04 December 2022
Tigray/Ethiopia: According to the chief of staff of Tigray's forces, 65% of his troops “have disengaged from the battlefront” in the month since the ceasefire agreement and “were moving to designated places”. But not all would disengage as long as there was a threat “from forces that didn’t want peace” – by which he meant Eritrean forces and Amhara militias.
BBC Africa Latest Updates 04 December 2022. 11:32
03 December 2022
Cameroon: When Paul Biya came to power in 1982, “he promised political liberalisation, including democracy, civil and human rights and economic advancement” and he tried to achieve some of these aims at first. But after the 1984 coup attempt, he “became increasingly unyielding”. Though he had to put a multi-party system in place in the 1990s, he transformed it into “a monolithic system” that has kept him on the throne for 40 years due to “ruthlessness and political astuteness”. Elections are “little more than a procedural inconvenience” where Biya absolutely cannot lose. With more than 300 political parties, the Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounaise faces no unified or consolidated opposition. Biya maintains a rent-seeking political class feeding on the country’s proceeds of cocoa and timber exports. And he is by no means squeamish about putting those who dare resist into jail. Overall, this leaves “no facet of public life untouched by the Biya regime”
https://theconversation.com/paul-biya-has-been-cameroons-president-for-40-years-and-he-might-win-office-yet-again-194856