London: March 13, 2017; The CommonWealth Day Celebrations lost all the flair and pomp planned for it because of West Cameroon activists who stormed Westminster Abbey where the Queen and all representatives of CommonWealth Countries were present. Carrying a coffin draped with the Cameroon flag, they chanted demands asking for the liberation of West Cameroon.…
HOMECOMING OR HOMEGOING? By Fr. Gerald Jumbam Dear Mr. Boh Herbert, I write you because you know it, you have it and you get it. I write you because you talk sense and you, like many, have suffered as a result of you stance. I write you because you have dared the structures of evil…
Despite being a very peaceful protest, the large police presence was an indication that the demonstrators’ reaction to the French hesitation to collect their petition, had sent a clear message to the Met Police. The message was simple: this was not a joke!!!
On Friday, 20 January 2017, the West Cameroon Movement for Change, UK, led protesters to the French Embassy where they handed a petition. The petition had five requests for the French Ambassador, Sylvie Bermann, to pass on to her country. It asks France to: Stop its support for the dictatorial regime in Cameroon Condemn the rape,…
An Open Letter to Akwanga Ebenezer by Walter ONEKON ANGWERE EDITOR’S NOTE: As anyone familiar with the current struggle raging in Cameroon will testify, it is not a new problem. It is one that has been raging for many decades. It is a struggle that has had its fair share of martyrs and traitors. However,…
Everything seemed to be set for the Cameroon worldwide peace walk that had been scheduled on the 2nd January 2017. Cameroon president Paul Biya’s speech on 31 December in which he insinuated that protesters were ‘extremists being manipulated’ did more to inflame the already precarious situation. The President’s speech was a further example of how…
On Friday 9 December, 2016, Cameroonians in the UK presented the following petition which was signed by all present to the Secretary General of the Commonwealth PETITION FOR THE SUSPENSION OF CAMEROON FROM THE COMMONWEALTH The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC Mindful of the fact that in 1995, with the…
The Cameroon High Commission London was in a state of disarray today as many Cameroonians from across the UK assembled there to protest against human rights abuses in the country. Protesters could be heard chanting ‘Safe English-Cameroon’ ‘Safe Southern-Cameroons’ or simply ‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH’. Some speakers asked the UK government to suspend diplomatic relations with…
Dear Mr. President! For the past few days, Cameroon has been trending on social media. Unfortunately, it is not because we achieved something wonderful. Rather it is because your request for US assistance in fighting Boko Haram was granted. Hence, Cameroon was trending alongside a word like Boko Haram. Imagine that! I do not know…
