SDF Europe will be organizing a virtual conference on May 26, 2024 on the theme "How to capitalize on the experiences acquired since 1990 to achieve Change in 2025 in Cameroon?". This is in the context of the celebration of the 34th anniversary of the SDF.

The speakers will be: Dr. Louis-Marie KAKDEU (1st Vice-President of the SDF), Prof. Thierry Amougou (Economist at UCL), Mr. Alexis Kamewe (President SDF Europe) and Mr. Napi Tapignidoung (SDF North America). The event will be moderated by Roufaou Oumarou (Minister in the SDF Shadow Cabinet in charge of Technology).

SDF Chairman John Fru Ndi passed away last night in Yaoundé after battling against illness. The 1st Vice-President of the SDF, Josua Osih, made the terrible announcement this morning in the following official statement:

An investor pool led among others by the NSIF and the SNH expressed in November 2022 its interest in acquiring the shares of the British Actis fund in Energy of Cameroon (ENEO). If the operation is concluded successfully, then this will consecrate the renationalization of electricity distribution in Cameroon. From a prudent point , this sounds like a relief for consumers who are wondering what the added value of the privatization of the defunct SONEL would have been. But in essence, this rather raises a lot of questions with regard to the political and economic realities of the country. Are the change in the ownership structure and / or nationalization the solution to the problems of energy production and distribution in Cameroon? Is the state a good partner and a good customer?

The United Nations, through the UNESCO agency, has decided to place the celebration of the 30th anniversary of "World Press Freedom Day" on May 3, 2023 under the theme, and I quote: "Shaping a future of rights: freedom of expression as the engine of all other human rights". The analysis of this theme shows us that, firstly, freedom of expression is the basis, better still, "the mother" of all human rights, and secondly, that all human rights are constantly violated all over the world every third, second or minute that passes.

Many journalists and other media professionals are threatened, harassed, abducted, tortured, subjected to pressure of all kinds, and even more, murdered around the world while they were simply doing their job. Many are also arrested and even languish in prisons, some without trial.