Webremixed Articles for tags: cameroon

New Korean Ambassador at SOPECAM

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:25:04 GMT

H.E. Hosung Lee says he would communicate more to publicize his country. Barely two months after taking up residence in Cameroon following the reopening of their Embassy in Yaounde, the new South Korean Ambassador, Hosung Lee, was at the Cameroon News and Publishing Corporation, SOPECAM, yesterday for a courtesy visit.

Good Results Have A Price

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:24:53 GMT

Last Monday, the Minister of State Property and Land Tenure made a spectacular outing in Yaounde. In several government residential areas, he personally oversaw the eviction of some individuals illegally occupying government quarters. This outing could pass for routine government work.

UB Under Infrastructural Expansion

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:24:52 GMT

Gradually, but surely, the place to be is satisfying the aspirations of students and lecturers. In a press release the 20th meeting of Council of the University of Buea announced their approval of the Faculty of Engineering and a college of Technology last 3 October.

New Ambassador of C�te d'Ivoire at Star Building

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:24:48 GMT

Ambassador Biti Allou Wanyou paid a courtesy visit to Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni. Cameroon's Prime Minister, Ephraim Inoni yesterday, 2 December received in audience the new Ambassador of Cote d'Ivoire to Cameroon Biti Allou Wanyou.

Cameroon's rich and powerful

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:53:40 GMT

Cameroonian blogger Le blog du PrA©si... lists Cameroon's rich and powerful.

Yaounde Under Grip of Awful Deaths

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:00:56 GMT

Four cases of mysterious deaths have been reported since last Friday November 28, 2008. Yaounde inhabitants have their hearts in their hands as many cannot stand the increasing number of mysterious deaths in the different neighbourhoods. To find a death body lying just anywhere is common site.

Nigeria: Bakassi - Country Embarks on Aggressive Boundary Demarcation Exercise

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:25:47 GMT

To avoid future agonies and traumatic experience of the ceding of the oil rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroun Republic, the Federal Government has embarked on aggressive boundary demarcation exercise in order to ensure that her boundaries between other African countries are properly demarcated.

Cameroon Parliament: CPDM MP Resigns as Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:50:57 GMT

But his resignation will only take effect as from the next session of the National Assembly in March 2009, during which period a new bureau of the House and committee chairpersons are elected.

PM Inoni Explains - Measures to Curb Exodus of Intellectuals

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:07:50 GMT

Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni on 28 November during a question time plenary sitting at the National Assembly, acknowledged that the government was aware of the exodus of Cameroonian intellectuals, technicians and medical officials to work in foreign countries. He said the exodus as well as Cameroonians trained abroad with public resources who do not come back to the country, drain the useful capital that could have been used in developing the country.

Salutary Measure - Its implementation will assure a brighter feature.

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:04:41 GMT

Cameroon is a very big sports nation. Thanks to football, the green, red and yellow flag has been able to fly high in the four-corners of the World. For the past decades, names like Roger Milla, Thomas Nkono, Mboma Patrick, Samuel Eto'o and most recently Fran�ois Mbango just to name a few, have been selling like hot-cakes in most international sports arenas.

Tsinga Trade Fair - New Vision, Timid Take off

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:04:39 GMT

One week after the official launching of the annual trade fair, many stands remain unoccupied.The hustle and bustle that usually characterise the Tsinga annual Trade fair is yet to come. One week after the official commencement of the fair, the fair ground remains almost deserted and to say the least, "miserable". Many stands are still to be occupied.

ICRAF Sensitises Staff on HIV/AIDS

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:04:33 GMT

A one-day seminar was organised in prelude to the World AIDS Day which will be commemorated today.The campus of the University of Dschang Cresa F�ret annex bois at Nkolbisson in the outskirts of Yaounde was the venue of a one-day seminar on the HIV/AIDS.

National assembly: reforms in a number of ministries

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:42:49 GMT

The Minister of External Relations, Henry Eyebe Ayissi and the Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals, Amadou Ali took their turn yesterday.

Cameroon: 510,000 Infected By HIV/Aids

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:18 GMT

Some 510.000 Cameroonians are infected with the HIV/AIDS virus, the Minister of Public Health, announced recently. Amongst those infected persons, according to the Minister, only 55.000 have been duly registered in government hospitals and are being taken care of by the state.

Zimbabwe: Letter to Mugabe

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:16 GMT

Dear Bob, I should have written this letter earlier, but thank God it waited. And when I set out to jot it, it was not to please you or anybody.We made every effort, don't ask who we are, to argue in your favour; to defend your stand.

Rotary Clubs Launch Water Projects in NW

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:14 GMT

A delegation of Rotary Club of Gwelph and Wiarton and other rotary clubs of Ontario, Canada, including Rotary Club of Bafoussam, Tuesday, November 25, launched the construction of water points to benefit over 30 villages in the Northwest Region.

Cameroon: Internet Scammer Nabbed!

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:12 GMT

The brazen adventures of a supposed Mutengene-based scammer, whose name The Post got as Roland Obi Ayuk, came to an end Saturday, November 22, when he fell into the hands of the Buea Judicial Police.

Cameroon: Investigators Deadlocked in Forjindam Embezzlement Case

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:11 GMT

Investigation in the case of alleged embezzlement against the former General Manager of the Cameroon Shipyard and Industrial Engineering Ltd, CNIC, Zaccheus Forjindam, is once more deadlocked.

Cameroon: SDF Women Want Party to Respect 25 Percent Quota

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:09 GMT

Women of the Social Democratic Front, SDF, have requested the party hierarchy to respect the 25 percent quota women representation in councils and parliament during future elections.

Stakeholders Pessimistic of Rumpi's Success

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:07 GMT

Various stakeholders of the Rumpi Development Project have expressed fears that the project might not attain its objectives by the end of its six-year period.In spite of these fears, the stakeholders, who met in Limbe recently, also expressed optimism that much could be done within the two remaining years to catch up with the bulk of the uncompleted work of the project.

Cameroon: Anne Marie Ndzie Challenges Artists to Be Responsible

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:06 GMT

Seventy eight-year-old Cameroonian musical legend, Anne Marie Ndzie, has called on Cameroonian artists to adopt positive attitudes in the composition and presentation of their artistic works.

Cameroon: UNDP Donates to Human Rights Commission

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:04 GMT

The National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms, NCHRF, has received a 19-seater mini-bus from the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP.The gift comes as support for the commission to accomplish its sensitisation campaigns.

Cameroon: Dear Ngwa

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:03 GMT

After all the hullabaloo and popping of Champagne for the Methuselah reign of your Royal King, what else can your people offer? We can only go back to our ventilated huts and lick our intestines in quietness. The grapes of this country have become so sour that no amount of pretence or decoration can make them good again.

Wum Water Project Re-Launched

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:00 GMT

Over 52,000 inhabitants of Wum Sub-division, Menchum Division, Northwest Region, joined Rotary Club International to re-launch the Wum Water Project.The occasion took place November 17, in Wum Central.

Cameroon: Bandits Take Bamenda Hostage

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:10:56 GMT

"We are informing inhabitants of Bamenda Town from Upstation, Government Residential Area, GRA, to downtown that if you must be out of your residence after 10 pm, be in possession of a phone and FCFA 10,000 or more; and if you are a woman put on a gown or "kaba" without underpants.

Cameroon: Farmers to Be Incorporated in Social Security Scheme

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:10:54 GMT

Labour and Social Security Minister, Prof. Robert Nkili, has disclosed that the reformulation of the Cameroon social security scheme would include farmers. He made the disclosure in Yaounde recently after his meeting with the committee in charge of the modernisation of Cameroon's social security.

Cameroon: Health School Director Fired

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:10:53 GMT

The Director of the Training School for Health Personnel, TSHP, Limbe, Catherine Arrey Takor, has been fired after a protracted row with students over the payment of fees into her private bank account.

Cameroon: Councillors Probe Former Mayor

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:10:51 GMT

Councillors of Nguti Council have begun investigating the alleged misappropriation of council funds by the former Mayor, Along Mbome.A five-man commission of inquiry was mandated on May 28, 2008 to investigate the incomplete repairs of their council building.

Cameroon: Before the Nowefu Cookie Crumbles

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:10:48 GMT

Next Saturday, November 29, the long awaited Northwest Fons Union, NOWEFU, General Assembly will take place.The meeting will take place against a back drop of the Chafah/ Ntumfor standoff - a three-month long controversy that has metaphorically torn the Union to shreds.

Nigeria: Bakassi - Senator Accuses Committees of Delaying Resolution

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:55:50 GMT

Senator Bassey Ewa-Henshaw (PDP, Cross River South) has petitioned the three Senate Committees mandated to investigate the circumstances under which the Bakassi peninsula was ceded to Cameroon over their inability to submit a report nearly one year after they were given the assignment.

Nigeria: Bakassi - Senate Committees Petitioned

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:49:08 GMT

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Water Resources, Senator Bassey Ewa-Henshaw (Cross River South Senatorial District)" has sent a petition to the chairmen of the three committees mandated by the Senate about a year ago to investigate the Green Treaty Agreement (GTA) that ceded the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon.

Cameroon: Using Micro-Finance To Foster Development

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:23:17 GMT

CAMEROON: Food price hikes mean hungrier, angrier prisoners

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:22:34 GMT

Food price hikes that sparked deadly riots in Cameroon earlier this year have severely cut meals for prisoners, and officials fear a revolt.

Cameroon: Would-Be Ghanaian Migrants Detained Without Lawyers

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:54:04 GMT

Some 10 Ghanaian immigrants who were arrested November 21 at the Rehabilitation Centre in Douala are being detained at the New Bell Prison.Elements of the 9th Police District carried out the arrests, maintaining that they were executing "an order from above".

Cameroon: CPDM MPs Accuse PM of Marginalising NW Region

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:54:03 GMT

The nine CPDM MPs from the Northwest Region have accused the Prime Minister, Chief Ephraim Inoni, of hatching a conspiracy to kill the CPDM party in their Region.The MPs raised the alarm at a secret meeting held at the Unity Palace on November 19.

Cameroon: Governor Wants Wayward Contractors Sanctioned

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:54:02 GMT

The Governor of the East Region, L�l� Lafrique Adolph, has exhorted the East Regional representative of the National Order of Civil Engineers, known by its French acronym, ONIGC, Ayissi Nicaise, to bring errant contractors to order.

Cameroon: Race for Nowefu Top Positions Intensifies

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:54:00 GMT

The race for top positions in the Northwest Fons' Union, NOWEFU, is intensifying each passing day, with the posts of President and Secretary General being the most coveted.There are, so far, two candidates for the post of President General; the Fon of Bafmen and the Fon of Aghem.

Uganda/Cameroon: Cameroon Army Team Jets in for Military Cup

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:03:51 GMT

CAMEROON army team jetted in yesterday to defend the Africa Military Football Cup (CAMFOOT) that kicks off in Kampala next week.

Cameroon: Agric Equipment Producers Online

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:36:20 GMT

A workshop to validate their data base took place last week in Douala.

Thursday, December 4

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:07:17 GMT

Today is Thursday, December 4, the 339th day of 2008. There are 27 days left in the year.

Food Price Hikes Mean Hungrier, Angrier Prisoners

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:06:37 GMT

Food price hikes that sparked deadly riots in Cameroon earlier this year have severely cut meals for prisoners, and officials fear a revolt.

Using Micro-Finance To Foster Development

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:04:49 GMT

A one day seminar organised by the National Employment Fund, under the theme "Fostering Development in the Micro Finance Sector: how to upgrade services and build-up customer loyalty" ended in Bamenda on 11 November with a call on participants to redouble efforts and make the micro-finance sector a tool that will help low income earners become economic actors in the world economy.

SDF - Encouraging Women In Active Politics

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:04:45 GMT

Overcoming obstacles which women in politics face was topical at a two-day workshop in Bamenda. Social Democratic Front Party (SDF) women from all the ten regions of Cameroon have been drilled on how to get over speed brakes that check them out of active politics. That was the subject of a two day workshop in Bamenda during which participants received lessons on the concept of Social democracy and its application, the place of the SDF in Cameroon politics, obstacles encountered by women in politics etc.

Minister Mama Fouda Visits Fifinda Health Centre

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:04:44 GMT

While launching the AIDS week in Kribi, the minister took off time to visit the Fifinda health centre. Fifinda, located some 35 kilometres from Kribi, in the South Region, will soon have a modern integrated health centre with dentist services.

MINDEF - Priority To Fighting Insecurity

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:04:42 GMT

The Ministers of Defence and Social Affairs yesterday defended the 2009 draft budgetary allocations for their ministries. The Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Defence, Remy Ze Meka was the first member of government to defend the draft budgetary allocation for the ministry in the 2009 financial year at the Finance and Budget Committee of the National Assembly yesterday.

Tie and Dye Material en Vogue

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:04:39 GMT

Tailoring workshops spring up in Akwa-Nord which sell clothes with tie and dye materials. In the early 2002s, the famous clothes especially Kabas sewn with tie and dye materials were very common in Douala and sold for FCFA 1000.