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Martial Gnoukapasi Participants and trainers in a group photograph Since the now termed "Anglophone Crisis" plaguing the two english speaking regions of Cameroon for six years and counting turned bloody in 2017, more and more persons with disabilities have emerged with a majority of them still finding it difficult to survive the political atmosphere. It's now very common to come across persons who've permanently lost their sights, limbs or legs and other body parts to  bullets in these regions. Disturbing short and lengthy video clips on several instances have made rounds on social media with footages showing  how people are being rendered disabled for being " blacklegs " or for going against laid down rules enforced by belligerents of the armed conflict.  Fingers  and toes have been chopped off. In some hospitals in and out of the embattled regions, it's also common to find people who as a result of the shock of loosing love ones or after cheating death...

By Martial Gnoukapasir ngong peter addressing the concerns of pwd at City council consultation meeting The call was made by Ngong Peter of the Coordinating Unit of Persons With Disabilities(PWD), during a public consultation meeting organized by the council Wednesday 19th at the Parcours Vita Hall, to get the aspirations of city dwellers as the council begin executing the 2022 budget.  Chaired by the city mayor Achobong Paul, Ngong Peter, a visually impaired narrated to the audience how he suffered when the decision prohibiting the circulation of bikes within some major itineraries of the city made movement and life very difficult for him and other person's living with disabilities. He said though the decision was imperative for security reasons, the council would've and in future,  make exceptions in favour of pwd's, considering that visually impaired like him and others use motorbikes as their primary source of transportation, as it picks and drops them from and to non m...