In
Cameroon UNHCR Partners With
Biya Government In Bamenda
Silence From Guterres and
Fleming
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, August 17 –After
Paul Biya who
has ruled
Cameroon for 37
years on
January 28 had
his opponent
Maurice Kamto
arrested,
Inner City
Press again asked UN
Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres and
his spokesmen for
their comment
and action, if
any. This came
after Guterres
had Inner City
Press roughed
up on 3
July 2018
after it
interviewed Biya's
Ambassador
about the two
men's Budget
Committee
deals and banned
from the UN
since -
Guterres even tried
to get Inner
City Press
banned from
the Park East
Synagogue,
here, which
was denied /
dodged by his
French spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric, who put
up then took
down a podcast
in which he
brags about
his "mutually
assured
destruction"
relationship
with
journalists, here.
Now with
Guterres gone
missing for two
weeks, this
from UNHCR of
his incoming Global Communicator
Melissa
Fleming: "The
situation in
the North West
and South West
regions
remained tense
in July, with
many
localities
being
destroyed and
persons
displaced as
fighting
continues
between
security
forces and
non-state
armed groups.
This, added to
the continuous
lockdowns in
the afflicted
areas and use
of explosives
by fighters
have increased
population
movements with
few people
only returning
for short
periods to
check on
family,
property or
harvest crops.
Between 22 and
26 July,
hostilities
forced an
estimated 50
households of
about 300
individuals in
Bafmeng, NW
region to move
to nearby
bushes.
Meanwhile, on
03 July, a
delegation of
UN Agencies
and Cluster
Leads led by
OCHA visited
the Regional
Humanitarian
Coordination
Centre to
discuss on
modalities for
the
distribution
of
humanitarian
assistance and
on 26 July,
heads of
Agencies met
in
UNHCR-Bamenda
to finalise on
the procedures
put in place
in partnership
with
government
through the
Regional
Humanitarian
Coordination
Centres (RHCC)
for
humanitarian
assistance to
persons of
concern in
these areas." This
while Guterres
conceals his
financial
links to CEFC
China Energy
and has Inner
City Press
banned for 409
days and
counting. And
what do
missing censor
Guterres, and
his Communicator Melissa Fleming who
has been
written to,
say? So far,
nothing. Watch
this site.
On July
22 Inner City
Press was provided
from Yaounde
with video a
protest in
prison by
people illegally detained. Inner
City Press
asked Guterres, his
deputy Amina
J. Mohammed,
his
vacationing
(in France)
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric and
his deputy
Farhan Haq:
"July 22-3: On
Cameroon,
after the SG
took Biya's
golden statue
and UN Budget
Committee
favors, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
from him and
separately DSG
Amina J.
Mohammed on
the protests
today by those
Ambazonians
illegally
detained in
Kondengui
Central
Prison?"
While Haq's
dying noon
briefing
lasted only
until 12:14 pm
he did not
answer this or
any other
written
question from
Inner City
Press, which
published the
video here.
Inner
City Press live
tweeted
the shameful
May UNSC
session and uploaded
Guterres' envoy
Francois
Fall's
failing
statement here.
More
here.
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