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Abeh Valery

15.Sep.2017

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The CPDM affiliated lord mayor of Santa is no more. Mr Khan Moses passed on early this morning at at St Mary hospital in Bamenda .

Sources say the mayor collapsed while doing his regular morning exercises at his home. He is said to have taken part in a meeting yesterday in Bambui, what seem to have been his last public outing. 

The late mayor has ben an outspoken critic of the struggle for independence of Southern Cameroons. Activists call his actions selfish because of his quest for higher political position with Biya's government .

Mayor Khan had served in various capacities in the finance sector of public service including Donga Mantung Divisional Treasurer. He is former Paymaster General of NW. Voted as mayor of Santa council after September 30th 2013 municipal elections. He was also President of United Cities and Councils of Cameroon for the NW.

The mayor is also the founder of the Synagogue house of prayers at sonac street in Bamenda. 

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Rita Akana

15.Sep.2017

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After close to a year of uninterrupted service, clients of the internet service provider (ISP) Vodafone Cameroun, who entered the LTE market in 2016, are experiencing their first major disturbances on the network since the end of last week.

Indeed, on Friday 8 September 2017, it was impossible to connect to the Vodafone network throughout the day. “Dear client, internet service is temporarily suspended due to disturbances on the network. The technical team is working to restore the connection. Thank you for your patience”, the operator informed its clients via SMS at the end of the day. 

On the following day, 9 September 2017, Vodafone Cameroun came back to announce to its clients the resumption of the connection in in the city of Douala, the economic capital of the country; the city of Yaoundé rather stayed disconnected from the network until the end of the evening.

After a break of a day and a half, disturbances restarted in the evening of 11 September, preventing thousands of clients, who rushed to this operator at the start of its activities, from accessing internet for some hours.

If some telecoms experts see these disturbances as a too quick saturation of the network, due to the success of Vodafone services since the start of its activities; others rather see them as inconveniences caused by operations to extend the service of this operator to another eight Cameroonian cities.

Indeed, after restricting its activities to only Yaoundé and Douala, for close to a year, this ISP announced, at the end of August this year, that its network is now operational in eight new cities in Cameroon. These are Bafoussam (Western region), Bamenda (North-West), Buéa, Kumba, Mutengene, Limbé (South-West), Edéa (Littoral) and Kribi (South). 

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Rita Akana

15.Sep.2017

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A delegation of four Ministers shall be in Douala today 14 September, to evaluate the activities of the Mercy ship which docked at the Douala sea port on 17 August 2017, with the main objective of helping the less privilege people of the country suffering from various health issues.

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14.Sep.2017

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The Minister of Communication Issa Tchiroma Bakari, announced his newly created twitter account on 7 September 2017 at 8pm. “Good evening dear friends, I’m very happy to meet you on this forum where we can have exchanges on our beautiful nation Cameroon”, the Minister tweeted.

He had announced in 2016 that, the Head of State Paul Biya had ordered every Minister of the Republic to create accounts on social networks. Having done the announcement, its only this September that he created his own account.

Chedjou Kamdem, specialist in digital communication and administrator of the Historic site of Cameroon said “twitter is a proximate social network... being an actor of public life and the Minister of an institution which has to do with communication, it is important that he should be on twitter to exchange with people. Even though an account for the Ministry of Communication already existed, its better as the Minister now has his own account in person” he explains.

The digital specialist said this move is one which should be warmly welcomed by journalists because, they will now have the opportunity to chat with the Minister about crucial issues which he usually only discusses during his conferences.

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13.Sep.2017

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A vehicle carrying members of the Rapid Intervention Battalion has crashed on it's way from Victoria to Bamenda, according to reports reaching us.
No body has died but there are serious injuries, reports say.

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Tasha S.T

12.Sep.2017

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