La maladie du pouvoir July 25, 2009

Béchir Ben Yahmed, le bien connu patron de l'hebdomadaire indépendant
basé à Paris Jeune Afrique a signé la semaine dernière dans sa rubrique
"Ce que je crois" un texte qui n'aura probablement laissé personne
indifférent dans la classe politique africaine au sud du Sahara. Il y
publie de larges extraits d'un ouvrage qui vient de paraître avec le
titre symbolique "Ces malades qui nous gouvernent", et qui est publié
par Davis Owen, médecin neuropsychologue et psychiatre de formation et
surtout homme politique britannique ayant occupé jusqu'aux fonctions de
ministre des Affaires étrangères.

Sarkozy-Biya ce jour

Le chef de l'Etat rencontrera son homologue français au moment où des
Camerounais de la diaspora manifesteront devant l'Hôtel Matignon.

C'était sans doute la grande curiosité des audiences accordées hier par
le chef de l'Etat Paul Biya au troisième jour de sa visite officielle
en France. Thomas Fabius, 27 ans et fils de son père, ancien
présentateur télé et présenté par le reporter de la Crtv comme
président d'un Cabinet conseil qui fait dans le domaine de la
communication. Si rien n'a été indiqué sur l'objet de cette rencontre,
l'on peut bien imaginer que le fils de l'ancien Premier ministre de
François Mitterrand viendra, probablement dans les mois qui viennent,
grossir les rangs des nombreux conseillers français chargés du suivi de
la communication du président de la République.

Tête-à-tête Biya-Sarkozy In Paris Today

The Elysee Palace will provide the setting today for a working lunch
offered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in honour of President Paul
Biya.

Day four of the official visit of President Paul Biya and
First Lady, Chantal Biya enters a high gear today in Paris. At 13h00,
President Paul Biya will be welcomed at the Elysee Palace by French
President Nicolas Sarkozy. Shortly after a tête-à-tête, the French
President will offer a working lunch in honour of the President Paul
Biya at the “Salon des Ambassadeurs” of the Elysee Palace. The working
lunch ends one hour thirty minutes later for President Paul Biya to
leave for his residence in Paris –Hotel le Meurice. At 18h30 President
Paul Biya and wife are expected to meet the Cameroonian community at
Pavillon Dauphine before heading for the Sainte Chapelle for a concert
dubbed “Les Folies Baroques”. The First Couple are expected to leave
the Sainte Chapelle for Hotel le Meurice by 21h45. Yesterday, President
Paul Biya and First Lady Chantal Biya had a busy schedule after the
three-hour trip from Bordeaux to Paris earlier in the day.

NGO accuses Biya’s son of plundering Cameroon’s rainforests

France – A non-governmental organization (NGO) that fights hunger and
corruption in the Third World has accused Franck Biya,the eldest son of
Cameroon's President Paul Biya, of destroying rainforests in the
country, owing huge sums in taxes and corruption.

Cameroon pressure group criticises France’s “support” for Biya

France – A Cameroonian pressure group has criticised France for its
"support" for President Paul Biya, warning that this could lead to
retaliation against French citizens in Cameroon as happened in Cote
d'Ivoire in 2004.

Tene Sop, Communication Secretary of the umbrella Cameroonain
Democratic and Patriotic Organisations (CODE), warned that the
situation is serious and "the least problem can turn into violence".

Biya meets Sarkozy amid rights protests

Cameroon's President Paul Biya (L) with French President Nicolas Sarkozy
(Photo: Reuters)

Cameroon's
President Paul Biya declared that there was "almost perfect agreement
on most subjects" at his meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy
on Friday. Biya has ended a four-day visit, which his opponents living
in France have dubbed "an invitation to a dictator".

"Mr Sarkozy hailed and exalted the stability of Cameroon," says Cameroon's Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary.

The French President "strongly advised that Mr Biya should play the leading role in the sub-region", after the death of Gabon's Omar Bongo, Tchiroma told RFI.

Albinos Worldwide To Converge In Yaounde

By Dickson Njoke,

Jean Jacques Ndoudoumou: ASMODISA International President
Albinos worldwide begin meeting in Yaounde from 1 to 9 August 2009 within the framework of their international conference that would be hosted for the first in Cameroon this year.
This was the main agendum on the menu of the Littoral Regional Chapter meeting of the World Association for the Defense and Solidarity of the Albinos known by its French acronym ASMODISA, in Douala last Sunday 19 July under the chairmanship of its international president, Jean Jacques Ndoudoumou.
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Alleged Escape Of Ambassa Zang: Y’de Airport Police Boss Reprimanded

                    

                                                                                                                                                         The commissioner in charge of security at the Yaounde Nsimalem
Airport, Adolf Edimo, is reported to have been called to question
following the alleged escape of Dieudonne Ambassa Zang using the
airport as his exit point.
Dieudonne Ambassa Zang, CPDM
parliamentarian for Mefou et Afamba and former Minister of Transport
who has been under the scanner of the ministry of justice and the
supreme state control for allegedly siphoning state funds, is said to
be on the run.