Cameroon: President Macron's remarks continue to make waves

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The release of Emmanuel Macron, arrested last Saturday by a Cameroonian activist at the Paris Agricultural Show, continues to make waves in Cameroon. Today almost all the newspapers appearing in Yaoundé have dealt with the subject, with obviously readings which diverge according to the editorial lines. In addition, a demonstration took place in front of the French Embassy in Yaoundé.

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Between 400 and 600 people, according to an estimate by the police and the gendarmerie, were mobilized at midday at the entrance to the French embassy, ​​to protest against the attitude of French President Emmanuel Macron. Most of the demonstrators carried flags of Cameroon while others waved signs hostile to the French president.

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This Monday, February 24, almost all of the newspapers appearing in Yaoundé dealt with the subject. With obviously readings which diverge according to the editorial lines.

The daily Le Messager in its daily delivery strikes the headlines with the questioning title “ Cameroon, who governs? "Speaks of external pressures after the revelations of President Macron arrested by a Cameroonian activist at the Paris agricultural show. The newspaper writes that the French president has confessed that it was under his dictation that the Cameroonian head of state released Maurice Kamto and his co-defendants, reports our correspondent in Yaoundé , Polycarpe Essoma .

The daily newspaper Émergence , in the same vein, underlines that Emmanuel Macron has " humiliated " Paul Biya, thus revealing without content the content of his exchanges with his Cameroonian counterpart. For this colleague, Emmanuel Macron has simply " dezinced " Paul Biya.

The daily newspaper Le Jour tries to decipher the message of the French president and wonders: " What is France playing at? And to recall that Emmanuel Macron was one of the only Western heads of state to have addressed his congratulations to Paul Biya after the presidential election in October 2018.

" Macron the immature, " headlines the weekly Repères. In a vitriolic editorial, the colleague believes that the French president has betrayed the honors of his office by violating the unwritten codes that frame the word of a head of state. And this newspaper to advise him the reading of the book A president should not say that, of Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme.

Finally, the weekly La Météo notes that " Macron makes Cameroonians angry ". And to conclude that the words of the French president are not only an insult against Paul Biya but also an attack in order to the sovereignty of Cameroon.

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• Paul Biya
• France
• Emmanuel Macron

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