{"id":12385,"date":"2017-10-23T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=12385"},"modified":"2020-02-14T15:26:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T15:26:44","slug":"interview-nkongho-felix-agbor-balla-edward-paice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/interview-nkongho-felix-agbor-balla-edward-paice\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Nkongho Felix Agbor Balla by Edward Paice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nkongho Felix Agbor Balla is a barrister, founder and executive director of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca-csc.org\/felix-nkongho-agbor-balla.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">president<\/a> of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium (CACSC). In January 2017, he and Fontem Aforteka\u2019a Neba, secretary general of CACSC were arrested and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icj.org\/cameroon-end-arbitrary-detention-of-felix-agbor-balla-and-dr-fontem-afortekaa-neba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">imprisoned<\/a>. They were detained until the end of August, when a presidential decree ordered the Military Tribunal of Yaound\u00e9 to drop all charges. Other civil society leaders remain in detention. Listen to Africa Research Institute Director Edward Paice interview Felix on 23 October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiomack.com\/embed4-large\/africaresearch\/interview-with-felix-nkongho\" width=\"100%\" height=\"252\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/news\/2017\/10\/04\/cameroon-s-descent-crisis-long-history-anglophone-discord\">Cameroon\u2019s descent into crisis: the long history of anglophone discord<\/a>\u201d (IRIN, 4 October 2017)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1097892\/cameroons-anglophone-crisis-is-danger-of-becoming-a-full-blown-conflict\/\">Cameroon\u2019s Anglophone crisis isn\u2019t about language, but economic deprivation<\/a>\u201d (Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Quartz Africa, 9 October 2017)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/central-africa\/cameroon\/130-cameroon-worsening-anglophone-crisis-calls-strong-measures\">Cameroon: A Worsening Anglophone Crisis Calls for Strong Measures<\/a>\u201d (Crisis Group Africa Briefing No. 130, 19 October 2017)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accord.org.za\/conflict-trends\/anglophone-dilemma-cameroon\/\">The Anglophone Dilemma in Cameroon<\/a>\u201d (Ateki Seta Caxton, ACCORD Conflict Trends, Issue 2, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/central-africa\/cameroon\/250-cameroons-anglophone-crisis-crossroads\">Cameroon\u2019s Anglophone Crisis at the Crossroads<\/a>\u201d (Crisis Group Africa Report No. 250, 2 August 2017)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0ecbf20a-13aa-11e7-b0c1-37e417ee6c76\">Cameroon and the tumultuous autumn of an African patriarch<\/a>\u201d (FT View, 28 March 2017)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to Africa Research Institute Director Edward Paice interview Nkongho Felix Agbor Balla on the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2908,2775,516,2911,2769,2909,2910,738],"class_list":["post-12385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-anglophone","tag-biya","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-anglophone-civil-society-consortium","tag-cameroun","tag-independence","tag-language","tag-protest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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