Postwatch (Cameroon)

Forty-three (43) Southern Cameroonians take UN Compound in Abuja Hostage

National Times update. Tuesday November 6, 2007.

Southern CamerooniansForty-three (43) Southern Cameroonians, some of them parents with children, today took the United Nations compound in Abuja, Nigeria hostage demanding that the UN look into the situation of Southern Cameroon. The Southern Cameroonians marched into the UN Compound early today and kept thge UN officials busy with their demands.

The Southern Cameroonians said that the United Nations illegally handed over their country to Frenbch Cameroun. They also complained about a wave of harassment and intimidation by the Nigerian police.

Those Who Live in Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones! Mola Njoh Litumbe

A.E.S SONEL’S Load Shedding: An Ant’s Eye View. By Valentine Tamen

When Cameroonians first heard that an American multi-national had bought the much-abused and moribund SONEL, even those of us who hated privatization heaved a sigh of relief. For once, an Anglo Saxon corporation would be competing with those countless French concerns, which had, with ostentatious arrogance, pillaged Cameroon in the name of running its parastatals.  Naive as we were, we took the Anglo Saxon “front” as an augury of many things positive and good.  I boasted to a friend that these were American Experts come to Sanitize SONEL.  My friend was to have the latter laugh, a year later, when he told me mockingly that those experts of mine had come along with nothing but acute electricity shortage for SONEL, so we should always expect shortage henceforth. I was already disillusioned with the epileptic functioning of the company’s supply of power so I had nothing to say in reply.

Could the Americans now be engaged in the savage capitalistic ploy of "minimum investment-maximum profit?" Read on...