To
Cameroon
New UNDP Rep Is Science Po Bordeau Student
Jean Luc Stalon
FrancAfrique As Guterres
UN Reform
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, February 4 – After
Paul Biya who
has ruled
Cameroon for
36 years on
January 28 had
his opponent
Maurice Kamto
arrested,
Inner City
Press again asked UN
Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres and
his spokesmen for
their comment
and action, if
any. This came
after Guterres
had Inner City
Press roughed
up on 3
July 2018
after it
interviewed Biya's
Ambassador
about the two
men's Budget
Committee
deals and banned
from the UN
since. Even
banned, Inner
City Press
exclusively
reported that
inside
the UN in a
closed door
meeting with
staff Guterres
said that
human rights
questions to
governments are
impolite and
arrogant.
Video here.
Maybe that's
why the most
his Resident
Coordinator in
Cameroon
Allegra
Baiocchi can
muster,
as Biya's
slaughters
Anglophones
after Guterres' envoy
Francois Lounceny
Fall equated
secessionist with
extremists is
to re-tweet a
group that
didn't
consider
Cameroon a top 90
problem in its
2018 World
Report, on the
proposition
that If you
say, 'Killing
civilians is
acceptable,
because we’re
fighting
terrorists,'
Then you’d
probably make
a pretty good
terrorist. Was
that passive
aggressive pseudo-trolling of
Paul Biya? To
this has the
UN been
reduced by
Guterres.
And this, on supposed
reform: after
the power grab
of the Resident
Coordinator
system from UN
Development
Programm
to Amina J.
Mohammed, now
coming
to Cameroon as
UNDP's new "Resident
Representative"
is a PhD
student at Science Po
Bordeau,
Jean-Luc
Stalon. Can
you see,
FrancAfrique?
This is
how Guterres'
UN works, or doesn't.
On Cameroon
here is what
Inner City
Press has
asked in
writing to
Guterres, his
deputy Amina
J. Mohammed
(in Nigeria),
USG
Alison Smale,
spokesman Farhan
Haq and Stephane
Dujarric
and others:
"While your
Administration
and Office of
the
Spokesperson
have refused
to answer a
single written
question from
Inner City
Press for
fourteen work
days, in
contravention
of conventions
USG Smale made
to UN Special
Rapporteur
David Kaye and
Spokesman
Dujarric made
on camera, two
formal
questions for
immediate
answer and
confirmation
of
receipt
1) in Cameroon
it is reported
that
opposition
figure Maurice
Kamto as been
arrested,
after the 100+
arrests and
shootings
Inner City
Press asked
you about
earlier today.
Please explain
how it is
legitimate to
ban from enter
into the UN
the media that
has been
asking about
these and
other
questions,
with no
hearing or
appeal.
On deadline."
For
sixteen hours,
no answer, no
acknowledgment
of receipt,
nothing.
More
here.
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