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[HistoireDuCameroun🇨🇲 @mbeatowe]

Cheikh Anta Diop en 1983: « Le colonialisme nous a amené à douter de nous-mêmes.»
#CheikAntaDiop

[Russian Embassy in Kenya/Посольство России в Кении @russembkenya]

❗️UNGA Adopts Ghana's Resolution labeling slave trade as gravest crime against humanity

A long overdue recognition.

The transatlantic slave trade devastated #Africa and shaped centuries of inequality

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

The transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity that struck at the core of personhood, broke up families & devastated communities.

Let us reject the false narrative of racial difference & fully commit to human rights, equality & the inherent worth of every person.

[Nora @Heal_within96]

This result tells us three things my dear Africans;

1) We are all on our own.

2) Every European nation that systematically benefited from slavery abstained.

3) Oman abstained because they were leading the Arab slave trade (18 million lives lost).

[African Union Mission to the UN @AfricanUnionUN]

Today, the @UN General Assembly has adopted a landmark Resolution : A/80/L.48 entitled “Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity.” This Resolution marks a significant milestone in global discussions about historical injustices and human rights.

The landslide vote is as follows:
➡️ 123 in favor of the Resolution,
➡️ 52 Abstentions and
➡️ 03 Against.

Tabled by the #AfricanGroupUN and championed by Ghana 🇬🇭, this landmark Declaration affirms that the transatlantic slave trade and racialised chattel enslavement were crimes against humanity whose consequences endure to this day.

Addressing the General Assembly, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana 🇬🇭 , called on the world to stand on the right side of history and today, the world answered.

This is a victory for Africa. For our ancestors. For the millions who suffered, and for the generations who carry this forward.

The Decade of Action on Reparations has begun.

#Agenda2063 #TheAfricaWeWant #ReparatoryJustice #UN80

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

The UN General Assembly has voted to recognise slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity".

The proposal by Ghana was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina.
https://t.co/V3FSC2OwfL

[L'UE au Cameroun et pour la Guinée équatoriale @UEauCameroun]

The Delegation of the European Union to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea reacts to the death in custody of politician Anicet Georges EKANE...

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

WTF! Trump has just ordered the Government to Incinerate 500 tons of food instead of giving it to children! That is our tax money being wasted! 😡😡😡

[Rebecca Enonchong @africatechie]

Camtel owes 412 Billion CFA to China and doesn’t have a loan agreement.

And Huawei manages the equipment directly, holds all the access codes, is in charge of the maintenance, and charges what it wants since there is no contract.

But we don’t want Starlink because we want to « protect our sovereignty ».

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨⚠️ BREAKING! Alexander Isak releases statement: “When promises are broken and trust is lost, the relationship can't continue”.

“I'm proud to be recognised by my fellow professionals with a place in the PFA Premier League Team of the Season for 2024/25.

First and foremost I want to thank my teammates and everyone at Newcastle United who has supported me along the way.

I'm not at the ceremony tonight. With everything going on, it didn't feel right to be there.

I've kept quiet for a long time while others have spoken. That silence has allowed people to push their own version of events, even though they know it doesn't reflect what was really said and agreed behind closed doors.

The reality is that promises were made and the club has known my position for a long time. To now act as if these issues are only emerging is misleading.

When promises are broken and trust is lost, the relationship can't continue. That's where things are for me right now – and why change is in the best interests of everyone, not just myself”.

[Dr Paul CHIY, FCIArb @DrPaulCHIY]

The Battle for Legal Identity: Cameroon’s Notarial Crisis and the Common Law Defenders
By Paul Chiy, LLB, LLM, PhD
July 2025

“The soul of a legal tradition is not in its statutes, but in the people who breathe life into its practice.”
— Anonymous Common Law Advocate, Buea, 2025

I. Introduction: A Legal Earthquake Disguised as Reform
On 16 July 2025, Presidential Decree No. 2025/316 entered Cameroon’s legal ecosystem with the force of seismic disruption. Ostensibly a procedural framework for regulating notarial appointments, its deeper implications have stunned the Anglophone legal community.

To Common Law practitioners in the North West and South West, the decree is not a technical adjustment—it is a political incursion cloaked in bureaucratic language. It does not unify; it dismembers. It does not harmonise; it homogenises. And in doing so, it lays siege to the historical identity of a people who have long regarded the law not as an instrument of control, but as a vessel of dignity.

II. A Nation’s Legal Dualism: Promise and Peril

Cameroon’s bijural architecture is no historical accident. Born of divergent colonial regimes—British in the West, French in the East—it embodies the legal philosophy of two global systems. The Reunification of 1961 was not a legal fusion, but a cohabitation agreement. The 1996 Constitution’s Article 68 enshrines this delicate pact, preserving the validity of laws inherited by the Anglophone regions.

The lawyers of the Common Law tradition are not relics; they are guardians of that pact. Their practices in probate, conveyancing, and notarization are not anomalies—they are constitutional certainties. The decree’s attempt to nullify this legacy by fiat is an affront not merely to lawyers, but to the legal history of the Republic itself.

III. The Lawyer-Notary: A Common Law Heritage

Anglophone lawyers have, since the Southern Cameroons High Court Law of 1955, acted both as advocates and notaries. This dual role mirrors the practical needs of a legal culture grounded in proximity to clients and community service. Lawyers drafted wills, authenticated deeds, witnessed signatures, and officiated oaths—not by license, but by tradition.

Presidential Decree 2025/316 seeks to end this by:
Denying advocates the right to serve as notaries
Creating a unitary notarial profession trained only at ENAM
Eradicating legal pluralism in notarial functions
Redefining public confidence in terms of state appointment, not professional experience

Such measures do not modernise the law. They centralize power, dismantle local autonomy, and degrade the lived constitutionalism that Anglophone lawyers personify.

IV. Constitutional Betrayal in Legal Garb

The legal resistance to the decree is founded not on sentiment, but on law. The Pre-Litigation Complaint filed under Law No. 2006/022 accuses the decree of:

1. Violating Article 68 by overriding pre-1996 laws without parliamentary repeal
2. Ignoring Law No. 2019/24, which mandates regional consultation before legal reforms in special status areas
3. Breaching Article 26, which reserves the regulation of legal professions to Parliament, not presidential fiat

These aren’t legalistic quibbles. They are a defence of legal order—the very order the decree purports to uphold.

V. 2016 Revisited: History Echoes in Protest

The lawyers remember 2016. They remember the black robes dragged in the mud, the tear gas in court precincts, the erasure of Common Law in the appointment of Francophone judges to Anglophone jurisdictions. That protest, born in dignity, spiralled into a national crisis. And once again, a decree threatens to repeat that sequence.

The 2016 promises of reform—dialogue commissions, symbolic visits, and unkept pledges—have taught Anglophone lawyers a brutal truth: unless the law is fought for, it is forfeited.

VI. WhatsApp, War Rooms, and Words as Weapons

Where courtrooms are silent, WhatsApp groups roar. Legal treatises, fiery audio notes, and solidarity memes now form the frontlines of a digital resistance. The decree has awakened a profession that sees in its repeal not just legal victory, but cultural survival.

Even as suspicions emerge—about collaborators, about silent applicants to ENAM—the prevailing sentiment is unity. Not merely in strategy, but in soul.

VII. Comparative Wisdom: The Global Common Law Perspective

In every jurisdiction where the Common Law breathes—England, Nigeria, India, South Africa—lawyers are notarial agents. Their legal training, their ethical commitments, their public trust qualify them as authenticators of deeds. Cameroon, alone, proposes to decouple the lawyer from the notary by law.

This is not harmonization. It is erasure.

VIII. Politics, Power, and Pre-Election Optics

In an election year, timing is everything. For many, the decree reads like a dog whistle—a show of dominance over a marginalised demographic. Interior Minister Atanga Nji’s threats to “crush” opposition have only amplified fears that the law is once again weaponised as policy.

The question posed in Anglophone circles is increasingly blunt: How can a people vote for unity when their very identity is treated as illegitimate?

IX. The Bar’s Defiance: Legal Resistance as Civil Courage

On My Media Prime, bar elders, junior counsel, and community lawyers have spoken with one voice: the decree is ultra vires, unconstitutional, and unjust. They argue:

1. That the Bar Association cannot be bound by an instrument it was never consulted on

2. That the decree disenfranchises entire communities who rely on local lawyer-notaries

That no administrative efficiency justifies cultural obliteration

Their message is legally reasoned, politically grounded, and morally unyielding.

X. Toward a Just Resolution: Legal Pluralism or Legal Domination?

A path forward exists, but only if dialogue replaces decree. Legal experts propose:

1. Dual-track notarial training: One rooted in Common Law, one in Civil Law
2. Permanent recognition of existing lawyer-notaries
3. Reinstatement of Article 11 safeguards under the Special Status Law
4. Bipartisan dialogue between the Bar and Ministry of Justice

Reform cannot mean subjugation. The survival of bijuralism depends not on abstraction, but on institutional courage.

XI. Conclusion: In Defence of a Dying Light

The crisis of 2025 is not simply about notarial practice. It is about whether Cameroon is still a country of constitutional fidelity, or merely of executive convenience. The decree attempts to write a future without consulting the past. But Anglophone lawyers are not relics to be retired. They are custodians of a promise—a legal identity grounded in duty, legitimacy, and law.

Let the record show: they did not go quietly.
Let the Constitution remember: they fought with law, not arms.
Let history declare: this was not dissent, but defence.

By Paul Chiy, LLB, LLM, PhD
Barrister & Advocate
Defender of the Common Law Tradition

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!

When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.

Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.

[Dibussi Tande @dibussi]

Cameroon: A bloody decolonization long kept in silence.
Between 1955 & 1971, a brutal guerrilla war pitted the UPC against French forces & their local allies. Here is its history, caught between suppressed memory and historical truth.
https://t.co/4eIrPLE7PI via @Nofi Media

[António Costa @eucopresident]

To President @realdonaldtrump.

Playing for peace. As a team.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If this continues, America goes de facto bankrupt and all tax revenue will go to paying interest on the national debt with nothing left for anything else.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🚨💣 EXCLUSIVE: Florian Wirtz to Liverpool, HERE WE GO!

Liverpool verbally agree deal in principle with Bayer Leverkusen for package reaching €150m add-ons included.

Player side already agreed two weeks ago with move now imminent.

Wirtz set for medical and contract signing.

[Coco Gauff @CocoGauff]

wow.
this means so much to me truly….french open champion🥹
i worked so hard for this moment and for it to have happened is insane. thank you God ❤️ and thank you everyone. this means the world…. I ‘m still in shock honestly can’t find the words but all I can say for now is just thank you and never give up on your dreams🫶🏾

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo XIV appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to greet the faithful for the first time as the 267th Pope.

[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

Comunicado oficial: Mbappé.
#RealMadrid