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The deadline for the registration for the 2018 GCE examinations has been moved from 29 December 2017 to 2 February 2018. The information was released by the minister of secondary education in a communiqué. The decision comes at the backdrop of the persistent perturbation of classes in Southern Cameroons. The unrest in Southern Cameroons has forced the powers that be to make unusual changes to the GCE examinations. Last year even the deadline for the written and practical phases was postponed. Pundits have criticized the the previous session of the exams as invalid because candidates didn't receive enough lessons. 

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Rita Akana

04.Jan.2018

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A road accident occurred today at the Dschang Roundabout adjacent the lee way from Bafoussam.

Today road users were once more gripped with shock and consternation when two persons lost their lives due to an ugly road accident Total number of victims that died on the spot are two persons and others are seriously wounded.

Amongst the accident victims is a Gendarmerie element by name Modeste Mbosso, who was at work controlling traffic flow amongst the mixed traffic control police.

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Rita Akana

03.Jan.2018

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Some Cameroonian authorities who used to work in the Cameroon embassy in the United States of America, have refused to com back to the country and commence duty at their new posts.

Gervais Bindzi, a former diplomat at the Cameroon embassy in the United States of America, who was recently appointed at the Ministry of External relations in Douala, and Omar Chimoun appointed Director of American affairs at the Ministry of External relations, are still in the United states, months after news of their appointments.

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03.Jan.2018

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The Parish pastor of the Presbyterian church in Nkolbison Yaounde, has been found dead after he went missing.

Rev. Ewala Jeremiah is reported to have been found dead in a pool of blood behind his Parish church.

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24.Dec.2017

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Six people are reported dead in an accident along the Douala-Edea highway.

The incident occurred when a transport bus from Touristique Express collided with a private car on Thursday night.

It happened at a place called Decharge Alucam, about 7km from Edea.

The collision set the private car ablaze with six persons on board.

The intervention of the fire brigade and the gendarmerie came too late to save the people from the fire.

Several injuries are reported in the bus.

The bus was travelling from Douala to Yaoundé.

Official sources at the scene say it happened when the bus tried to avoid a broken-down truck, parked on the road without any indicators.

The SDO for Sanaga Maritime has opened an investigation into the tragedy.

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Rita Akana

22.Dec.2017

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Following an administrative investigation conducted on 14,134 presumed fictitious civil servants, Michel Ange Angouing, Cameroon’s minister for the civil service, has just published a list of 2,817 civil servants whose salaries have been stopped since January 2016.

According to the minister, those servants are yet to respond to the numerous formal notices sent to them. So, he gives them 30 days (till January 18, 2018) to come to the ministry, division of discipline and litigation, "else, they will be purely and simply deregistered from the list of civil servants, in accordance with the legislation in force".

The cleaning of Cameroon’s civil service registry results from the physical count operation, instructed by Paul Biya, in a circular related to the preparation of the country’s budget for 2018. With this physical count, the government wants to mitigate the phenomena of fictitious civil servants or the one of civil servants who have left their posts, but, still, unduly, receive wages and other entitlements from the public treasury. 

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Rita Akana

22.Dec.2017

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