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The people of Mbalmayo of the Nyong and So’o Division of the Centre Region are still to come to terms following the bloody incident that occurred over the weekend, where a Gendarmerie officer killed his colleague and thereafter committed suicide. The Senior Divisional Officer for Nyong and So’o said the incident took place deep inside the Gendarmerie office in Mbalmayo.

40year old Emile Valere author of the homicide, before the incident has for some months back inculcated an unusual behaviour at his jobsite. No further information was released as to why such an abnormal behaviour but the climax of it all was a bloody incident that claimed the lives of two including the author.

38 year old Chief Marshall of the Mbalmayo Brigade received two gun shots from 40 year old Emille Valleur who later on killed himself at the Gendarmerie office at Mbalmayo. The remains of both men were taken to the Mbalmayo Hospital Mortuary. Judicial and administrative investigations have been opened as to what actually provoked such an act.Civil society groups have suggested the need for recruiting more military chaplains to help combat emotional problems among military men.

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Ngwa Bertrand

26.Nov.2015

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Cameroon joined the international community to commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on the 25th of November 2015. A major highlight of the event was a press briefing given by the Minister of Women Empowerment and the Family, Marie Therese Abena Ondoa in partnership with UNWomen and the Association for the Fight against Gender-based Violence in Cameroon. The Minister made public Cameroon government’s policy to enhance gender equality and the protection of women.

As part of the campaign to combat violence against women, the United Nations held its usual 16-day campaign dubbed “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence”. The campaign which started on the 25th November 2015 will run through the 10th of December 2015 which is a Human Rights Day. The crusade will be highlighted by a number of concrete actions to sensitise the society on the need to protect the female gender.

Through the campaign, the U.N. and the Cameroon Minister for Women Empowerment wants governments and peoples to understand that all forms of discrimination against women are a major hindrance to the advancement of society. According to the U.N, 35 per cent of women worldwide are victims of physical and sexual abuse. The degree of discrimination varies from one country to another.

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26.Nov.2015

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The people of Mbalmayo of the Nyong and So’o Division of the Centre Region are still to come to terms following the bloody incident that occurred over the weekend, where a Gendarmerie officer killed his colleague and thereafter committed suicide. The Senior Divisional Officer for Nyong and So’o said the incident took place deep inside the Gendarmerie office in Mbalmayo.

40year old Emile Valere author of the homicide, before the incident has for some months back inculcated an unusual behaviour at his jobsite. No further information was released as to why such an abnormal behaviour but the climax of it all was a bloody incident that claimed the lives of two including the author.

38 year old Chief Marshall of the Mbalmayo Brigade received two gun shots from 40 year old Emille Valleur who later on killed himself at the Gendarmerie office at Mbalmayo. The remains of both men were taken to the Mbalmayo Hospital Mortuary. Judicial and administrative investigations have been opened as to what actually provoked such an act.Civil society groups have suggested the need for recruiting more military chaplains to help combat emotional problems among military men.

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Ngwa Bertrand

26.Nov.2015

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Nguembou Joseph , 77 years old who hails from the West region of Cameroon committed suicide last weekend at his residence in Bertoua. He decided to end his days on earth thus putting his family, and close friends in sorrow and consternation .It is alleged that the deceased was sufering from depression ever since his wife passed away in June. 

Julie Ndabouang daughter of the deceased , said that since their mother died on June 26 , her dad had lost interest in life .The love he had for his better half was stronger than anything.

He always threatened to end his life.He could not bear it to continue life without his beloved wife.Family members and closed friends had intervened on several occasions with counseling and soul seeking warm words to distract him from suicidal thoughts.But last Saturday , against all odds, he got out of home without the knowledge of his family to run for his ultimate wish. Unfortunately leaving his family in sorrow and sadness .

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Ngwa Bertrand

25.Nov.2015

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If a disclosure by Public Works Minister is anything to hang on, then the Yaounde-Douala highway that has been a major headache to public authorities of recent could be rehabilitated in no distant future. In effect, during his visit on November 23, 2015 to the site of a collapsed culvert between Edea and Pouma which led to the destruction of part of the huge-traffic highway, Minister Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi announced the rehabilitation of the road. Thousands, if not millions, of people who ply the road, some on daily basis, would certainly rejoice over the announcement. Belatedly though, given the advanced state of degradation of the road, that it will be rehabilitated after all ignites hope that the many accidents, largely blamed on the bad state of the road, could be a thing of the past. The huge traffic on the road given its strategic nature of facilitating the movement of goods and persons between Cameroon and Chad and Cameroon and the Central African Republic, could be smoother.

Rehabilitating such a road as important as the Yaounde-Douala highway therefore demands a lot of groundwork. A solid foundation absolutely needs to be laid to ensure that when the road is finally rehabilitated, the problems that necessitated the refurbishment would have been given long-term solutions. The full-scale rehabilitation that the Yaounde-Douala highway badly needs today passes through in-depth feasibility studies. The Ministry of Public Works is government’s engineer and should consequently fully use the powers conferred on it to do a thorough survey of how much the road has deteriorated so as to avoid cosmetic solutions that have been proposed for similar projects elsewhere in the country. The Yaounde-Bafoussam-Bamenda stretch is a bad example that must not be copied, if we must pre-empt chaos. A comprehensive study will equally determine how much could be used to give users of the Yaounde-Douala highway a road worth the salt. First things must thus be done first so as not to fall in the trap of getting a paltry FCFA 27 billion to rehabilitate a road that needed as much as over FCFA 130 billion like was the case with the Yaounde-Bafoussam-Bamenda stretch. Even before the study is carried out which at term will determine the cost of the project, it wouldn’t require a fortune teller to conclude that huge sums of money will be required to give the Yaounde-Douala highway a facelift.

As such, once the amount would have been disclosed, stakeholders will need ample time to source for the financing. Given the financial challenges within and without the country and the limited financial resources amidst huge development needs, it would be better to get the funds handy before taking the rehabilitation works off the ground. With this, we would at least be sure that work will not be halted upon takeoff; that some parts will be out rightly rehabilitated, others given just the opportunity for their potholes to be filled or worse still some stretches scrapped of degraded tar and left in an earth form. Users of the Yaounde-Bafoussam-Bamenda road can tell the story better. The announced rehabilitation also offers stakeholders in the country the opportunity to possibly widen the road and solve the nagging problem of its narrowness whose nefarious effects have been telling over the years. The least of issues on the road will not also be the procurement strategies. Studies can come up with norms to be applied in the rehabilitation process but the choice of the contractor likewise the control firm would determine whether or not the best practices would be applied, at least to the letter. Strategies are absolutely needed to avoid marrying a contractor and a control firm who would connive to feed fat on the yet-to-be sought resources against national interest which is getting the road in the best of forms within a reasonable period. Failure to do these will be synonymous with compromising the development lift a full-scale and efficient rehabilitation would have brought.

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Ngwa Bertrand

25.Nov.2015

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Nguembou Joseph , 77 years old who hails from the West region of Cameroon committed suicide last weekend at his residence in Bertoua. He decided to end his days on earth thus putting his family, and close friends in sorrow and consternation .It is alleged that the deceased was sufering from depression ever since his wife passed away in June. 

Julie Ndabouang daughter of the deceased , said that since their mother died on June 26 , her dad had lost interest in life .The love he had for his better half was stronger than anything.

He always threatened to end his life.He could not bear it to continue life without his beloved wife.Family members and closed friends had intervened on several occasions with counseling and soul seeking warm words to distract him from suicidal thoughts.But last Saturday , against all odds, he got out of home without the knowledge of his family to run for his ultimate wish. Unfortunately leaving his family in sorrow and sadness .

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Ngwa Bertrand

25.Nov.2015

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