Society

A network of traffickers of human blood has just been dismantled in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon, according to media sources.

The traffickers, it is said, were secretly luring inhabitants to sell blood to them which will later be resold at 6500 FCFA per sachet to local hospitals in the area.

Members of the network included medical staff and even some highly placed medics.According to our information, donors underwent no medical checks before the blood was collected.

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Rita Akana

01.Mar.2017

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Rita Akana

28.Feb.2017

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The small town of Nkep, close to Bangou, in the Western region of Cameroon, is getting ready to become a tourist spot. In this village where he was born, Cameroonian industrialist Francis Nana Djomou, the boss of Biopharma, a cosmetics company leader in the Cameroonian market and claiming today a presence in 22 countries; is building a giant tourist complex.

Based on information revealed by the Pan African magazine Jeune Afrique, the complex which covers 20 hectares of the family domain has ultramodern bungalows; a botanical garden with rare species; a zoo and a farm; horse-riding, conference and fitness centres; football pitches, basketball and tennis courts at international standards, as well as a vast 3-hectare plantation for organic farming.

The complex in which this businessman will invest no less than FCfa 2 billion, should be operational by 2019; as, we learned, Francis Nana Djomou is hoping to turn it into one of the accommodation sites for teams during the 2019 AfCON organised by Cameroon. With one of the groups based in Bafoussam, in the Western region of Cameroon.

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Rita Akana

24.Feb.2017

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Mutengene-South West Reion:Youths of Quarter Two got angry Wednesday after the death of Crispo a Carpenter around 9PM ,allegedly shot by Police on patrol. After his death,some youths carried his body to the police station demanding answers from them(Who shot Crispo) It is during this time that they vandalized the police station which led to escape of four persons under detention.

They also burnt down some cars including that of police Commissioner. Today around Quarter Two,security has been beefed up as locals continue to demand answers.

The DO for Tiko Che Patrick Ngwashi is on the ground,the quarter head of the area has been invited to take part in crisis meeting. GBHS Limbe is also heavily guarded.

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Prince Nfor Hanson

23.Feb.2017

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On Sunday evening,19.February 2017,  viewers in Cameroon watched and meditated a media clash between Calixthe Beyala and Cameroonian journalists charged with interviewing the novelist.

Invited to a program deemed to be a highlight of Sunday night television, with the evocative name, the "Arena", facing sharp interviewers, impertinent and annoying to the limit, the  Cameroonian novelist, lost her cool.

The Franco-Cameroonian novelist, offered viewers a spectacle unworthy of her international reputation, an incident closed to barbarism and savagery.

Besides the use of street and vulgar language, the Francaphone author of« L’Homme qui m’offrait le ciel »translated as "The Man who offered me heaven", visibly irritated by the pugnacity of the questions addressed to her, displayed a very hysterical character. A very contemptuous and condescending attitude towards panellists and viewers.

As if her choice of words was not enough, Calixthe Beyala stood up, pulled out her microphone, and threatened to leave the set, before sitting down after numerous pleads from the journalists.

After the show, Calixthe Beyala, the arrogant novelist spoke outrightly, "facing the savages, I am known to be more wild. I did a chainsaw massacre. I hope that the guys will learn to make the distinction between an interview and gratuitous aggression, "she lamented, trying to explain that these journalists had transformed" television "into" piggery ".

The attitude of Calixthe Beyala creates controversy within the francophone viewers. Some believe that the Cameroonian novelist was pushed to the limit by the journalists who played the inquisitors into her private life.

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Mouelle Olivier

21.Feb.2017

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After the arrests of some journalists in Bamenda who were later ferried to Yaoundé overnight, most Bemenda denizens and the North West population at large, including media men and women are now living in perpetual fear of being abducted by security officials for something they might have said or wrote.
A good number of journalists or comedians who used to inform the public on current happenings on the ongoing Anglophones crisis have reportedly had their programs cancelled or censored after the visit of the national communication team in Bamenda headed by veteran journalist, Peter Esoka. Recently, the home of one of the female journalist with one of the local radio station in Bamenda was visited over night by security men, allegedly from Yaoundé. Her home was ransacked after she escaped, abandoning her twin babies in the house.
The few Journalists who are braving the storm can be read or heard on air blabbering half truths. Others have abandoned the profession and have resorted to business, farming or just idling around and doing nothing.
Some North West elites, like the Fons, Senators, Parliamentarians and the National Chairman of SDF, Ni John Fru Ndi have raised concerns on the apparent stifling of the press to no avail.
Allegations are also rife that people are now using the Anglophone crisis to settle previous scores. A concerned member of the public told this reporter that “someone just needs to point at you to these security men from Yaoundé as a member of the SCNC or any of the Anglophone pressure groups and the next day you will find yourself in Yaoundé.”
Another person who also opted for anonymity said the fear and paranoia is so great that “To pick a call from either a friend or from a family member who either wants to know the state of the town, one must look left and right before answering. Any call you receive wherein the word ‘ghost town’ is mentioned might land you to Yaounde the next day; at times people’s phones are seized and searched.”

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Rita Akana

20.Feb.2017

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