(Business in Cameroon) - In August, the Cameroonian army will send a new contingent of 750 elements to the Central African Republic, we learn officially. This troop deployment is within the framework of the United Nations Integrated Multidimensional Stabilisation Mission in Central Africa (MINUSCA), formerly under the command of the Cameroonian Brigadier General Martin Tumenta Chomu, who died in an American hospital on the night of Sunday 29 to Monday 30 November 2015.

The 3rd Cameroonian MINUSCA contingent will take off with good news : the increase, of almost 100%, in the monthly allowance paid to each member. The news has just been announced by the Minister of Defense (Mindef) Joseph Beti Assomo, who specified that this order from the Cameroonian Head of State, is retroactive, and applies equally to the members of the first two contingents. Joseph Beti Assomo also announced that participation of Cameroonian military in MINUSCA will henceforth be on the basis of individual contracts, in which the rights and obligations of the members of the contingent will be specified. It is a matter from now of avoiding all misunderstanding, clarified Mindef.

Indeed, on 9 September 2015, elements of the second contingent organised a demonstration through the main streets of the Cameroonian capital, to demand payment of their allowances. Referring to this unfortunate episode, the Minister Beti Assomo has just revealed "that whether it concerned a past movement or those that could happen in the future, sanctions will be taken with full rigour and military regulations".

BRM