Camair-Co revenue falls as customers leave

Camair-Co lost a net number of customers in the second quarter but continued its upward revenue momentum, with tickets sales growing under 3% to an estimated less than £ 150m..and as it struggles against strong performances at its rivals and a reputation for poor customer service. Its revenue decreased 5%. The company does not disclose its profits until interim results in October. 

Camair-Co are not really a good team player company in the aviation business world as they are reluctant to provide financial information when asked to do so.

Its average revenue per user rose to £25 a month. The Cameroon national airlines company reported smaller losses for the first half of the year, boosted by more passengers demands for travelling.

Demands for travelling is growing but actually many more prefer to use Air France-KLM rather to travel with the company.

There are losses made in pre-tax and the management is willing to change that by offering more and more exciting and attractive tickets cost.

Air France-KLM losses widen after the company posted a £186.5m net loss for the quarter on July 27 as fuel bills rose and it took a knife to plans to offer more seats next winter amid mounting fears over the Eurozone debt crisis.

In the other hand regarding the fuel bills rising, Camair-Co appears reluctant of providing information about losses as the company also has been affected and badly affected by the fuel bills rising.

Europe`s largest airline by revenue said its operating loss widened from a year ago to less than £120m but predicted it would still be able to eke out a positive result for the year.

Revenue rose 8.7% to£7.028bn and passenger traffic rose 9.4%. But turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East and the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis all combined to cause £ 113m in losses.

Camair-Co will be opening new destinations in order to increase revenue and also to improve the company financial capability.

  At the moment as one of the company`s mission is  to change the landscape of the air transport in Cameroon, in Africa and in the rest of the world, the management doesn`t seem to communicate too much even one of the insider said that the group recurring operating profit would still be higher than last year`s level for the year as a whole, helped by  a productivity improvement plan.

Camair-Co need to buy a specialist travel group in order to boost their revenue and that could also generate more money in from its international operations...

Paul Biya must breathe new life into his government

Paul Biya has lost his political virginity on scandal and corruption. There are more ex-government ministers in jail from his several previous government than there were during the first ever " democratic" elected "  former president", El Hadji Amadu Ahidjio.

Close relatives of the former Cameroonian Head of State, revealed once that, he had in private told them that " Your senses and decision-making are upended, tossed about on the waves of some fresh revelation until you fear that you will never get to calmer waters".

This was when he was told about corruption allegations where some of the government ministers were deeply involved and most of them were his close ones.

The country has shown just little intention of getting ride of the corruption after Transparency International 2000`s annual report put the country ahead of those who made no single effort to fight against corruption.

 There are policies in place. But in reality less is being done to fight against corruption and embezzlement.  Cameroon has long projected an image of itself since year 2000 as a paragon of good governance and the rule of law.

After his three days official visit to China where he renewed a 40 years old cooperation between both countries, Paul Biya now must face the reality.

As he prepares to head off with his family on private holiday in a couple of weeks time, his government battered and bruised by the turmoil over corruption. Paul Biya has always been pleased with how he managed to salvage a situation that at any time can spiralling out of control.

He is that charismatic showman able to shake off shackles threatening him with doom. Paul Biya of course had people such as Pr Jacques Fame Ndongo, Rene Sadi, Gregoire Owona, Bello Bouba Maigari, Isa Tchirouma Bakary who are never afraid to throw themselves on a microphone to defend the government and the Head of State action.

 But today there is a dearth of confident and combative performance in the government`s upper ranks, a problem that needs to be addressed rapidly before the next presidential election. Everything is done to hampering its ability to get across its message.

 In this situation, the Prime Minister needs a pugnacious party  chairman to tour broadcasting studios, on-line magazine and print press in a crisis.There is unlikely to be an immediate reshuffle, although the promotion of new faces would strengthen the government.

 Paul Biya strongly believes in keeping people in post for longer than has been the case in recent political history. Biya has only two months left after his holiday break to think about reinvigorate his government, armed with a renewed sense of purpose, bold new reforms and possibly even......
Paul Biya needs to review his policies and reshuffle the ministers charged with delivering them...

Cameroon`s opposition threatens million-strong protest to stop Biya`regime winning power

Secularists in power in Cameroon say they are not yet ready for a change in power and regime....

Cameroon activists are threatening to bring mass pro-real-democracy protests and call for a regime changed in Yaounde, with a million-strong occupation of " Rond-point de la Poste Centrale" in September unless the ruling coalition government and his " Fidelity and Honour " strong and heavily armed, army generals abandon their current " road map" to Cameroon future or a new vision for the country...

In an increasingly rancorous debate which has developed into a proxy underground war between the nation`s secular political forces and a coalition of newcomers, that describe  themselves as liberal and modernists, opposition and human rights campaigners have joined forces to demand that plans to hold elections in October  are dropped and that the coalition government should the election register to all who are eligible and can vote to register before the end of the legal procedure of registration...

Campaigners fear the existing underground and unofficial post Biya transition programme will just be a continuation of the same regime without any change and that programme might cede permanent power to the army.

Cameroonians will not remain silent on attempts by an irrelevant elite to impose a liberal secular regime on the people, said Celestin Bedzigui  the former president of the " Party pour l`Alliance Liberal" Pal that has emerged long time with the Undp..." The National Union for Democracy and Progress" led by Bello Bouba Maigari.

Whoever wins the next presidential elections is going to play a major role in writing a new constitution and they are therefore going to play a major in shaping the political foundations of the new Cameroon.

Concerns are mountains that a raft of new political parties, including many claiming to represent the " revolutionary women and youth movement" that helped in the last couple of months to dismantle and to reduce the influence and the popularity of the opposition in some regions of the country have no even completed the formal party registration process yet and will be in no position to mount a successful appeal for votes by October this year..

The coalition government is clearly ready for the elections now. The main political party in the coalition government is been ready for long time whereas the newcomers who have not participate in the political process under Biya`s regime are not and still looking to recruit voters and sympathisers around the country...

Cameroon, another failed States in the "danger " zone...

 With a flurry of elections hitting Africa this year, Cameroon is one of the many countries where things could get lively, may be too lively.

From the new Failed States Index, three African states -- Somalia, Chad, and Sudan -- once again top this year's Failed States Index, the annual ranking prepared by the Fund for Peace and published by FOREIGN POLICY of the world's most vulnerable countries.

Cameroon from that report scored 94.6 compare to last year and occupied the 24 rank from 26th. That means that the country is doing less effort to improve democracy and accountability and the country is listed on the danger zone.


But there are young political leaders and activists who think that, there is another way of bringing the change to all this. Jean Blaise Gwet former CEO and businessman now running for the presidency. Talking on the phone he said that he will renegotiate all the previous cooperation agreement that the government has signed with former imperialists.

Jean Blaise said that there is a fundamental need of change and also of reviewing all the agreements that the country signed long time ago with foreign donors so that the country could be able to benefit from this and no to continue to act as a beggar and not a donors as well.

Gwet believes that the country has the potential to change and to improve governance and also move into the world market with new faces and real motivation rather than to stay stuck or stagnant. He also call those who are in exile to come back and join to fight for a real change and help the country to become the real " Indomitable Lions" on economic and growth in Africa.

The new edition of the index draws on some 130,000 publicly available sources to analyze 177 countries and rate them on 12 indicators of pressure on the state during the year 2010 -- from refugee flows to poverty, public services to security threats.

Taken together, a country's performance on this battery of indicators tells us how stable -- or unstable -- it is.
And the latest results show how much the 2008 economic crisis and its ripple effects everywhere, from collapsing trade to soaring food prices to stagnant investment, are still haunting the world.


Kenya moved out of the top 15, showing that the country continues to recover from its bloody post-election ethnic warfare of recent years. Liberia and East Timor, wards of the United Nations, largely stayed out of trouble.

But Haiti, already a portrait of misery, moved up six places on the index, battered and struggling to cope with the aftermath of January 2010's tragic earthquake, which left more than 300,000 dead. Another former French colony, Ivory Coast, rejoined the top 10, grimly foreshadowing its devastating post-election crisis this year, while fragile Niger leap four spots amid a devastating famine.


It's the year of the African election, with 27 countries scheduled to hold presidential, legislative, or local polls throughout 2011. And as much as elections can contribute to democratic progress, in the immediate term they can often be a flash point for conflict.

Recent examples abound: The Ivory Coast was thrown into a four-month crisis when its outgoing president, Laurent Gbagbo, refused to accept the victory of his opponent, President Alassane Ouattara. Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni won reelection in February, but the opposition has cried foul and his inauguration was marred by violent protests.

In regional giant Nigeria, post-election violence killed as many as 800 people. Sudan's closely watched referendum in January on an independent southern state was surprisingly free of bloodshed, but the country continues to hover on the brink of new violence.

Cameroon is on a critical constant   watch by  US, France, UK, China, Canada, Japan. UAE and many more countries...and there is a huge accumulated frustration among many section of the Cameroonian public over the slow pace of reform since the last election in 2004. There has been particular anger over the perceived lack of accountability for the old regime.

Cameroon elections 2011: New talks with the Southern Cameroon National Council

Obama`a administration will resume discretionary contact with the Southern Cameroon National Council. This has been put on hold by Bush`s administration because of the frequent instability of the leadership of the group.

The move is likely to upset France and its US supporters who have deep misgivings about the Southern Cameroon National Council. a movement founded  in the early 1990s in Cameroon, the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) is an Anglophone separatist organization.

The SCNC advocates the secession of the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest provinces from the mostly French-speaking remainder of Cameroon.

 The group has been outlawed by the Cameroonian government.

But since Paul Biya brought what it stand today as a kind of " democracy" in cameroon where mbers of the movement are frequently arrested and detained for " illegal activism" and also " unauthorised actvity" in the entire territory, the southern cameroon national council is seen as a major force in forthcoming elections.

One of the Secretary of State advisors, portrayed the administration`s decision as a continuation of an earlier policy, but according to him, it reflects a subtle shift in that US officials will be able to deal directly with officials of the Scnc who are not yet recognised officially as members of an authorized political party, but who are all cameroonian citizens.

A spokewoman from the Secretary of State, said that " it is in the interests of the United States to engage with all parties that are peaceful and committed to non-violence". But government official said that the " Southern Cameroon National Council`s action is to divide a unite country and this is something that the government will fight against and will not permit anyone to divide the country". 

Nfor  Ngala Nfor, the acting vice-chairman and the self proclaimed president of the new country, the English cameroon, Frederick Alobwede Ebong are the main figure of the english speaking cameroonian who are in favor of the seceesion of the One country.