Governors meet on Boko Haram, Ebola in the North

Number one enemy and great nightmare of peoples in the North, especially for its repeated bloody forays, the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram with Ebola virus scare, were main topics at a meeting of the Governors of Cameroonian regions on Wednesday in Yaounde.

One year after the previous in December 2013 under the theme 'administrative authorities ': policing and security issues ", the traditional conference of Governors of regions of Cameroon devoted its first quarterly session of the current year, its three days reflection on the "security challenges, present hazards health and implementation of growth-generating projects".

This choice, in the opinion of the Minister of Territorial Administration and decentralization René Emmanuel Sadi, who presided over these meetings, holds that conditions and environment inspired the theme of the consultation.

Since the abduction of a French family (Moulin-Fournier), his first action of brilliance in the country in February 2013, this terrorist organization tends to make Cameroon one of its theaters of operation, with repeated attacks and actions that the Minister of Territorial Administration described as "horrific".

Many others like the abduction of a dozen Chinese employees of a company responsible for the implementation of a road construction orchestrated in the same region on the eve of a regional summit at which president Paul Biya took part on 17 may in Paris on this scourge, on the initiative of François Holland, alongside his Nigerian peers Goodluck Jonathan and Chad Idriss Déby Itno.

July 27, it was the turn of the wife of the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Relations with the assemblies Amadou Ali along side 15 other people in Kolofata, the birthplace of this governmental personality that also borders with Nigeria.

Certainly the Cameroonian Authority welcomes its response against the Nigerian Islamist sect who, according to Minister Sadi, "earns today encouraging results", an allusion to the numerous human losses inflicted on the Organization, and "reassures people" and it "ensures the safeguarding of our territorial integrity".

However, the recommendations made to the Governors of regions on the occasion of the meeting held in Yaoundé are intended to intensify the fight, by the strict application of surveillance measures and protection of national territory mandated by the Summit of the State, insisted the Minister of Territorial Administration.

The same instructions are given on the prevention against the epidemic Ebola and other 'pathologies to the extremely serious consequences "for which the Cameroonian authorities have recently decided to close the borders with affected countries, including neighbouring Nigeria.