation” of […]

BSC | AMB: Update on Military Tribunal Trial of “Anglophones” in Franco-Cameroun

February 13, 2017 Summary of the session today. The session started at 10.50 when the presiding judge came in and declared the session open. She asked if the state counsel had any special observations and he simply introduced the team with which he was working. Then Barrister Akere Muna gave his opening word, note that […]