Category: General Information

UNDERSTANDING CAMEROON’S ANGLOPHONE PROTESTS – Newsweek

BY CONOR GAFFEY February 13, 2017 Excerpt: “Why did the protests begin? Lawyers in Bamenda, the capital of Northwest region, took to the streets in November 2016 to protest against the alleged imposition of French courts in the Anglophone region. Teachers also called sit-in protests in Northwest and Southwest regions. Cameroon has two parallel schooling […]

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 […]