While the image of Cameroon is increasingly tarnished Abroad, the government and pressure groups seeking to "control" the diaspora.
Cameroon's image taking a beating in recent months. Two reports from the International Crisis Group has compiled a photograph particularly alarmist about Cameroon. Indicating that the risks of ethnic divisions in the army and the conquest of power, many institutional failures posed on Cameroon, the risks of political instability. The report "Doing Business" on economic issues has put Cameroon into the back of the pack in several countries in terms of term investment facilities. A ranking of the journal "Foreign Policy" has placed the Cameroonian President Paul Biya of the worst dictators in the world.
Behind these reports, there are some who are quick to see the hand of Cameroonian activists living abroad. Moreover, there are only a few months, Celestin Bedzigui, Cameroonian politician living in the USA decided to enter the United Nations (UN) that property be carried on an investigation of the riots in February 2008 the repressed forces of order and resulting in the deaths of hundreds of young Cameroonians. In addition, movements of the Head of State of Cameroon are increasingly disrupted by events by some Cameroonians abroad. While the power of Yaounde major investments (in medial international) in buying advertising space to improve its image abroad, some Cameroonians stormed the news websites to criticize the actions of Government and convey diatribes against President Paul Biya. Diaspora seems increasingly hinder the power of Yaounde. Therefore, this diaspora is increasingly courted. Last July, Washington, United States, held the first conference of the Cameroon disapora for Change (Camdiac). The conference was highly political Cameroonians together several of the opposition and even the former captain coup (in the case of failed coup of 1984), Guerande Mbara. According Adamou Ndam Njoya, leader of the opposition party (CDU), who was speaking at a press conference in Yaounde, the Washington meeting was to "discuss methods for a democratic revolution that benefits all Cameroon ". Objective felted thus: "Paul Biya of drive power" as suggested by one participant in the conference.
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few weeks after this conference, another segment of the Diaspora has meeting in Yaounde for the first economic forum and comercial (forecdia 2010). This meeting organized by the government in Yaounde - as if to give the reply to Camdiac - the general objective "to bring the Cameroonian Diaspora to participate more meaningfully in the economic and social development" of Cameroon. If it is unclear how the resolutions of the Washington meeting (no formal synthesis has been delivered to the press even if the leader of the political party Democratic Union of Cameroon said it had not acted to talk of a coup state), the Yaoundé had a meager harvest: it is announced the establishment of an investment fund of the diaspora.
Cameroonian Diaspora is the purpose of solicitation. Much by the regime of Paul Biya by forces that challenge. The regime intends to use the diaspora as a reinforcing element by which it would contribute its expertise in technical, scientific and economic development without jeopardizing the political control that the regime exercises over Cameroon. For cons for groups adversarial, it is to mobilize the diaspora playing precisely on a certain capacity of arrests of many networks of the diaspora that challenges the credibility, efficiency or the legitimacy of political and institutional system in Cameroon today. In view of these opposing forces, the involvement and engagement of the diaspora in Cameroon will be primarily political because it is believed that the institutional system is not relevant "political scientist Owona Nguini analysis. "The way a number of groups close to the diaspora contentious politics mobilized at the case of presidential vacation or at the report of the Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development (CCFD) to shown that these groups could influence the image of Cameroon outside and on the reputation of his government. That is why the government seems to have changed tack by undertaking a dialogue with a number of circles of the diaspora, a diaspora of political structure is more favorable to him "he adds.
Dredge measured
Government now wants to integrate the Diaspora in the components of its organizational structure. He avoids any mention of her (this was again demonstrated during the forum in Yaounde) two major issues: voting rights and dual citizenship. In addition Increasingly, the Cameroonians abroad want to vote pariticiper makers and want to enjoy the Cameroonian nationality law does not grant to all those who decide to take another nationality. The pressure now is increasing the power of Yaounde, even as she seeks the contribution of the Diaspora, to grant voting rights. A political risk that the regime in power because feared, it did not guarantee that this fringe of Cameroon would give their votes. In the event that the diaspora vote overwhelmingly against him, it would be difficult to explain the contrast between the rejection of its compatriots abroad and those living on its territory. Until he must concede that voting power in Yaounde trying to pick up the pieces. He now intends to organize an economic and trade forum with the Diaspora each year. And, President Paul Biya has recently promised to "return" on certain claims of the diaspora. Until, perhaps, be held the next presidential election in which some attribute to him the desire to take part.
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