Category: diaspora

BSC | AMB: Ndop Update – Gun shots by Franco-Camerounese troops

February 10, 2017 Franco-Camerounese govt troops indiscriminately shooting in a sleepy rural community called Ndop. Citizens are unarmed but earlier reports confirmed the torching of a school by citizens who were enforcing a “no school” policy to resist the oppression of Franco-Cameroun. It seems the Fon (Chief) of this area has fled. See earlier report […]

BSC | AMB: Ndop – Update on Fon of Bamunka. Has he fled?

February 10, 2017 Confirmed report I have spoke with a trusted and respected friend who confirms the key elements of what has been reported so far regarding events in Bamunka. He confirms that local Ndop youths went and burnt down a classroom in a francophone school where some students had been struggling to defy the […]

BSC | AMB: New York Times – A Bilingual Cameroon Teeters After English Speakers Protest Treatment

By FRANCOIS ESSOMBA and DIONNE SEARCEY FEB. 9, 2017 Excerpt: BAMENDA, Cameroon — Lawyers have long put up with laws that aren’t translated into their native English. They have endured French-speaking judges whose English is barely passable and who aren’t familiar with their judicial system. FULL STORY HERE