The story about the killing of 12 year old boy Rhandy Ndonko is still making news around the Ngoussou neighbourhood and Yaounde the nation’s capital. He was stabbed and killed last September 2016 by a 22 year old girl – Nchang Tina Ngwa who was apparently serving as housemaid to the Ndonko Family at Santa Babara-Ngoussou neighbourhood in Yaounde.

From police investigations, Nchang Tina Ngwa affirmed that she drank two bottles of Guinness and a short of whisky before committing the act. Rhandy died shortly after having been stabbed three times on his back. As if that wasn’t enough, she tried stabbing Rhandy’s elder brother Ndonko Wanyl who attempted to rescue his brother but did not succeed.

Tina who was arrested eight days after the incident, was recently presented to the public by the elements of the First Police District of the Centre Region in Yaounde. The bloody act occurred just after two weeks of Tina’s recruitment as house maid at the Ndonko’s and at a time where the children just resumed schools from holidays.  As a result of this, the forces of law and order are calling on parents to keep a close watch at the house maids they employ to serve their households.

Local media reports say Joseph Otto Wilson, the Governor of the Central Region has been very ill for several months now and the Biya acolyte is currently fighting for his life.

Information has filtered that the governor’s   health condition worsened to the point where he was evacuated on Saturday, October 8, 2016 to a hospital in France. A sister publication, Cameroon-Info.Net, confirmed the news and added that the governor looked like a living corpse when he was last seen in Yaounde.

Governor Joseph Otto Wilson has now joined the CPDM long list of patients evacuated to France and has fuelled the debate on the inadequacies of technical equipment in Cameroonian hospitals that started following the evacuation to Paris of  the iconic former captain of Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, Rigobert Song Bahanag.

By Rita Akana with files from Cmaeroon Info.Net

African Heads of State will from Monday the 10th to Saturday, the 15^th of October, 2016 hold a summit on maritime safety and governance for security and development in Africa. Thirty leaders and heads of government are expected in the Togolese capital, Lome on the 15^th of October for the closure of the summit.

Faure Gnassingbe, the Togolese President had personally invited his Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya during a private meeting on the side-lines of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, which held from Monday the 19th to Monday the 26^th of September, 2016 in New York.

The Togolese President was in Yaounde in 2013 during the Summit of Heads of State and Governments of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the Economic Community of States of West Africa (ECOWAS) and the Gulf of Guinea Commission (CGG) on the Maritime Safety and Security in the Gulf of Guinea.

Local media reports from the nation’s capital Yaounde say a lot of tongues have been wagging if President Biya will make the trip to Togo. Biya has been absent from the country for 22 days now in an unknown destination. When he left Yaoundé on September the 16th, 2016, a statement from the Civil Cabinet at the Presidency of the Republic announced that he was going to the United States to attend the 71st session of the UN general assembly. Biya reportedly left New York a day before the closing of the UN General Assembly for a secret destination.

By Chi Prudence Asong

The Government Delegate to the Yaounde City Council, Gilbert Tsimi Evouna has installed the new Secretary General to the Council, Gabriel Essoa Eloi. The installation ceremony took place on the 6^th of October 2016 in Yaounde.

Speaking during the installation ceremony, the new Secretary General indicated that he will continue in the footsteps of his predecessor and also improve on the sanitary state of the city.

Before his appointment on 20th September, 2016, Gabriel Essoa Eloi was Senior Divisional Officer of the Upper Nkam in the West Region.

He takes over from Alphonse Roger Ondoa Akoa who was appointed Director General of the Cameroon Water Utility Company, CAMWATER.

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The general manager of HYSACAM, Ngapanoun Michel has said that the garbage bins that are deployed in our cities to ensure cleanliness find themselves unduly in private homes. In a country where people steal even what they do not need, hundreds of public bins listed in the cities of Douala and Yaounde, have been stolen by local residents, especially those with a capacity of between 120 and 360 litres.

The cities of Douala and Yaoundé, respectively economic and political capitals of Cameroon are the most concerned. These two cities have piles of garbage everywhere. Moreover, it is a significant shortfall for HYSACAM as a plastic garbage bin cost nearly 150 000 FCFA. In areas where the bins have not been carried away, they have all been destroyed by women roasting fish and maize who regularly dump hot charcoal into the bins and reduced them to ashes.

In Yaounde, the matter is more intractable as the access road to the Waste Treatment Centre including the garbage dumping areas within the site is completely blocked during the rainy season, despite the intervention of the Military Engineering Department.

By Sama Ernest with files from CIN

The Chairman of Cameroon’s anti-corruption body, CONAC, Dieudonne Massi Gams has hailed the work of the Business Coalition against Corruption (BCAC) in Cameroon. Speaking during a kind of CPDM cocktail at the residence of the British High Commissioner in Yaounde on the 4^th of October 2016, Dieudonne Massi Gams thanked BCAC for training over 400 “good governance managers” in Cameroon and advocated for greater cooperation.

The Business Coalition against Corruption seeks to reinforce the respect of ethics in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises which have a key role in Africa’s economic advancement. Some members of BCAC who made the trip to Cameroon with Neil Wigan, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Director for Africa highlighted the importance of developing a culture of integrity and good governance in Cameroon’s business sector.

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In what the Cameroon Radio and Television reported as a renewed commitment by the Chinese government to support Cameroon, Beijing has handed over a Greek gift of toiletries and foodstuff to the Chantal Biya Foundation in Yaounde. Cameroon Concord News understands the donations were received on behalf of the First Lady, Chantal Biya by the Secretary General of the foundation, Habissou Bidoung.

The 30^th of September 2016 ceremony also provided an opportunity for the Chinese ambassador to Cameroon, Wei Wenhua to make public his thank you message to the foundation for alleviating the plight of the underprivileged and vulnerable in the country. Some pro CPDM comedians noted that the donation, second of its kind, was a means of strengthening relations between Cameroon and China, while projecting future partnerships.

Eyong Paul