The previously confident guardians of Paul Biya's presidency are looking concerned as they absorb the impact of the defection of two previously dependable even crucial allies – Bello Bouba Maïgari and Issa Tchiroma Bakary...
Some of his RDPC supporters in the north are turning in protest to the rival Union nationale pour la démocratie et le progrès of Bello Bouba Maïgari...
He persuaded the leader of the opposition Union nationale pour la démocratie et le progrès Bello Bouba Maïgari to join his government in 1997 (AC Vol 43 No 17 President people parties)...
Bello Bouba Maïgari 54 leader of the opposition Union nationale pour la démocratie et le progrès (UNDP) joined the government in 1997 and is Transport Minister...
Vol 50 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
A new decentralisation programme devolving power to regional councils might offer a political safety valve if the opposition Social Democratic Front takes over the councils in South-West and North-West provinces and Bello Bouba Maïgari’s Union Nationale pour la Démocratie et le Progrès does well in the north...
Bello Bouba Maigari still leads the Union National Pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Fru Ndi still leads the SDF and Adamu Ndam Njoya still leads the Union Démocratique du Cameroun...
After a failed coup d'état in 1984 Bello Bouba Maïgari then Prime Minister and probable presidential successor was fired and the post scrapped...
The Union Démocratique du Cameroun led by Adamu Ndam Njoya picked up four seats Bello Bouba Maïgari's Union Nationale pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (UNDP) went up to four seats from one last time and Jean-Jacques Ekindi’s Mouvement Progressiste got one...
In the north traditionally loyal to Biya a schism has emerged in the Union Nationale pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (UNDP) part of the ruling coalition between the powerful northern baron Bello Bouba Maïgari and the party's Vice-President Célestin Bedzigui who has joined the CRRN...
The document was the work of a group of former ministers: Antar Gassagay of the Union pour la République (once Secretary of State for Territorial Administration) Issa Tchiroma Bakary of Bello Bouba Maïgari's Union Nationale pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (Transport) Hamadou Moustapha of the Alliance Démocratique pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (Town Planning and Housing) Garga Haman Adji of the Alliance pour la Démocratie et le Développement (Civil Service) and Dakolé Daïssala of the Mouvement des Républicains (Posts and Telecommunications)...