Clans are jostling as the ministerial reshuffle announced by President Paul Biya approaches. Their appointments to this strategic position could mark a turning point in the administration. While attention is mainly focused on current ministers, sources close to the Etoudi Palace mention the departure of the current Secretary General of the Presidency, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh….
Cameroon: Managing a Stolen Victory with Biya’s Failing Health: Who Is Actually in Command? It is a constitutional fiction that allows the Biya regime to continue. Legally, no other authority is empowered to appoint or dismiss ministers. Any cabinet reshuffle would be made in the name of Paul Biya. The decrees would be signed “The…
Cameroon: The Confiscation of Power Cannot Continue Chantal Biya and Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh are playing a dangerous game, one game too many. What is unfolding today is not merely the exhaustion of a long-standing regime, but the systematic seizure of the Cameroonian state by a clan that now governs without the people, against the people,…
2026 must be Cameroon’s year of moral rearmament, Batonnier Akere Muna In his New Year Speech, Bâtonnier Akere Muna, an unbending anti-corruption crusader and an unsuccessful candidate at the flawed October 2025 Presidential election, lamented: “For too long, we have witnessed a slow erosion of integrity in public life. We have slowly put in place a…
Cameroon’s impasse is not only a crisis. Cameroon at a Crossroads: Learning from the Impasse to Imagine a Shared Future Yaoundé, December 27, 2025. Cameroon today stands at a critical crossroads. The country is not only facing a political or security challenge, but a deeper question about how it understands itself, its history, and its…
Citizen Accountability Statement on Governance Failures in Cameroon This document outlines serious concerns regarding governance, public finance management and institutional integrity in Cameroon, under the long-standing administration of the ruling party. 1. Public Finance Transparency Significant discrepancies between announced national budget figures and reported execution levels raise concerns regarding compliance with international standards on budget…
An Open Letter to His Excellency President Paul Biya A Call for Justice and Sustainable Peace through the Resolution of the Anglophone Question By Professor Willibroad Dze-Ngwa Your Excellency, Permit me, first of all, to congratulate you as President of the Republic of Cameroon following the October 12, 2025 Presidential Election. The people of Cameroon…
CAMEROUN: ANCESTORS REFUSING TO LEAVE POWER Cameroon’s Power Bench: Still in the Hands of the ’80s and ’90s Club Cameroon’s top leadership reads like a roll call from another era. President Paul Biya, recently proclaimed the winner of the highly contested October 12 fraudulent election, is 92. Senate President Marcel Niat Njifenji clocks in at…
The Bishop of Douala worried about a new term for Paul Biya As an important presidential election is approaching in Cameroon, scheduled for October 2025, Archbishop Samuel Kleda of Douala has just published a sixteen-page pastoral letter in which he provides a damning assessment of the situation in his country. This situation has been exacerbated…
“The Philosophy of a Decaying System of Governance: Paul Biya’s Regime in Cameroon” I. Introduction: A Republic in Ruins The regime of Paul Biya, now over four decades in power, has become a case study in the philosophy of political decay. In Cameroon, governance is no longer a structure of public service or moral leadership—it…
