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2, March 2017
Southern Cameroons: HYSACAM signs a 5 year deal with the Bamenda Urban Council 0
by soter • Africa, Business, Headline News
The Health and Sanitation Company of Cameroon (HYSACAM) has signed a five-year contract with the Bamenda Urban Council in Southern Cameroons. The company has successful managed urban waste chain: collection, transport, treatment, recycling and recovery for the past 46 years. The French establishment deployed its team and heavy equipments in the Bamenda province of Southern […]
2, March 2017
Anglophone Crisis: Consortium winning the economic war 0
Senior economic commentators have revealed that Cameroon will lose approximately 150 billion FCFA if the strikes and ghost town operations orchestrated by the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium in Southern Cameroons is not brought to a close. Some studies have already indicated that the decision by the Francophone Cameroonian authorities to shut down the Internet […]
1, March 2017
Douala: Blood trafficking ring dismantled 1
by soter • Headline News, Health, Life
Cameroon Radio and Television has reported that a network of traffickers of human blood has just been dismantled in Douala, the economic capital. These traffickers, the CRTV report revealed, were secretly taking blood from a hospital in Kotto, a district in Douala. The blood was then labeled and levied at 6500 FCFA and resold in […]
1, March 2017
Southern Cameroons Uprising: Huge drop in number of GCE exam entries 1
by soter • Education, Headline News, Life
The General Certificate of Education has reportedly recorded a low registration this year as compared to previous years. Local media reports in Southern Cameroons say some 70,000 candidates have successfully gone through registration formalities. The figure is far below the 182,000 that registered last year. Commenting on Tuesday February 28, 2017, the GCE Board Registrar […]
1, March 2017
CPDMization of Cameroon’s political parties: Bello Bouba gets another mandate 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
The National Chairman of the National Union for Democracy and Progress (NUDP) Bello Bouba Maigari has won a vote of confidence from members of his party. He was re-elected at the 6th ordinary congress of the party that held in Yaounde on 25th February 2017. Bello Bouba Maigari has been National Chairman of the party […]
1, March 2017
Francophone political party leaders call on Biya to reject federalism 2
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
Several Francophone opposition political parties that attended the 6th Ordinary Congress of the National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP) on February the 25th, 2017 in Yaoundé have rejected the idea of federalism currently being championed by some Southern Cameroonians including the leadership of the Social Democratic Front, SDF. The parties currently in the government […]
1, March 2017
Anglophone Crisis: North American Lawyers calls for immediate and unconditional release of Barrister Agbor Balla 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
The Professional Association of North American Lawyers has called on the Biya Francophone dominated regime to respect its obligations under international human rights law and release with immediate effect the leaders of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium. The North American group known as the Law Society of Upper Canada made public a press release […]
1, March 2017
Federalism: Can the SDF sway the majority? 1
by soter • Cameroon, Editorial, Headline News, Politics
For more than three months, West Cameroon has witnessed demonstrations which started with lawyers asking for a translation of legal documents in the country into English to reflect the country’s bilingual nature after repeated attempts by common law lawyers to get the government to understand that the country was a bi-jural and bilingual. Stuck in […]
28, February 2017
Anglophone Crisis: There’s more to Cameroon’s protest than meets the eye 0
by soter • Editorial, Headline News
For three activists from western Cameroon who joined a call for the recognition of their linguistic preferences, last week didn’t bring any good news. The lawyer, teacher and journalist have been locked up since mid-January, and their case before a military tribunal was again suspended on 13 February, to 23 March. Cameroonian jails are notorious […]
2, March 2017
US: Trump shifts rhetoric on immigration policy 0
by soter • Headline News, Politics, World
US President Donald Trump has offered a more moderate tone on immigration policy, telling lawmakers in Congress that he was open to immigration reform. Addressing the country during his first speech to Congress on Tuesday, Trump shifted from the harsh rhetoric that he had expressed over illegal immigration during his election campaign and first month […]