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Table eggs worth over a million Frs CFA were set ablaze by regional officials of the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry.

The cartoons of over 1000 eggs were burnt within the old premises of the Bamenda City Council.

Speaking to the press the officials said the eggs, coming in from the West Region, had been produced within the period of Bird Flu in the region.

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Rita Akana

17.Jun.2016

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One person has been has been killed and the office of the commander of the of the Mboppi gendarmerie Brigade in Douala has been shattered following a shootout in the early hours of June 16 2016. Witnesses heard gunshots for the greater part of the night.

There are controversies on the origins of the gunshots.Security sources first related it to a detainee of about 30 years old who is said to have escaped from his cell and made his way into an armory from where he began opening fire, apparently in an attempt to escape. Though not fully identified at the time of filing in this report, concordant sources said the ‘assailant’ is reportedly a gendarme officer who was dismissed from the corps. Information from other sources indicated that the ‘assailant’ visited as a former colleague and demanded the use of the toilet.

He latter hid himself in the ceiling of the brigade from 5:00 pm till 10:00 and after stealing a ‘bag’ of bullets and a gun. He is reported to have latter fallen off the ceiling late at night. The said fall created panic within the gendarmerie camp prompting everyone to be on alert. Elements of the Groupement Polyvalent d’Intervention de La Gendarmerie National, GPIGN, who were called in, were forced to cordon off the entire area to limit the damages from reaching the civilian population in the several hours of shootout that ensured. No security source was able to confirm information from other sources which said the incident followed an attempt by a group of armed men to liberate some of their alleged accomplices who were being detained.

What has so far been accepted by the different sources is the fact that the suspect was bullet ridden beyond recognition and killed. His corpse was transported to the Bonanjo military hospital morgue pending investigations. Circulation from SCDP through the crowded Mboppi Market and from the Camp Yabassi end of the road was seriously paralyzed. Shops in the Mboppi market are gradually being opened.

Additional reporting from Chris Thobie and Triyah Swebu.

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Solomon amabo

16.Jun.2016

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On June 15, 2016, as part of the U.S. Embassy’s Gender Equity Working Group programming, Peace Corps Cameroon volunteers gave presentations on their work at the grassroots levels to mobilize adolescent girls and young women to improve healthy lifestyles. 

Welcoming guests, Deputy Chief of Mission Matthew D. Smith thanked Peace Corps volunteers for their service in Cameroon and noted that the program represented the United States’ commitment to promote women’s empowerment hand in hand with Cameroonian communities. See Facebook album of program

One volunteer,  Jonathan Keenan, uses soccer as a tool to educate youth about HIV/AIDS, empower girls to make healthy decisions, and engage the community to support healthy lifestyles among adolescent girls and young women.  During his presentation, he said “ During one soccer activity, we only allowed the girls to score.  Any scores made by the boys were not counted.  The point of the activity was to emphasize that women’s contributions are just as important.”  Caitlin O’Donnell, a Youth Development Peace Corps Volunteer in Kumbo, is doing a series of trainings with Bororo women around the North West through a series of gender empowerment workshops.  “ Several of our workshops are done in the presence of traditional leaders. That provides youth, particularly girls, with a safe space to voice their views.  It also gives elders an opportunity to discover the immense contributions towards development that youth bring to the table.”

Among the guests were Senator Madeleine Haoua from the Adamawa region, girl and boy athletes from the Cameroon American Football Association, Rose Mbole Epie, CRTV journalist and anchor for the Monday Show, and Irine Epie, painter of the Reunification Monument in Buea.

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Rita Akana

16.Jun.2016

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Thousands of candidates are taking part in the direct competitive entrance examination of Administrative officials of the Penitentiary which began on Monday June 13, 2016 at the campus of the Lycée General Leclerc in Yaounde. The examination which runs till June 19, 2016 brings together 1000 aspiring warders, (category, D) 800 chief warders (category C) 700 superintendents of prison (category C) and 700 prison administrators (category A).

At the campus of Lycée Général Leclerc yesterday June 15, 2016, candidates were busy warming up for the continuation of the practical part of the examination which consists of medical tests and sports exercises. For the medical tests, candidates are screened for blood pressure, visual acuity, height, weight and hearing acuity. The seven medical doctors assigned to the examination also carry out general body checks on the candidates. Sports exercises include the 100m race for men and women, 1000m race for women and 1500m race for men as well as abdominal exercises.

The Centre Regional Delegate for Penitentiary Administration, Edoa Anega Patience Dieudonné said after the medical tests, one can be declared fit or unfit. He explained that if the candidate is declared fit, he will take part in the sports exercise. If he is unfit, he is eliminated. Even after the sports exercise selection still goes on. Candidates that score below six on 20 are eliminated and cannot take part in the written part of the examination. The list of candidates admitted for the written part of the examination will be published today.

The written part of the examination will take place on Saturday June 18 and June 19. According to the programme, candidates will answer questions in dictation, law, general knowledge, civics, mathematics and penitentiary administration for superintendents and administrators, among others. This year, the examination also provides for the recruitment of 10 drivers. Edoa Anega Dieudonné said since beginning of the examination, no problems have been recorded and expressed hope that the examination will end on a satisfactory note. He said the written part of the examination will begin at 7:30 a.m.  And no late-coming will be tolerated.

Cameroon Tribune

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Rita Akana

16.Jun.2016

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three University professors in Cameroon have been suspended for sexually harassing female students in exchange for good grades, according to Higher Education Minister, Prof. Jacque Fame Ndongo:

1. Professor Njiale Pierre Marie, lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences. Njiale Pierre Marie was recorded by a student as he harassed her. He studied at Laval University in Quebec, Canada and at Paris V University in France. He is a member of the Francophone Association of Comparative Education and Vice President of Africain Education Comparée. He is the author of several scholarly publications on education in Central Africa.

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Rita Akana

10.Jun.2016

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The family of Ndi Ekoto Achille, a 24-year-old welder, does not know what next to do. He died after electrocution by a low-lying Energy of Cameroon, Eneo high-tension cable in the Blondeau neighbourhood, about 14 km from downtown Yaounde on the highway to the Nsimalen-Yaounde International Airport. Today, the family owes more than 500,000 FCFA to the Yaounde Central Hospital and is thus unable to go ahead with the burial of the decomposed body. This is after spending over 2 million FCFA to save his life.

Ndi Ekoto Achille died in the Yaounde Central Hospital on May 31, 2016, following the accident of April 29, 2016. According to his uncle, Mano Ekoto Roger, a welder with whom Ndi Ekoto Achille trained, the incident happened between 9 am and 10 am as Ndi was transporting construction rods across the neighbourhood street to his makeshift workshop. The cable, said to have been hanging about six metres above the ground, hit the 5.80-metre-long rod, electrocuting him from the neck right to the feet. Contacted a few days after the accident, Eneo officials at the regional office in downtown Yaounde asked the family to write a formal complaint; which they immediately did.

Sometime after, Eneo national head office in Douala replied, explaining that Ndi Ekoto Achille’s case could not be taken care of because the company was not responsible for the accident. When Cameroon Tribune met Tcheme Joel, the Head of Department for Hygiene, Security and Environment, in the Eneo regional office in Yaounde on June 6, 2016, he said the journalist’s version of what happened was not what was contained in complaint written by Mano Ekoto Roger.

Tcheme insisted that the accident was not the responsibility of Eneo, even when the reporter pointed out that the high-tension cable was hanging as low as six metres above the ground. And that as pointer to the fact that something was wrong, an Eneo subcontractor planted another electricity pole at the scene of the accident a few days before Ndi’s death. The new, higher pole has lifted the height of the cable to about 12 metres now. “As far as my department is concerned, the matter is already foreclosed, except the family wants to go to court,” Tcheme Joel concluded on an insistent note.

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Rita Akana

08.Jun.2016

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