By Noela Ebob Bisong
The United Nations Security Council’s Meeting on Cameroon holds today, Monday May 13 2019.
The four countries organizing the meeting on Cameroon include Dominican Republic, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Panellists during the meeting includes the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock, Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland, and Esther Omam Njomo, the Executive Director of Reach Out Cameroon, a local not-for-profit organization focused on the well-being of underprivileged groups in Cameroon, such as women and children.
Also, in the course of the meeting, Council members will be invited to speak, and other member states, permanent observers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may equally attend and may be requested to speak, The Sun has learnt.
The main objective of UN Security Council Meeting on Cameroon is said to raise awareness of the worsening humanitarian situation ongoing in the country and to consider practical steps to be taken for an effective humanitarian response, including with regard to the protection of civilians, particularly of the most vulnerable populations, and respect for international humanitarian law.
The UN Security Council’s meeting on Cameroon has caused a lot of frenzy within and out of the country, as many see it as a major step to resolving the ailing situation of Cameroonians in the North West and South West regions of the country, following the deadlock resulting from the Anglophone crisis.
However, others have been quick to deny the news of the council holding a meeting with focus on Cameroon, maintaining that there is no such agenda, pertaining to the official programme of the UN Security Council’s activities for the week. Information circulating had also announced that the said meeting earlier previewed, had been cancelled, but the reasons were not made known.
Nonetheless, some have been quick to conclude that it is as a result of the UN Security Council’s meeting on Cameroon, that has caused some level of panic in Yaounde, resulting to the ongoing visits of the Prime Minister and Head of Government Joseph Dion Ngute with a message of peace and hope to the populations of the two restive regions of Cameroon.