(Business in Cameroon) - Addressing the international community during the 38^th general conference of UNESCO, the Cameroonian Head of State, Paul Biya, called world leaders once again to mobilise and pool efforts to fight against terrorism, which is threatening more and more world peace. “My own country, haven of stability, is today experiencing this suffering. It has been subjected for some years now to terrorist attacks from Boko Haram. This sect leaves in its wake death and desolation in family, is responsible for populations being displaced and an influx of refugees. It disrupts the economic and social life of the Extreme-Nord region of my country”, President Biya declared.

Even worse, the Cameroonian Head of State stressed, “this complex web, through its intolerance, is spreading the seeds of division based on ethnic and religious considerations. It thus affects the very foundations of our country: its unity. The fight to eradicate this sect is forcing us to reroute important resources to our defence, to the detriment of the improvement of living conditions of Cameroonians. Pooling our resources with our neighbours, setting up a mixed multinational force of the African Union, and the support of friendly powers such as France make me think that we will soon overcome this barbaric enemy”.

Despite this optimism, President Biya implicitly called for caution. Because, as he noted, “no country is safe from terrorist attacks”, and “what just happened in Paris, in the evening of 13 November, is particularly significant”. In short, for Paul Biya, “the fight against terrorism is the fight of every nation who puts the respect of human beings and their lives at the forefront of their values. This fight is the responsibility of every nation. Every nation must contribute towards this”.