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.
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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.
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.
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