A very informed and well-anchored observer in the cameroonian official circles and diplomacy asks cameroonians to know how to read between the lines.
He says it doesn’t often smell very good for African heads of states when these kind of missions are sent to a country.
” the arrival of 3 organizations on a joint mission in Cameroon looks like all these missions of diplomats who went down to Zaire at the end of the reign of moboutou, in Libya at the end of the reign of kadaffi or in Ivory Coast to ask Gbagbo to leave power.
We must ask ourselves the reason for the hearing of other political actors of the opposition, including the second in the presidential election Maurice Kamto, while officially the visit was about the English-speaking crisis.
What is really the reason for this visit?
Did the African Union, the francophonie that is France, and the commonwealth really need to move in a group to Cameroon to simply come and propose as a mediator of the anglophone crisis when they could do it through other channels?
The images of the lion man in France not only at elysee, but also during the peace conference with mo Ibrahim, during which, he preferred to read a speech instead of debate, are they clues of Understanding the real reason for the visit?
Here’s how young Africa will describe the starting scene of moboutou:
” on April 1997, 27, moboutou surrounded by his family and close collaborators, received a high-level us delegation led by the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson, which includes diplomats and members From The National Security Council and the CIA.
Exchange, Washington guarantees his personal safety.
Richardson delivers a letter from Bill Clinton asking him to meet Joseph Kabila and nominate a team to transfer power “
Let us observe that it is diplomats in service in a conference organization who have also been sent to yaoundé as in zaire with Bill Richardson and his delegation of United Nations Diplomats.
This visit to Cameroon is in the middle of the civil war as in zaire especially that after tibor nagy under American Secretary for African Affairs, said, a few days ago that the cameroonian army cannot win this war.
In Zaire, Laurent Désiré Kabila was progressing with his troops.
Curious similar, moboutou called himself the great leopard and in Cameroon, we talk about the lion man.
Moboutou was tired. The famous images of Paris also showed some worrying signs that could have determined the powers to send this mission to cameroon.”
Ngoura Ngoura
Analyst Geostratège
Hamburg Hamburg