Cameroon welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron on his first ride to Africa seeing that his re-election closing in April. The go-to additionally consists of Benin and Guinea-Bissau.
The go-to comes at a time whilst France is assigned to "renovate" its navy partnerships on the continent to preserve its strategic opposition withinside the face of growing effects on Turkey, China, and Russia.
"It's far excellent information for Africa, Central Africa, and Cameroon whilst we see the present day socio-political context with the hostility of France in Mali, the battle in Ukraine, it's far an excellent thing. France is coming to Cameroon to heat its family members and make stronger its aid whilst we realize the strategic position that Cameroon performs in Central Africa. It is an excellent go-to now", stated Cameroonian banker Ndzomo Essomba Henri.
Food disaster and safety are pinnacles of the schedule with the results of the battle in Ukraine withinside the delivery of grain being a primary concern; many additionally need human rights to characteristic prominently withinside the discussions between Macron and the Cameroonian president, Paul Biya.
"We realize that France is a rustic of human rights - every person has their faults - however, it's far a rustic of human rights and it might now no longer be top for President Macron to return right here and now no longer positioned the human rights issues, that are properly reputable in France, at the desk together along with his counterpart. That is our wish", affirmed Maximilienne Ngo Mbe, Executive Director of Redhat (the Central African Human Rights Defenders Network).
Cameroon has been riven by ethnic violence and an insurgency through anglophone separatists. Some would like the French president to satisfy with contributors of the competition.
"We agree with that, other than the political prisoners of the MRC, there's additionally the query of the discharge of the presumed political prisoners of the Anglophone disaster. Why might the French president now no longer additionally meet with the leaders of the Anglophone secessionist claims in addition to the political leaders of the competition in Cameroon", stated Pierre Emmanuel Binyam, conversation officer of the competition party, the Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon, MRC?
On Wednesday, Macron will tour Benin, accompanied through Guinea-Bissau on Thursday, whose President Umaro Sissoco Embalo is making ready to take the helm of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
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