The cost of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Cameroon is raising serious questions.

The cost of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Cameroon is raising serious questions. Initially estimated at one billion CFA francs, the budget reportedly surged to nearly 50 billion, according to Jeune Afrique. The increase is linked to multiple emergency public contracts, many awarded without transparency. One example is a 590 million CFA franc road project…

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Crise humanitaire : l’Union européenne au secours des Camerounais

Crise humanitaire : l’Union européenne au secours des Camerounais: Débloque 10,8 milliards de FCFA pour nourrir les Camerounais Le Cameroun reçoit un appui financier de 10,8 milliards de FCFA de la Commission européenne pour répondre à une situation humanitaire qui ne cesse de se dégrader. L’aide vise les populations les plus fragiles, confrontées aux déplacements…

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Prayers Don’t Stop Wars

  The Pope has zero influence in stopping the war in the Southern Cameroons, Federal Republic of Ambazonia. Prayers have zero influence. Even Ambazonian fighters and French Cameroun soldiers have limited influence on ending the war. Wars always end through negotiations between both parties, the belligerent parties. They don’t end on social media or through…

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Cameroon’s Engineered Chaos: When a Nation Is Turned Against Itself in Bui and Ngokitunjia

Cameroon’s Engineered Chaos: When a Nation Is Turned Against Itself in Bui and Ngokitunjia By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News A Moment Where Ambiguity Ends There are moments in the life of a people when ambiguity becomes a luxury they can no longer afford. This is one of those moments. What is unfolding…

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Cameroon, A Market Without Direction

The Cost of Uncertainty: How Leadership Drift, Intellectual Dependency, Institutional Docility, and Centralized Power in French Cameroun Are Undermining Business Confidence By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News A Market Without Direction In every functioning economy, investors look for one signal above all others: direction. Not perfection. Not even absolute stability. But a clear…

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