The Cameroon Dispatch

(L-R) Cornelius Fontem Esua,Archbishop of Bamenda  and George Nkuo,Bishop of Kumbo ( President of BAPEC) *BAMENDA PROVINCIAL EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE [BAPEC]* THE SECRETARIAT ARCHBISHOP’S HOUSE P.O. BOX 82, BAMENDA NORTH WEST REGION C A M E R O O N BAPEC/PRES/2016/30 22 December 2016 *MEMORANDUM PRESENTED TO THE HEAD OF STATE, HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT PAUL BIYA, BY THE BISHOPS OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE OF BAMENDA ON THE CURRENT SITUATION OF UNREST IN THE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST REGIONS OF CAMEROON* Your Excellency, For almost one month now there has been a series of unrests and violence in some towns of the Northwest and Southwest Regions(1) of Cameroon occasioned by the strike of the Anglophone Lawyers and of the Teachers’ Trade Unions of the English Sub-system of Education. These have led to the loss of human life andto the destruction of property of some of our citizens. There have been flagrant abuses of human rights, as demonstrated by credi...

 Change is part of life. To try to go against change is to try to go against the very essence of the meaning of life. So when I read of high government officials and party apparatchiks, moving to Bamenda and Buea, I listen in to hear what the proposals are. Nothing, but a language that divides and the worn-out chant: ‘all is well’. If there are thousands and thousands of people marching in the streets, if you feel the need to mobilize and explain, then all cannot be well. If people are being shot, buildings burnt and massive arrests taking place and the rule of law starts becoming arbitrary then all cannot be well. Not with my soul, or the soul of any human being. In this country we are becoming confirmed experts at reinventing the wheel. Unfortunately this happens every time we are faced with a serious problem others have had to deal with before. It appears to me that the easier thing to do should be just to take a look at what others who have struggled through the same tribu...

Below is a list of some of the protesters who were arrested on the 6-12-2016 taken to GMI Bamenda, taken to the Central police on the same day. On the the 8-12-16, they were supposedly transferred to the Bamenda Central Prison by a PRECEPTORIAL ORDER  OF the SDO of Mezam. 1. Tatae Ncok 2.Roger Gadinga 3.Asangon Joseph 4. Penny Nickson Asobo 5. Che Roger Funwi 6. Mbah Louis 7. Bah Joel 8. Bruno Teneng 9.Valentine Biyenuah 10. Donsong Miafo Herman 11. Ngwa Denis 12.Tikom Charles 13.Niba Oliver 14.Nziki Solomon 15.Nkwenti Sama Emmanuel Penn 16. Mbi Louis 17.Akewo Casen 18.Kenneth Fobah 19. Acha Mbah Valary 20.Atawan Feojus 21.Yembeh Clinton 22.Mudoh Elvis Abong 23.Fongole Lesley 24.Menia Ferdinand 25.Winceslaus Azeh. All of them are between the ages of 18-30years some of them are sick especially Asangong Joseph who was shot on the right lap, no medical care. Some of the parents of these children don't know their whereabout. Please do give these names the highest publicity so that some...

The United Bank for Africa (UBA) has won Bank of The Year 2016 in   Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Senegal, Cameroon and Chad   at the annual Bankers Award in London. The Group Managing Director/CEO, UBA Plc, Mr Kennedy Uzoka dedicated the awards to customers, whose loyalty, support and patronage he says, has remained the fountain of the Group's growth and competitive edge in the African continent. The Pan African banking and financial services group, United Bank for Africa (UBA) provides services to more than 11 million customers in 19 countries in Africa and 3 global financial centers in New York, London and Paris. Its influence and reputation as one of Africa’s largest and most successful financial services group has continued to grow with the latest showing at the keenly contested global banking awards, where it clinched 5 country awards. Uzoka shared credit for the group’s success with its country CEOs, staff and other stakeholders of the 5 subsidiaries for the perfor...

Gino Sitson,  New York-based Franco-American Afro-Jazz singer and pianist  is the newest UNICEF goodwill ambassador. Gitson  who is of Cameroonian origin and a college teacher of music in the United States, is UNICEF’s new advocate for the rights and protection of street children in Cameroon. Before his official presentation in that capacity to press in Yaounde earlier this December, he had dedicated his latest album, “Body & Voice” to street children and taught music to a group of street children in the nation’s capital. He says training children to produce music is equal to training them to be happy and productive. “Music is an expression of self. It gives you the feeling that you are who you are and enables you to believe in yourself no matter the circumstances you find yourself in” he said, adding that “I taught the children the same way I teach in schools in the West, and it gives me satisfaction” Felicite Tchibindat,Country Representative of ...

Attijariwafa Bank and United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc sign  Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)  by Mr. Tony Elumelu, Group Chairman UBA and Mr. Mohamed El Kettani, Chairman and CEO of Attijariwafa Bank Group.   King Mohammed VI of Morocco and President Muhammadu Buhari have sig ned bilateral agreements, aimed at strengthening economic ties between Morocco and Nigeria. The agreements were signed on December 4  at the the Nigerian Presidential Villa in Abuja.  The agreements cover the areas of investment, training, youth skills-building, oil and mining, tourism,   infrastructure,  banking, finance, insurance and logistics and represent the desire on the part of both countries to deepen political and economic ties. During the event, Heirs Holdings and leading Moroccan bank, Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP), also signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on investing, co-financing, and exchange of information encoura...

Washington, 8 December 2016 - Riot police and paramilitary forces shot into crowds of protesters Thursday killing more than ten people in the town of Bamenda, the capital of the English-speaking North West Region of Cameroon and a stronghold of Cameroon’s main opposition political party, the Social Democratic Party (SDF). Many more people are believed to have been "disappeared". As the sun set Thursday, video posted on social media showed troops patrolling the main streets of Bamenda on foot or in the open backs of pickup trucks - firing aimlessly into the air and sometimes towards buildings. A dozen lorry loads of gendarmes numbering several hundreds of troops drove through the western town of Bafoussam just before darkness headed for Bamenda, according to online reports citing Canal+, a Bafoussam-based private broadcaster. One audio recording posted on the Cameroon Online WhatsApp eGroup claimed that the troops coming from Bafoussam are trainees, well known...