French President Emmanuel Macron showed up later than expected Monday in Cameroon toward the beginning of a three-country visit through western Africa. He will likewise visit Benin and Guinea-Bissau with an end goal to reestablish French relations with the African landmass. The papers in Yaoundé are don't know what to think about everything.
The first page of the French-language everyday, Realities, summarizes the disarray.
At the highest point of the page, there's a call from Labor Minister Grégoire Owono, coordinated at what the clergyman calls "activists and rivals" of the French official visit. Owono lets them know they are persuaded by jalousy and ought to stop.
Underneath that, there's an article in which the resistance UPC proclaim themselves joined behind long-lasting President Paul Biya, and approach him to utilize the gathering with the French chief to underline Cameroonian power and to require another arrangement which will be to the advantage, all things considered.
Which might be anticipating excessive from a short visit.
Battle among France and Cameroon
Clément Boursin, the African head of Cristian Action for the Abolition of Torture, is on the first page ofLe Jour. He says "Macron ought to discuss the conflict being pursued among Cameroon and France".
The title is confounding on the grounds that the strained is off-base, truth be told. What Clément Boursin is by all accounts referring to (and I base this on an aggregate article in the present Paris-based Le Monde) is the "provincial and neocolonial war which France has pursued, blue-penciled and denied for the beyond 60 years".
Will Emmanuel Macron be the main president to formally acknowledge that contention," the journalists miracle, "and end one of the extraordinary post-war French restrictions?"
The Guardian Post conveys a fundamental title message from Cameroon's primary resistance, the Social Democratic Front.
"As Macron comes visiting," we read, "SDF urges France to apologize, make up for pre-independance period abominations".
An admonition
What's more, the lower part of a similar Guardian Post first page has a stressing message from the spririt domain, with a story where a "Conspicuous Prophet" cautions that the visit of the French chief means catastrophe beyond a shadow of a doubt "nobles of the decision Cameroon People's Democratic Movement".
The week after week paper Signatures, which vows to "Notice plainly, relate briskly", says Emmanuel Macron is a reluctant guest to Cameroon.
The president comes to Yaoundé in "a place of shortcoming", the week by week paper claims, "with an end goal to save what can be saved of French interests in Cameroon, interests which are overall determinedly shaved away.
"He's here since he's apprehensive," Signatures icily and obviously attests.
More practical, the business day to day Economy, says the two chiefs should examine the conflict in Ukraine and the effect that contention keeps on having on grain supplies to Africa.
Accusing the French
The week by week Diapason cautions the "Macron is diving into pained waters" with this visit.
"There is an overall enemy of French inclination," the paper says, and that depends on the way that Cameroon is "suffocating in a progression of safety, wellbeing and monetary emergencies." Blame the French.
The first page of an extraordinary version of Cameroon Today conveys a horrid admonition for the French chief: "Our phantoms say you are not wanted, Mr President".
The phantoms are the legends of the battle for freedom, individuals like Félix Moumié and Amadou Ahidjo, casualties, as per the week after week paper, of French severity in the "dim hours" of late Cameroonian history.
Africa, says Cameroon Today, is becoming irritated with France, a country which is plainly losing its quality of impact on the world stage. An official guilty concession won't put everything right, except it would be a positive development.
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