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In Cameroun, experts seek cultural renaissance for Africa
Region: CameroonTHE significance of African arts and culture in the socio-political and economic equation of the global world was the major thrust of the just concluded Summit of African Cultural Institutions and the African Diaspora (SACIADIA) held in Yaounde, Cameroun. As a follow-up to a similar gathering held in 2007 in Lagos, Nigeria, which focused on developing proactive strategies in the management and promotion of ... more
Views: 294Pope Urged To Talk Democracy and Human Rights in Cameroon
Region: CameroonPope Urged to Engage Cameroon's Biya on Democracy and Human Rights By Ajong Mbapndah L Although his visit to Cameroon in March is intended as a prelude to the historic meeting of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar at the Holy See in October 09, Pope Benedict XVI is been urged to talk human rights and democracy with the government of President Paul Biya. The Progressive Initiative fo... more
Views: 248Pope Benedict XVI Urged to Talk Human Rights and Democracy in Cameroon
Region: CameroonPope Urged to Engage Cameroon's Biya on Democracy and Human Rights By Laurean Ajong Mbapndah ,Washington DC Although his visit to Cameroon in March is intended as a prelude to the historic meeting of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar at the Holy See in October 09, Pope Benedict XVI is been urged to talk human rights and democracy with the government of President Paul Biya. The Pr... more
Views: 342Paul Biya:Anatomy of a Rare Brand of Leadership in Africa
Region: Cameroon1. Paul Biya: Anatomy of a Rare Brand of Leadership in Africa By Ajong Mbapndah L For a leader who rarely grants interviews especially in Cameroon where he has served as President since 1982, Paul Biya’s October 29th 2007 outing on the French TV Channel France 24 was expected to address a number of burning issues. If there is one thing it succeeded in doing, it was to keep Cameroonians more confused about his f... more
Views: 444New Tools Emerge in Global Fight for Clean Water
Region: CameroonFor more than a billion people around the world, finding clean water is a daily concern. Though some technological advances have been made, not all have proven practical. Now, some say a simple clay filter may be the one of the most effective tools. In Cameroon and Ghana, clay water filters, first produced en masse in 1998 to help victims of hurricanes in Central America, were used to curb the spread of cholera and ... more
Views: 163New Tools Emerge in Global Fight for Clean Water
Region: Cameroon
For more than a billion people around the world, finding clean water is a daily concern. Though some technological advances have been made, not all have proven practical. Now, some say a simple clay filter may be the one of the most effective tools. In Cameroon and Ghana, clay water filters, first produced en masse in 1998 to help victims of hurricanes in Central America, were used to curb the spread of cholera and ... more
Views: 377Three Young People Die at Sea
Region: Cameroon
A group of swimmers were surprised last Friday by high sea waves at the ngoye beach. It was at about 1pm when the waves swallowed five of the swimmers, but two of them young girls from Douala though unconscious, were saved by expert swimmers. The three others, two students from the government high school kribi and a 25 year old boy disappeared. The corpses were later found after thorough search. more
Views: 418Cameroon Anti-Corruption Campaign Scouring Government Ranks
Region: CameroonMore and more government officials are being trapped by this recently launched anti-corruption campaign in cameroon. After Polycarp Abah Abah former Minister of Finance, Urbain Olangeuna Awon, former Public Health Minister, were arrested on grounds of embezzlement, it is now the turn of Jean Marie Atangana Mebara, former Minister of External Relations. He was summoned last friday by the judicial police for quest... more
Views: 600Struggle for survival!!
Region: Cameroon
Day to day life in cameroon is characterised by struggles. Majority ofcitizens are involved in hand to mouth businesses.it is evident as you walk the streets daily you meet people of all age groups hawking one item or the other. Funny enough the young and the elderly generation form the majority of these people. Some because they can't go to school , others because they have no jobs after school, and the ... more
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