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Two Southern Cameroonians have been arrested and taken to Yaoundé for allegedly attacking some three students in Bamenda.
According to reports from a trusted source in Bamenda, the two men are "believed" to have amputated the arms of three students of GBHS Bamenda Down Town on Monday.
The students were doing  baccalaureate examinations.
In the wake of the unrest in Southern Cameroons, students and parents have been threatened by unidentified individuals of pending danger in case they disrespected calls to protest against the regime.
The arrested men have not yet officially declared their motivation.
This is happening in spite of the dreadful military presence in the two Anglophone regions of the nation.
The most awaited controversial GCE examinations come up next week, Monday 12.
Probably, more arrests are underway.
The two men join their brothers in detention centres in Yaoundé, who may face life imprisonment or capital punishment

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Rita Akana

07.Jun.2017

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The bishop who died suddenly was very close to the faithful of the Catholic Church in the chief town of Bafia. Sources say the late Bishop was a good father and a supporter. This earned him the affectionate nickname of "Papa Benoit". Faithfull christians attest he would organize annual celebration in honor of the sick from different communities of the diocese. He also worked on the construction a reception center for underprivileged and a festival hall that allows the return of funds for the development of the diocese.

For others, the cures obtained after the attentions of Bishop Jean Marie Balla remain the proof that he was really a man of God.

 "I was disabled; I had a problem in the hips that has kept me down for years. It was impossible for me to move because the pain was unbearable. Yet when Papa Benoit heard my problem, he came to see me right here in my living room. He prayed for me and gave me prayers to recite. When I began to do all that he told me to do, the pain began to diminish little by little. Today I can walk a bit, I can go to the shop all by myself and also to church, which I couldn’t do before now” says a Christian in tears.

According to reports the late Bishop was a father to all the Christians in the diocese. “Every time someone had a problem he would help. Thanks to him, many of my family members who had stopped going to church have started going. Even in the neighborhood, his way of behaving with the people and the confidence they had in him brought many members back to church. Many people were not interested but Papa Benoit changed things, "says another Christian.

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Rita Akana

06.Jun.2017

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Monday 5 June, 2017 in Bamenda witnessed a raging inferno on the first floor of the Famous Top Star Hotel situated in Nkwen.

This incident took place at 4pm on the first floor of the building with is the bakery department. Rumors goes it was a premeditated act as the hotel had been functional during the ghost town strike but the Commissioner has dismissed the claims saying it was as a result of gas leakage. The workers were baking bread meant for today’s consumption when they noticed a section of the bakery already engulfed in the raging flames and all they could was to escaped with their lives for safety.

The police were deployed to the area to prevent the public from looting since it is obvious that on this situation, people come to help but others have bad intentions as they carry things out of the house not to a safe place but away to sell or keep for personal use.

This is just one of the fire incidents in Bamenda as schools, markets and even shops have been burned down by unidentified men because of the Anglophone Crisis going on in the country.

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Ivo Nsame

06.Jun.2017

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Uncertainty looms in Kumba, Meme Division of the South West Region, following the laying of the foundation stone of the Higher Technical Teachers' Training College (HTTTC) Kumba by the Minister of Higher Education, Prof. Jacques Fame Ndongo.

The foundation stone for the construction of the baby institution, which has been placed under the University of Buea, was laid on Friday, June 2, amid protest from some locals in the area who claimed to be owners of the land on which the institution is going to be constructed on.

In the course of the ceremony, over a dozen protesters resurfaced at the ceremonial ground, wielding placards and accusing the administration of forcefully evicting them from their land and houses.

The placards carried  varied inscriptions such as: '' Civil servants are not civil masters", "Cameroon is a State of law and not disorder", ''We are not against the construction of HTTTC Kumba, we love development and not destruction" and  ''No to injustice!"

It only took the quick intervention of Commissioner Wilson Elong, to forestall the protesters from disrupting the ceremony.

Commenting on the protesters, Meme SDO, Chamberlin Ntou'ou Ndong, frowned at the demonstrators.

According to him, “I received these same people in my office a few days ago and I assured them that the issue of their indemnities has been tabled to the appropriate quarters and that talks in this regard are progressing. There was thus no need for any of such demonstration,” he said.

However, tongues are already wagging that the demonstration was just a microcosm of the problem, given that, early this year; some 80 villagers stormed the palace of Nfon V.E Mukete, decrying indiscriminate arrest.

The Paramount ruler of the Bafaws Nfon Mukete has also been on legal war path with Chief Ebanja of Mukonje over the ownership of the land on which the citadel of learning is to be constructed.  

While the area in which the school is to be built is officially part of Mukonje, the Bafaw leader is still objecting the administrative decision. To make matters worse, the traditional ruler boycotted the event.

Many think that the absent of Senator Nfon Mukete during the laying of the foundation stone may just be the beginning of the Mukonje- Bafaw tribal conflict.

Speaking at the event, Chief Ebanja of Mokunje asserted that “While the University has come to stay, we are praying that this should be the last time an occasion like this is being held on a temporary site. Everything else concerning this University, would, in the nearest future, be done on a permanent site,”

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Abeh Valery

06.Jun.2017

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The population of Kumba was dazed when Higher Education Minister Prof. Jacques Fame Ndongo bribed a sudent with 5000frs and urged the youngster and other parents to send their children to school.

Fame Ndongo stopped his convoy, removed the money from his pocket and offered to the child who was wearing a T-Shirt bearing the inscriptions of the Cameroon College of Arts and Science, CCAS, Kumba.

As parents and onlookers watched with delight, Fame Ndongo minced no words in calling for a massive return of children back to school.

The Minister spoke to the hearing of the children and parents around the neighbourhood urging them to return to school.

Even as many saluted the action of the Higher Education boss, questions arose as to whether the child was actually a student or a boiled egg hawker.

Earlier in the morning before the Minister arrived to lay the foundation stone of the Higher Technical Teachers’ College Kumba, the same child was spotted hawking boiled eggs in a bucket.

Given that the Minister's made his gesture action later in the afternoon after the said child had sold the eggs, some have believed that luck simply smiled on the boy.

Though many debated on whether the child is a student, others hold that given his age, the boy must be a student. It is believed that the social tension that has crippled effective learning in the North West and South West Regions pushed the kid into hawking.

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Abeh Valery

06.Jun.2017

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Nude photos of the daughter of the Registrar of popular Cameroon GCE board have made a tour of the Social Media over the weekend. 

The Photos on which the daughter of the controversial Dr. Monono Humphrey Ekema was in her most natural state, was received with a lot of mixed feelings.

Some people have associated the scandal to tactics employed by an Anglophone protester to destroy the reputation of the Registrar. Unfortunately the images seem to be destroying rather the reputation of the girl instead of the father as commented by most of the social media users.

“This is destroying the future of this lady. Whatever she's doing doesn't warrant such a post on social media. We have to stop posting images of our young ladies for the world to see. Such is not done in the western world because they respect the law. Southern Cameroonians must be an example for other Africans to follow” says Dieudonne Forman a Facebook User.

The publisher of the images thinks it serves the family right. He says Dr Humphrey Ekema has collected bribe and rubbished Anglophone Education and this warrants him to be treated this way.

He says “An eye for an eye; everybody who is angry should go and tell her parents to stop taking bribe and punishing Southern Cameroonians”

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Rita Akana

05.Jun.2017

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