OPINION

On the 2nd of January 2002, I was pregnant for my first child Pearl, and was going down the stairs of my office, when I fell on my tummy and started bleeding.

Americans are heading to the polls to elect members to the US Congress and governors on the same day that Cameroonians will see their incumbent President Pual Biya sworn in for the seventh time. While these events may seem remotely connected, the outcomes of the mid-term elections in the US will likely affect how Biya governs Cameroon in the next two years.

This denial to recognize his value, his personality, Monsieur Le President, should partly explains why Biya is posting messages of congratulations from foreign leaders. These messages are usually posted by the president or officials sending them, rather than the president receiving them. But in the case of Cameroon, Biya needs them to tell Cameroonians, someone somewhere recognise my existence, values me, my personality as “Monsieur Le President du Cameroun”.

China’s growing engagement with African countries got a publicity boost on 3-4 September with the latest Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).

The re-election this week of Cameroon’s President Paul Biya — in power since 1982 — could be bad news, not just for Cameroon and the region, but for the United States.

The constitutional court was created to remove post-election disputes in Cameroon from the streets to Palaise de Congress where Biya and his military regime would effectively manage any protest, and where the opposition, would surrender to the same system that gave it a particular sense-of-itself.

From the Archived: Cameroonians are bracing for the results of October 07 Presidential election, in a climate wreaked with instability and uncertainty. Even as we await the unlikely “possible” return to stability in the country after the presidential elections, we should also ask what other possible outcomes we can expect in light of the current social, economic and political developments in the country.

As Cameroonians brace for the results of the October 7 polls, questions and criticisms are flooding the air over who is legally permitted to announce elections results, with government, ELECAM, and CPDM officials insisting the Constitutional Council is the only organ legally permitted to announce election results, as such who ever, besides the Council, does same is breaking the law.

Cameroonians head to the polls Sunday to reelect Paul Biya as president — a foregone conclusion despite the country’s acute crisis.

China’s relationship with Zambia, has come under “new” and heavy criticisms since 03 September this year, after a report by Africa Confidential that the Zambian government plans to sell strategic state-owned Zambian corporations to Chinese companies because Zambia is unable repay its debts to China.

Paul Biya is not just the President of Cameroon, but one of the oldest political gurus of his generation in the entire world.

By claiming that France denounces unilateral action and the strong arm twisting the weak, Macron revealed his raw hypocritical nature, which by the way you can only get from the French or British.