New Deal at 41 : Crisis Regions Under Resolute Reconstruction

Today (6 November, 2023) counts 41 years of President Paul Biya at the helm of Cameroon. His slogan from 1982 has been the “New Deal”. And so his reign came with high hopes much of which the ruling class agree has been fulfilled. His stewardship has been recorded in spheres to include peace initiatives, educational revolution, democratic overture, the zeal for national unity and non-aligned diplomacy. Those aspects of the New Deal construct earned feathers on the regime’s cap with the peaceful resolution of the Bakassi dispute on 12 June 2006 at Green Tree (USA). There, Cameroon’s Paul Biya and Nigeria’s Olusegun Obasanjo met with United Nation’s Koffi Atta Annan for peace. Their meeting followed an earlier ruling of the International Court of Justice at the Hague on 10 October, 2002.
Political top notches have been mentioning today’s educational boom as a reality with State Universities in all 10 regions of Cameroon, High Schools in all 360 Sub-Divisions of the Country, Secondary Schools in all villages and Primary Schools in every neigbourhood. The multiplicity of political parties averaging 300 in the Country, however viable, counts it as a gift of governmental overture to the people. The protection of the nation has also been founded on non-alignment or non-siding with either polarized big dictators of world policies to avoid controversies for the State.
Unfortunately, much of the enumerated  achievements to keep Cameroon in the development trend was thwarted, dashed and quashed in 2013 with the invasion of the Far North Region by the nebulous Boko Haram Sect. Their armed intrusion wreaked havoc on the population with the hidden but revealed aim to conquer territory, install a fanatical, caliphate state with a non-educational rule. Security experts have gone further to hint that the string holders of the Boko Haram were fronting them to exploit the mineral-rich land. Massive destruction of investments and properties has been the order of the day in the Far North Region where the armed sect aimed to plant its hegemony. Employing tooth and nail, weapon and wit, the defence and security forces have succeeded to push them back. The adversity word along the lane has been destruction requiring a reconstruction plan.
As if it doesn’t rain but it pours, the Anglophone crisis erupted in 2016 keeping the North West and South West Regions restive till date. Much of the acquired development efforts have sunk to ruins under smoking guns, crushing battles and gulping fire in the name of Anglophone socio-political crisis. Those have been distracting instances causing the regime to be picking pieces and reconstructing already acquired advancement strides in the Far North, North West and South West Regions of the country.    
Reconstruction        
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