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Eric Chinje, veteran Cameroonian journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Cameroon Radio and Television has called on European media gurus to set as a matter of urgency an agenda for African news coverage. Chinje told a conference in Dortmund, Germany recently that “there is news behind news because there is always an interest.”

Chinje argued that ever since the partition of Africa, the continent that has a strong and dynamic population including a vast land area with abundant natural resources has problems. Said the long standing Cameroonian journalist: “African countries are the richest yet the most poorest because of what the multinationals are doing there. The shares are always between the corrupt African leaders and multinationals". He noted that every place that has minerals has problems. Africa he observed was far and completely cut off from the entire planet. “This”, Chinje lamented has placed the continent in a most disadvantaged position economically.

Eric Chinje said that Africans are dying in the Mediterranean every day and some are starving but the media in Europe is not interested in knowing. Chinje revealed that the creation of a new African news reporting policy would stimulate economic development as well as enable the Africans to inspire confidence in their respective governments. The forum that was jointly organized by Deutsche Welle, Africa Positive and the Institute for International Journalism, Dortmund University grouped journalists and university lecturers from around the globe.

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Ngwa Bertrand

05.Nov.2015

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Eric Chinje, veteran Cameroonian journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Cameroon Radio and Television has called on European media gurus to set as a matter of urgency an agenda for African news coverage. Chinje told a conference in Dortmund, Germany recently that “there is news behind news because there is always an interest.”

Chinje argued that ever since the partition of Africa, the continent that has a strong and dynamic population including a vast land area with abundant natural resources has problems. Said the long standing Cameroonian journalist: “African countries are the richest yet the most poorest because of what the multinationals are doing there. The shares are always between the corrupt African leaders and multinationals". He noted that every place that has minerals has problems. Africa he observed was far and completely cut off from the entire planet. “This”, Chinje lamented has placed the continent in a most disadvantaged position economically.

Eric Chinje said that Africans are dying in the Mediterranean every day and some are starving but the media in Europe is not interested in knowing. Chinje revealed that the creation of a new African news reporting policy would stimulate economic development as well as enable the Africans to inspire confidence in their respective governments. The forum that was jointly organized by Deutsche Welle, Africa Positive and the Institute for International Journalism, Dortmund University grouped journalists and university lecturers from around the globe.

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05.Nov.2015

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The joint celebration of the World Day for Urbanisation and Towns was a forum for urban planners and engineers to reflect on how to come up with inclusive towns that guarantee sustainable development. To achieve the goal of building modern towns, planning and restructuring of existing facilities is indispensable, experts noted. They blame the haphazard construction of houses in most urban and sub urban areas to the inexistence of planning.

The Minister of Housing and Urban Development insisted on the respect of Urban Development Plans that are designed to promote social cohesion in towns and ensure sustainable urban development. Minister Jean Claude Mbwentchou hopes by 2020, many towns in Cameroon will respect urban planning thereby reducing the risk of man-made disasters due to the emergence of slums, disorderly built houses that block drainage systems.

For their part,the urban planners and engineers observed that they will engineer the end to the disorder in the housing sector though the introduction of descent lodging that takes into account the economic, social and environmental aspects of inclusive development.

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04.Nov.2015

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The Republic of Cameroon and the Electricity of France, EDF under the Nachtigal Consortium have both signed a purchase agreement with the Energy of Cameroon, Eneo S.A.  The agreements signed on the 3rd November 2015 grants exclusive rights to Eneo S.A to buy energy from the Nachtigal Plant on the River Sanaga. The Minister of Water Resources and Energy, Basile Atangana Kouna signed for the government of Cameroon, Vice President, Simone Rossi put pen to paper for Electricity of France, EDF, and Joel Nana Kontchou for Eneo S.A.

By the terms of the agreement, the future power plant will be operated by the newly created Electricity Transportation Company SONATREL and the management of the reservoir dams and water on the Sanaga catchment area will be done by another entity not Eneo, in line with the December 14, 2011 law on the electricity sector in the country.

According to Minister Atangana Kouna all is set for construction to begin by mid-2016 as 10 companies were preselected on the 11th of October 2015. Minister Atangana Kouna, Simone Rossi and Joel Nana Kontchou said the 420 megawatts plant will solve 20 per cent of the energy needs of the country. The project estimated to cost some 1 billion Euro, about FCFA 655.9 billion is located 60 km from the north of Yaounde.

The French expert also made public his company’s commitment to complete negotiations for the power sales agreement and subsequently ensure the execution of the project. The Electricity of France pledged to provide 40 per cent of funding while the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank and the Republic of Cameroon are contributing 34 per cent and 26 per cent respectively.

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04.Nov.2015

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The joint celebration of the World Day for Urbanisation and Towns was a forum for urban planners and engineers to reflect on how to come up with inclusive towns that guarantee sustainable development. To achieve the goal of building modern towns, planning and restructuring of existing facilities is indispensable, experts noted. They blame the haphazard construction of houses in most urban and sub urban areas to the inexistence of planning.

The Minister of Housing and Urban Development insisted on the respect of Urban Development Plans that are designed to promote social cohesion in towns and ensure sustainable urban development. Minister Jean Claude Mbwentchou hopes by 2020, many towns in Cameroon will respect urban planning thereby reducing the risk of man-made disasters due to the emergence of slums, disorderly built houses that block drainage systems.

For their part,the urban planners and engineers observed that they will engineer the end to the disorder in the housing sector though the introduction of descent lodging that takes into account the economic, social and environmental aspects of inclusive development.

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Ngwa Bertrand

04.Nov.2015

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The Republic of Cameroon and the Electricity of France, EDF under the Nachtigal Consortium have both signed a purchase agreement with the Energy of Cameroon, Eneo S.A.  The agreements signed on the 3rd November 2015 grants exclusive rights to Eneo S.A to buy energy from the Nachtigal Plant on the River Sanaga. The Minister of Water Resources and Energy, Basile Atangana Kouna signed for the government of Cameroon, Vice President, Simone Rossi put pen to paper for Electricity of France, EDF, and Joel Nana Kontchou for Eneo S.A.

By the terms of the agreement, the future power plant will be operated by the newly created Electricity Transportation Company SONATREL and the management of the reservoir dams and water on the Sanaga catchment area will be done by another entity not Eneo, in line with the December 14, 2011 law on the electricity sector in the country.

According to Minister Atangana Kouna all is set for construction to begin by mid-2016 as 10 companies were preselected on the 11th of October 2015. Minister Atangana Kouna, Simone Rossi and Joel Nana Kontchou said the 420 megawatts plant will solve 20 per cent of the energy needs of the country. The project estimated to cost some 1 billion Euro, about FCFA 655.9 billion is located 60 km from the north of Yaounde.

The French expert also made public his company’s commitment to complete negotiations for the power sales agreement and subsequently ensure the execution of the project. The Electricity of France pledged to provide 40 per cent of funding while the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank and the Republic of Cameroon are contributing 34 per cent and 26 per cent respectively.

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Ngwa Bertrand

04.Nov.2015

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