Dear subscribers of camerounactuonline.com, good morning and thank you for connecting this morning to discover the essential news of our Cameroon. This February 3, 2025, the local press highlights the major events that have recently marked the scene. Cameroonian politics has attracted attention with a heated debate around Paul Biya’s candidacy for the next presidential election. The economic sector has also made the news, with several announcements.
The body of a deceased person vanished from the Yaoundé Central Hospital Morgue. The body of Honorine Ngono Ayina, widow of Eyebe, arrived on November 30, 2024 and was registered at the Yaoundé Central Hospital morgue, but it is nowhere to be found. The family demands answers, as do the Cameroonian people. Professor Pierre Joseph Fouda, director of the Yaoundé Central Hospital, announced the opening of an investigation led jointly by the gendarmerie and the police, with the support of the Ministry of Public Health. All leads are currently being considered, including an administrative error, a transfer of the body to another mortuary or even a kidnapping. The story of this extraordinary event can be read in the newspaper Echos Santé published on newsstands today.
“Luc Messi Atangana is playing with fire”, warns Le Zénith on newsstands this Monday, February 3, 2025. On page 3, the newspaper writes that by launching his campaign to clean up the city of Yaoundé during this period of palpable tension, the mayor of the city certainly did not measure all the consequences linked to his act. “The people of Yaoundé, like all Cameroonians, are living today in an impoverishment like no other. Taking away the little they have left through breakages and other means is synonymous with pushing them to revolt,” we read.
Conjoncture Economique speaks of the urgency of a renationalization of electrical energy in Cameroon. Considered a sector of sovereignty in most countries in the world, the electricity segment in Cameroon is being tested by foreign investors. Anything that calls into question the execution of many projects. According to the experts who speak in Jean Claude Kendeg’s newspaper, several reasons currently argue for nationalizing Eneo again. Through this operation, “the State of Cameroon could increase its assets and strengthen its energy independence,” believes our colleague.
Nestor Djiatou’s newspaper, Sans Détour, is interested in the concert of calls and support from political parties for Paul Biya’s candidacy in the 2025 presidential election. At the end of the audiences granted to their leaders by the Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji, on January 31, “the UPC, the MDR, the PCRN and the PRAC each launched an appeal for Paul Biya’s candidacy in the next presidential election, before promising him their unwavering support for a convincing victory in this election,” we can read.
The president of the CPDM Nyong-et-Mfoumou North section and also mayor of Ayos is more on the ground, to raise awareness among the populations of the district in general and particularly the activists and supporters of the ruling party, and to encourage people who are not yet on the lists to do so. This is information to be found in the columns of InfoMatin this morning.
“The UPC, the MDR, the Pcrn and the Prac have joined the cause of the CPDM candidate,” headlines Le Soir this morning. According to the newspaper on newsstands, all these political parties, led by their leaders, have expressly expressed their support for Paul Biya’s candidacy last Friday for the Ministry of Territorial Administration. Minister Paul Atanga Nji has promised to faithfully transmit to the Head of State each of the statements of these political parties.
Let’s talk politics with Bertrand Eba’s newspaper, Expression Politique returns to the case between Cabral Libii and Robert Kona. While the courts recognize Cabral Libii as the national president of the Cameroonian Party for National Reconciliation (Pcrn), and the Presidency of the Republic even invited him in this capacity to the ceremony of presentation of wishes to the Head of State on January 10, the Minister of Territorial Administration persists in enthroning Robert Kona. The analysis can be read in the newspaper.
Let’s talk about the economic crisis in Central Africa, with the States that according to the newspaper La Lettre à la Bourse, are “with their backs to the wall”. The countries of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa, whose economies are mainly based on hydrocarbons, are facing a persistent economic crisis. The prospects of a drop in oil prices, estimated at $70 per barrel in 2025 and $65 in 2026, are accentuating the budgetary fragility of the member States. With an average contribution of 40% of public revenues, this dependence exposes the economies of the sub-region. With the exception of Equatorial Guinea, these States plan to raise 1,317 billion CFA francs on the CEMAC public securities market by the end of March 2025 to balance their budget. Will they be able to do it? Read the experts’ opinion in the columns of the newspaper La Lettre à la Bourse.
Défis Actuels indicates in its edition of today that the IMF has just validated a disbursement of 75 billion FCFA in favor of Cameroon. In a press release published on January 30, 2025, “the International Monetary Fund (IMF) welcomed the progress made in the management and modernization of Cameroonian public finances, while calling for a review of the tax and customs advantages granted to investors,” we can read.
With Lebledparle
