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A French language newspaper Repères of Wednesday, June 6, 2018, has reported that negotiations are currently taking place for a deployment of the United Nations peacekeeping force to Cameroon, and precisely to the troubled Northwest and Southwest regions.
According to the paper, Barrister Akere Muna, one of the candidates in the upcoming presidential elections in Cameroon, could be behind this lobby, given that he has been at the United Nations headquarters in New York for some time now, the paper has reported.
The paper has added that this trip to the UN headquarters by the venerated international lawyer comes after he (Akere Muna) requested an international fact-finding mission on alleged human rights violations by the military, alleged genocide and crimes against humanity”.
But, the French language bi-weekly newspaper also went further to opine that, the situation in the Northwest and Southwest regions is not “serious enough to require UN intervention”.
“The announced return of the populations who have taken refuge in neighboring Nigeria is a tangible proof of this,” the paper wrote.
It adds that "the rapid intervention battalion (BIR) is not hesitating to take care of the affected populations in Akwaya through the administration of free care, or the distribution of foodstuff.
According to Repères, the missions assigned to the UN force, namely the monitoring and enforcement of the cease-fire, the disarmament and demobilization of combatants, the protection of civilian populations, the maintenance of order, the protection of refugees and the maintenance of human rights, are for the moment, well executed by the Cameroonian defense and security forces.
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