Repressive Cameroon remains unchallenged
NOVANEWS
Aisha Bahadur
The crisis in Cameroon continues to fester without much international concern about serious human rights violations. With his close ties to France and his support for the American-led war against Boko Haram terrorism in the north of the country, President Paul Biya may ignore local pressure. But the conflict between the French-speaking and English-speaking parts of Cameroon will not simply vanish.
At a Higher Judicial Council meeting in Cameroon chaired by President Paul Biya on 7 June, it was expected that at the top of the agenda would be the Anglophone Problem and the arrest of 28 civil society leaders from Anglophone Cameroon. Amongst those detained now for five months is a sitting Chief Judge at the Cameroonian Supreme Court, Ayah Paul Abine, ...