Yesterday morning in Bamenda, the Bible belt, all sorts of people left their homes to go to church, including Dorothy's daughter.  As they were walking along the police came and chased them back home.  They were told they were under a 48 hour quarantine and not to leave their houses again.

Yesterday in Dchang, Francis' village, they burned houses to the ground.  It was the opposition party.  People ran away from the village and now it is empty.  This is a French village.  This is the first the war has spilled into the French sector.

Today the Police were not permitting English speakers to leave their houses here in some parts of Yaounde.  But somehow today, the opposition party was able to leave their houses and march through the streets of villages and town all throughout the NW and SW Regions.  They sang songs and planted signboards announcing the first anniversary of their independence from Cameroon.

It's a delicate time.  We went shopping today and now plan to lay low until after the election results come out.