Jeune Afrique accuses Paul Biya of lying

The Pan African weekly speaks of "bluff" of Yaoundé and argues that it is not an operation of Cameroonian security forces that led to the release of the 27 hostages held by the rebels of the Democratic Front of the Central African People.

This accusation was made by Jeune Afrique Magazine. In its edition on newsstands in Cameroon on Monday, December 1, 2014, the Pan-African weekly contests the version of the story given by the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, on the release of hostages by the Democratic Front of the Central African People (FDPC) .

The editorial director, François Sudan, in an article published and entitled "Cameroon, below a liberation" speaks of a "small bluff of Cameroonian presidency."

According to him, the "special operation forces of defense and security" described in the press release issued November 26, 2014 never existed.

"In reality, the hostages were handed over voluntarily at Central Africa-Cameroon border by their captors (rebels of Miskine warlord), with no shot being fired," says the boss of JA journalists.

The Parisian newspaper added that the negotiations were conducted by telephone and on the instruction of President Denis Sassou Nguesso to Mekassoua Karim in Yaoundé, a former Central African Minister.

According to Jeune Afrique, "it is Mekassoua's rebels who got the hostages released before their leader, Abdoulaye Miskine held in Yaoundé prison, was released later.

The weekly's Bechir Ben Yahmed finds a "little adjustment with the truth" to enable Cameroon to save face in a folder where Denis Sassou Nguesso seemed "to be pulling the blanket towards him."