Vol 49 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
Anglophone leader John Fru Ndi’s opposition Social Democratic Front has continued to lose support due both to his uncompromising leadership style and to RDPC tactics to marginalise him...
The veteran opposition leader John Fru Ndi describes the talk of a coup as an attempt to distract attention from the debate about constitutional changes so that Biya can hold on to power after his mandate ends in 2011; the President would then be 78 with 29 uninterrupted years in power behind him...
Chairman John Fru Ndi wants the polls annulled and reorganised by an independent electoral commission...
Vol 48 No 10 |
- PARLIAMENTS
On 22 July Biya's Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais which holds 148 of 180 parliamentary seats will face the weakened Social Democratic Front under the veteran Anglophone John Fru Ndi...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
SDF members of parliament called the reforms a ‘masquerade’ and their Chairman veteran Anglophone leader John Fru Ndi accused Biya of preparing ‘civil war’...
Biya at 73 is surrounded by a coterie of similarly veteran ministers and advisers facing an opposition leader Ni John Fru Ndi (65) who has lost the dynamism that once made his Social Democratic Front (SDF) a serious force...
On 4 October the Post newspaper of Cameroon published a front-page story alleging corrupt links between Social Democratic Front leader Ni John Fru Ndi and President Paul Biya...
92 per cent of the vote a crushing margin of victory against his bête noire the Anglophone leader John Fru Ndi whose prospects look limited after he logged just 17...
Apart from Biya himself the main players are Adamou Ndam Njoya of the Union Démocratique du Cameroun a Bamoun from the West and veteran opposition leader Ni John Fru Ndi (63) of the Social Democratic Front an Anglophone Bamileke from North-West Province (AC Vol 44 No 16)...
The opposition put up a disappointing show in the 2002 parliamentary elections (AC Vol 43 No 17) and the plan for a single candidate was doomed to failure after an 11 September SDF congress in Bamenda anointed John Fru Ndi as the party's 'candidate for the candidacy'...
On 10 May police detained Bakary Gassagay and Daïssala as well as Maidadi Saïdou Yaya former Vice-President of John Fru Ndi's Social Democratic Front (SDF) and now President of the Alliance des Forces Progressistes (AFP) in Maroua where they had hoped to hold a meeting on forming a political party...