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On the 30th of January 2017 the group Hysacam was awarded the contract by the Government of Cameroon in association with the Bamenda City Council to collect and manage urban waste in the city of Bamenda. The newly created Hysacam Bamenda branch officially launched its activities and began work in the city on the 23rd of February 2017.

Ensuring to meet up with its mission in Bamenda, the group Hysacam recently presented 6 brand new Renault trucks and a chain foot front loader to manage household waste in Bamenda. With these equipments, Hysacam can now access all streets and interior neighborhoods in the city to ensure Bamenda is kept clean.

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Rita Akana

11.Aug.2017

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Elites and youths of Bangolan village drawn from all over the country rallied at the palace of their Fon, HRH Chafah Isaac XI in Yaounde on Saturday August 5th in a general meeting to concert on  measures that can enhance lasting peace and harmony in Bangolan. They all agreed to prioritise dialogue, love for one another and to encourage other youths to shun violent extremism tendencies. Chairing the opening ceremony of the meeting, HRH, Fon Chafah XI of Bangolan reiterated that he has forgiven everybody nor matter their offences and  he is also ready to rehabilitate those who went astray. He added that he has never stopped praying asking God to open the eyes of some of his subjects who took the wrong direction to come back to their senses.

The grand rally which brought Bangolan indigenes from Bamenda, Ndop, Babessi, Foumbot, OBALA, Yaoundé, Ebolowa, Kribi, Ayos, Douala,Ntui,just to name a few ended with ground breaking resolutions arrived at. Top amongst the resolutions include the continues preaching of peace and reconciliation which they all acknowledged are conditions sine quanon for socio economic development of their village which has been in ruins for over a year now. Participants also denounced the lackadaisical attitude portrayed by some Bangolan natives towards this moment of misunderstanding in the village and called on all to join the peace and reconciliation wagon for the common interest of their village.

However they also regretted the recent brouhaha which broke up between Bangolan and  Babessi leading to the seizure of a huge portion of their farm land with crops by the Babessi people. All efforts to arrive at a consensus with the Babessi traditional council regarding the retrocession of the land to Bangolan has been futile as the Babessi people insist if they must dialogue, it should be in the presence of Fon Chafah whom they recognize as ruler of Bangolan till date.

It should be recalled that the present stalemate in Bangolan erupted in February 2016 when some ignorant youths plotted an abortive coup to unseat FON Chafah who has been on the throne for 35 years. His step brother late Mbipefah James Salim a protagonist of bellicose activism was tipped for the command post but was snatched by the cool hands of death, a situation which many believe the ancestors were furious with the overzealous prince for desecrating the land by attempting dethrone his brother who was enthroned 35 years ago by their father under the watchful eyes of the entire village and the administration.

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Rita Akana

07.Aug.2017

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A Powerful storm hit part of Jakiri town on the 24th of July 2017 destroying a vast number of houses and farms. This suddenly made families and individual homeless in desperate need of food.Many have been taken in by neighbors or have move to other areas where they have relatives.

strong wind in jakiri-Bamenda
The CORA Relief Team

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Rita Akana

05.Aug.2017

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Thousands of mourners, who were conveying the mortal remains of the late Bishop of Bafia, Mgr. Jean Marie Beniot Bala, to its final resting place, August 2, were bemused when the military escort who was leading the ending convoy collided with a Toyota car.     

The Motorcade rider, Buba Gautier, died en route to the Efok Hospital, after the ghastly car crash.

The mortal remains of the deceased Bishop of Bafia were removed from the Yaounde General Hospital Mortuary in the presence of members of the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon, NEC, clerics, family members, friends, Christ lay faithful and the personal representative of President Paul Biya, Justice Minister, Laurent Esso.  

During the Requiem that took place at the Our Lady of Victory Cathedral Yaounde, Mgr. Joseph Akonga Essomba in his homily stunned the mourners when he stated without blinking that the killers of Bishop Bala were present in church, pretending to be weeping even more than the bereaved.

“The hypocrites responsible for the evil killings of our colleagues are here present and pretending to be sympathizers and well wishers. They are struggling to destroy the church from within,” Mgr. Essomba declared.

He re-echoed the Bishops’ stand that Mgr. Bala was brutally murdered.

The Priest said no matter the evil plans against the men and women of God, the Catholic Church shall always remain very strong and objective.

It will not crumble for it is built on a foundation of Jesus Christ, who is the truth and the light.

Tongues are already wagging that even if the Government is shielding the murderers of the Prelate, God will avenge the death of his servant.  

 

 

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Abeh Valery

03.Aug.2017

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Dr. Humphrey Ekema Monono, Registrar of the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Board, July 30, narrowly escaped death from yet to be identified assailants.

Dr. Ekema Monono was ambushed while doing sports in the early hours of the day.

Speaking to Cameroon Concord, Monono said “I usually leave my house for jogging around 5.30am. On that fateful day I was jogging on the road from Buea Town down through Bokwai Village to the Buea Central Market, when I realised some young men jogging behind me.  I thought they were also doing sports.  

But when a taxis that was transporting people early that morning to the Muea Market drove past and a passenger shouted from inside: “Na that bad boys them that! When I turned to look at them, the young men all took-off and ran into the valley of the Catholic Church Great Soppo.

I thought of continuing with the sports, but it dawned on me that those boys could return for me so I sped off back home safely,” the GCE Board Registrar recounted.

Monono revealed that recently, one of the examiners at this year’s GCE session was ambushed and robbed of his phones and other valuables.

So far, it cannot be determined whether Dr. Monono’s case was an opportunistic ambush or a pre-meditated one, but conspiracy theorists have already been drawing conclusions and levelling accusations as to who could have been behind the ambush that was foiled, thanks to an observant but unidentified passenger in a taxi.  

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Abeh Valery

03.Aug.2017

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Newspaper distribution will no longer be in the hands of Messapress as from 7 August 2017. A new enterprise, Cooperative for the Publishing and Distribution of the Cameroon Press (CEDIPRESS) will take over.

“From Next Saturday, we will start receiving the newspapers; our teams are ready to host the production of all local publishers. We look forward to the commitment of publishers to get involved in this cooperative and also those who have not yet joined but who entrust us with the  distribution of their newspapers” the promoter of the enterprise said.  

Their work will be based on four aspects; firstly, the logistical aspect which includes the collection, processing and delivery to agents, secondly, the commercial part, which will concentrate on the advice and assistance in the distribution of the newspapers, thirdly, the financial domain for the collection of revenue from the custodians of sales and then the fourth aspect which will be based on management of information related to the collection of sales data and sales information.

This transition comes as a result of the decision of Messapress to increase the amount of money they tax for distribution from 40% to 50%, which many publishers were not in support of.

Nevertheless, they will keep on distributing French publications from outside the country.  

 

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Rita Akana

02.Aug.2017

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