Francophones Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/francophones/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 19 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Francophones Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/francophones/ 32 32 Cameroon lawmakers vote to allow English-speaking minority more rights https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/cameroon-lawmakers-vote-to-allow-english-speaking-minority-more-rights/ Thu, 19 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/cameroon-lawmakers-vote-to-allow-english-speaking-minority-more-rights/ Cameroon’s English speaking minority has been granted special astute i the two regions they inhabit in the West African country. The breakthrough hopefully ending more than two years of violent conflict is a result of the Grand National Dialogue called by President Paul Biya. The Senate still has to approve the Bill before it is […]

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]]> Cameroon’s English speaking minority has been granted special astute i the two regions they inhabit in the West African country.

The breakthrough hopefully ending more than two years of violent conflict is a result of the Grand National Dialogue called by President Paul Biya.

The Senate still has to approve the Bill before it is promulgated.

When they do the regions in the north west snd south west of the country – which have complained about being marginalized by the Francophone majority – will be allowed to develop public policies in the area of education and justice.

President Paul Biya is betting on this decentralization law putting the brakes on secession talks by the Anglophones in addition to ending the conflict that has cost more than  3 000 lives.

 

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