SDF planned march provokes ‘state of emergency’ in Douala

BY SIMON NDIVE KALLA Eight months after a planned SDF march in Douala was aborted due to a government ban, Cameroon’s leading opposition party suffered a similar faith last Saturday, October 21. The Deido neighborhood and most other major arteries of the city were in a total lockdown as government deployed troops with heavy military armada to block the SDF regional executive and militants from even stepping out of their houses to carry on with the peace march. The march, according to the Littoral regional chairman of SDF, Hon. Jean Michel Nintcheu, was to sensitise SDF militants and Cameroonians at…