Njifenji who just started his second term as the Senate president has been one of the many reactionary elements who have ensured that no meaningful political change takes place in the country. Mr Njifenji has been accused by many of his collaborators in SONEL at the time of embezzling the funds of the state corporation which later faced serious management problems in the 1990s.Mr. Mefo was charged with "publishing and propagating information that infringes on the territorial integrity of the Republic of Cameroon," but was released and charges were dropped on 12 November after her arrest was condemned by both local and international media groups.In early 2017, videos and reports surfaced online showing a genocide was taking place in Southern Cameroon,Many allegations of indiscriminate killing, burning of villages, rape and humiliation of English-speaking citizens carried out by the BIR (Bataillon d'Intervention Rapide) have been made along with supporting video footage. Biya’s poor economic performance and his inability to steer a prosperous country to safer shores makes it hard for his candidacy to be sold to a population that is hankering for change. Since the early 1990s, he has faced his strongest opposition from the Although Biya made some efforts to open up the political environment, his regime still retains clear "Tyrants, the World's 20 Worst Living Dictators", by In 2016, Cameroonians in the nation's capital city of Yaoundé criticized Biya's reaction to the country's worst train crash in which 79 people died. Cameroon’s Senate president, Marcel Niat Njifenji, 84, has died in a French hospital a few days after he was evacuated due to respiratory problems. The UN says at least 23 civilians had died. The military had denied the killings for two months, blaming the deaths on fuel containers that had accidentally exploded during a firefight between security … Njifenji will be succeeded as Senate president by Chief Tabetando of the Southwest region who has been Mr. Njifenji’s vice for more than four years.He will surely not be missed by Cameroonians who have been calling for change at the highest level of the country’s political realm. Mr. Biya has ruled the country for 36 years and his incompetence has not only left the country with a tough economic situation, it has also caused the country to deal with a civil war that might take decades to address.Speaking to a member of the ruling party who elected anonymity, the The ruling party member said that it was good for some of the old members to start quitting the scene in order to create room for the new generation that could easily deal with some of the economic and political challenges facing the country.“I have just been advised of the Senate president’s death in a French hospital.

Thomas Deltombe, Manuel Domergue, Jacob Tatsita, Kamerun !, La Découverte, 2019John Mukum Mbaku, "Decolonization, Reunification and Federation in Cameroon", in "Cameroon's Supreme Court confirms Biya's re-election" David Wallechinsky, "Tyrants: the World's 20 Worst Living Dictators", Regan Press, 2006, pp. In January 2017, the government ordered a suspension of Internet services in the Northwest and Southwest provinces.By June 2017, protests in Cameroon's English-speaking provinces and cities led to police responding with force, with 4 protesters killed and over 100 arrested. International criticism has been levied at the United States for their lack of response to the growing Cameroonian crisis.In April 2017, a Cameroonian journalist working for On 7 November 2018, another Cameroonian journalist, Mimi Mefo, was arrested after reporting on social media that the Cameroonian military was behind the murder of an American missionary in the country, Charles Trumann, in October of that year. The French Ambassador to Cameroon told the media on June 5 that President Paul Biya had assured him that an investigation will be opened into the Wazizi’s death. Delphin Kahimbi, 50, a close associate of former president Joseph Kabila, had died of a heart attack on February 28 at home in Kinshasa, his wife and media reports said. The declaration was made the same day that the military spokesman, Colonel Serge Cyrille Atonfack, announced that Wazizi had died of severe sepsis on August 17, 2019 at the military hospital in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital. Opposition party leader Edna Njilin of the Cameroon People's Party spoke out against the enforced use of French in the classroom. The President of the Christian Men Fellowship (CMF) in the Molyko congregation of the PCC died Friday, July 17, 2020, in Buea following an illness. But rumours […] Mr. Njifenji who was reappointed by his friend, classmate, and president, Paul Biya, as senator and Senate president has, for some time now, been suffering from a respiratory problem.He was once the country’s deputy prime minister and a former managing director of the country’s only power utility corporation, SONEL, in the 1980s. A native of Cameroon's south, Biya rose rapidly as a bureaucrat under President Biya introduced political reforms within the context of a Biya's tenure as president began on 6 November 1982, making him the second-longest-ruling president in Africa (after Biya has maintained Cameroon's close relationship with France, one of Cameroon's former As an official in post-independence 1960s Cameroon, Biya rose to prominence under President In November 1983, Biya announced that the next presidential election would be held on 14 January 1984; it had been previously scheduled for 1985. DR Congo’s sacked former deputy chief of military intelligence, who was under European Union sanctions, died by hanging, President Felix Tshisekedi said Saturday. Cameroon's President Biya under pressure over human rights. He has also worked with members of the ruling party to ensure that the Southern Cameroons crisis that has resulted in the deaths of some 4,000 Cameroonians does not get addressed at the negotiating table.Mr. Cameroon's famous side that reached the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup in Italy will finally get the houses promised to them by President Paul Biya 30 years ago. Since the early 1990s, he has faced his strongest opposition from the Anglophone population of the former Southern Cameroons in the western part of the country.

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