Actualités of Friday, 22 August 2014

Source: La Nouvelle Expression

Chinese community pray for safe return of their abducted nationals

Three months after the attack on Waza in the far - northern Cameroon negotiations stalled. The Chinese community in Cameroon is very worried as well as people doing trade in the economic capital of Cameroon.

Since abduction of ten of their compatriots in the North on May 17, 2014, several of them barely sleep.

What nauseates these nationals of China who are pleading with the Cameroonian Government to do everything possible so that their fellow citizens are released, silence still reigns around this case.

Neither the abductors who kidnapped, nor the Cameroonian authorities committed to the fight against the armed gang which is raging in the North and the border more precisely between Cameroon and Nigeria, leaves filter the slightest hope.

The fact that no corpse of these Chinese has been found, and above all the fact that they have never declared them dead, it reassures the Chinese community based in Douala. "We pray every day so it that they do not kill them and asked God to protect them," said Xiang, shop owner at the Douala Central market.

Xiu Young, remains confident about the outcome of this drama. He hoped that his kidnapped countrymen will be released as the family of French origin abducted almost in the same area by gangs acting in the same way several months ago.

According to reports, the silence of the Government of Cameroon is not synonymous with abandonment or neglect. In partnership with the Ambassador of China in Cameroon and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of this country, talks with the rebels at the origin of the attack have been incurred and continue their normal course, indicates a well introduced source.

According to other safe sources, the en Chinese would be alive and be well. "At the moment, negotiations are continuing", we learn. It should be noted in passing that no claim was made by the kidnappers after the attack, still less a ransom request, reveal the same sources.