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  Mayor Dighambong Anthony Mvo 's home was swept away by flames on the night of October 16 , 2022 .  All that remains is ash at the home of the mayor of Wum , a town in Menchum Division of the Nor th-West   region  of the Republic of Cameroon . On the night of October 16 , the residence of Dighambong Anthony Mvo  went up in smoke as only few people were  present at the scene. The arson was carried out by unidentified gun men who are still on the run . Few months after the charring  of the mayor's  residence, the wife came visiting and was shocked by what she saw and mustered courage as she felt the pinch of being not only homeless but  being so in one's own community.  I came home to serve my community, but I am Homeless in my own community because of outright heartlessness, Human wickedness and cruelty. YES, I NOW KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HOMELESS IN YOUR OWN LAND! YES, I HAVE TASTED OF THIS GROSS INHUMANITY! AND DRUNK FROM THE CUP OF B...

Nji Ignatius is Bamenda-based journalist working for one of Cameroon's leading weeklies, Eden newspaper. He just returned from Douala after a business trip. He complains they arrived the Matazem border at 4a.m and only succeeded in filing past the two security cordons after a four hours delay. Hyperbolically , that's almost the amount of time Africans trying to cross the Mexican border into the United States, take.   Since the outbreak of the conflict in the two English Speaking Regions, Defense Ministry Officials erected stiff security belts on both sides of the Matazem crossing. Vehicles arriving from East Cameroon are obliged to wait until 6.30a.m before security officials who are usually not in a hurry, begin screening from one passenger to the other and from one bus to another.   Come to think of the fact that of the six accredited travel agencies plying the Bamenda- Yaoundé , Bamenda-Douala, and Bamenda-Buea/Limbe roads, each of them loads at least three full-to-the-brim...

  Image an elephant walked into the room. It's definitely something you would notice. It's also something people would describe in many different ways. Some might see it as a monster or a threat, while others (like The Colbert Factor) might think it's the greatest thing ever. It would ultimately mean something different to everyone, and that would influence the way each person understood it. The visit of the French President was the elephant walking into the Cameroon room.   Emmanuel Macron and Paul Biya in Yaoundé. July 25-27 2022 Last week's visit by recently re-elected French President, Emmanuel Macron, was too substantial to ignore. To most ordinary Cameroonians, his remarks after the close to two hours high-level talks with long-serving President Paul Biya, were great. To others, (especially those in government), they were a threat to what government had given a pat on its back for a fast-track of the decentralization process with a Special Status for the North Wes...

The population of Wum municipality in Menchum Division, gathered at the Zongokwo Village hall, and called on the Head of State, President Paul Biya, to look into their plight and tare the Wum-Bamenda road, a potion of the ring road. They also realized that Kidnapping for money is an evil that came to the Wum municipality, for whatever reasons, and has refused to go. The incidence reduced considerably in the last two years, but seems to have refused to go completely. The perpetrators of this crime appear to have resumed with increasing vengeance for no good reasons, where  eight persons have been kidnapped within the last two months with emphasis laid on traditional rulers and local council workers. First it was a teacher, then some workers, and just few days ago, the Fon of Waazoh, two council workers, then the Fon of Naikom and a Teacher of GTTC Wum, fell victims to the dare devils.  Without sounding alarmist, we in Wum, are in a desperate situation, and all hands must be on ...

Certainly, Ni John Fru Ndi sold the book: "Cry, the beloved country" , by Alan Paton when he ran his Ebibi bookshop at the Bamenda Central Business District in the 70s and 80s. The book that captures the extremes of human emotions and chronicles the themes of social, economic, cultural and political alienation as well as identity in the South African society, today, more than ever before, speaks to Fru Ndi and the leading opposition SDF party he abandoned the book industry and birthed.  Formed in 1990 to right the wrongs of social, economic, cultural and political alienation of Anglophones by the majority francophone body polity after the 1961 reunification arrangement, SDF since encounted teething challenges unsitting the entrenched autocratic Yaounde regime fronted by President Paul Biya. One of the regime's vocal supporters at the time, late Francis Nkwain had challenged Fru Ndi's claims to Cameroon's Presidency on grounds he was a 'common' bookseller. ...

Muteff may be a small, little known village kaleidoscope, but things that happen there have unimaginable global dimensions. Situated off the jaws of Abuh valley in Fundong Subdivision, Boyo Division of the North West Region of Cameroon, the community, as a quarter in Abuh in the 60s, have lived together under a 'gentleman's agreement' that each time goats are slaughtered during burial ceremonies in Muteff quarter, their heads are eaten by the quarterhead in Muteff, rather than being sent to the village head of Abuh.  The ' gentleman's agreement' had lasted until Ghamnkoh left Muteff as quarter head to become village head of mainland Abuh in the 70s. He then, and, unilaterilly reneged on the "gentleman's agreement', by ordering all goat heads from the 'nchong" traditional fraternity be sent directly to him, no longer to quarter heads. Muteff could not bear such unilateralliness and after failed attempts to reestablish the gentleman's agr...

Brutal murder of CPDM militant in Jakiri: Must civilians match on May 20? Images of the lifeless body of one Lukong Francis, identified as a militant of the ruling CPDM Party, who marched last May 20, 2022, in Jakiri, Bui Division, North West of Cameroon, had since gone viral on social media. It has widely been reported suspected separatist fighters who had embargoed such celebrations in the 'disputed territories' of the  North West and South West Regions, carried out the act.  The part about it that still hungers an explanation, is the fact that his killers didn't only end at eliminating him but went further to drag the lifeless body along roadsides to the glare of cameras. The Rome Statutes on the rules of war (and especially the need to protect civilians) forbids any further tormenting of dead bodies during conflict. Since the morphing of the current conflict from bare-hand protests to weaponized killings, Rev. Jini Edward, Senior Pastor of the Nkwen Baptist Church, Bame...

'As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods. They kill us for their sports.' Nothing can ever begin to explain the senseless killing of nine unarmed civilians on the night of June 1, 2022 in Missong, a village near Zhoa in Fungom Subdivision, Menchum Division of the North West Region, than the above declaration by Gloucester in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. A statement from the spokesman of Cameroon's Ministry of Defense, Col. Atonfack Cyril, attributes the macabre incident to gross misjudgment by some four elements of Cameroon's elite forces who, fearing their colleague might have fallen into wrong hands, launched a ferocious search and rescue party on that fateful day. The statement furthered that when the military came across some villagers who seemed uncooperative, (and fearing for their own lives), they disproportionately rained bullets on them. This resulted in nine deaths; four women, four men, and an 18- year old girl. A baby of 12 months old who was a...