Cameroon Echoes {Echos Camerounais}

The hate and the quake

cc Gloria Mundi‘Haiti did not fail,’ writes Hilary Beckles, ‘it was destroyed by two of the most powerful nations on earth, both of which continue to have a primary interest in its current condition.' Buried 'beneath the rubble of imperial propaganda', says Beckle, is 'the evidence which shows that Haiti's independence was defeated by an aggressive North-Atlantic alliance that could not imagine their world inhabited by a free regime of Africans as representatives of the newly emerging democracy.’

The University of the West Indies is in the process of conceiving how best to deliver a major conference on the theme ‘Rethinking and rebuilding Haiti’.

I am very keen to provide an input into this exercise because for too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian nation-building project, launched on 1 January 1804, has failed on account of mismanagement, ineptitude, corruption.

Buried beneath the rubble of imperial propaganda, out of both Western Europe and the United States, is the evidence which shows that Haiti's independence was defeated by an aggressive North-Atlantic alliance that could not imagine their world inhabited by a free regime of Africans as representatives of the newly emerging democracy.

The evidence is striking, especially in the context of France.

Human Organs Are Being Trafficked In Aftermath Of Quake

Cameroon in Solidarity with Haiti

 

The Minister of Communication in a press briefing last Friday clarified public opinion on Cameroonians in Haiti. 

The Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, during a press briefing in Yaounde last Friday made an exact appraisal of the situation of Cameroonians on official missions in Haiti after the 12 January earthquake that occurred some 16 kilometres from the capital city, Port Prince, killing over 100,000 people with huge material damage. The Minister told pressmen that after the Head of State’s message of solidarity, condolence and compassion to his Haitian counterpart, President Biya is preparing to give the Haitians the necessary assistance that will help revamp their economy and other needs.

France bridles at US Haiti Take-over

It did not take long for France to start quarrelling with the United States over Haiti. The American take-over of the relief operation has not gone down well with Paris. Media cover over the past two days has depicted a virtual American invasion, with heavy-handed military pushing around French agencies. The words domination and even occupation were used on radio news reports this morning. 

Alain Joyandet, the Minister supervising the French operation, said that he had requested a formal protest to Washington after US controllers refused landing permission to a French Airbus with a field hospital on Saturday. The role of the US needs to be clarified, Joyandet said on Europe1 radio this morning. "It's a matter of helping Haiti, not occupying Haiti." [watch interview here]