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Bamenda the chief city in the North West region on February 5, 2016 received the mortal remains of Major General Martin Chomu Tumenta. On arrival at the Bamenda airport, the late general's coffin was received by the Governor of the Northwest West Region, Adolf Lele L’Afrique including the region’s top administrators. Flown into the city in a military plane, the body of the 61 year old late Major General was accompanied by two other army generals among them Gen Ivo Yenwo Desancio, Director of Presidential Security who also hails from the Northwest region. 

Governor Adolph Lele exchanged words of condolence with the wife of the fallen General at the airport. As the plane opened to release the remains of the late General, silence griped the airport then military rituals and some tears running down the chicks of family members and other onlookers. In military styled, the casket was marched to a waiting military ambulance for departure to Ndop. Prior to his death on November 30, Maj. Gen. Tumenta, was serving as Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

Born in 1954 Maj. Gen. Tumenta started his military career after graduating from the military academy EMIA in Yaounde in 1977 as an air force officer. He later served in several positions including, amongst others, Chief Operations Officer at the Army Headquarters in Yaounde, Commander of Operation DELTA in the Bakassi Peninsula and Commander of the Third Military Region, which covers Cameroon’s northern regions and had its headquarters in Garoua.

In 2013, he was appointed Commander of the African-led International Support Mission to the Central African Republic (MISCA) a force that was later transformed to the broader MINUSCA mission. In July 2014, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed Maj. Gen. Tumenta as Force Commander of MINUSCA. Major General Tumenta will be buried in his native Babungo, in Ngoketungia Division, on Saturday February 6, 2016.

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06.Feb.2016

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The government delegate to the Limbe city council, Motanga Andrew Monjimba has ordered a massive demolition of buildings in his area of jurisdiction. The council boss observed at the beginning of the implementation of this unprecedented fracas that it was a decision taken in December, 2012, by councilors that all houses built with normal timber known as plank houses closed to any major tarred road around the City should be destroyed. 

Cameroon Concord gathered that the government delegate's decision is to give the city of Limbe a new face lift before the start of the female African Cup of Nations to be hosted partly in Limbe. It remains the most unpopular decision ever in the history of the council as hundreds of people have been left homeless. Our senior political correspondent in the South West region who contributed to this report hinted Motanga Andrew was acting under direct supervision from Etoudi.

Some of the homeless persons we spoke to recently wondered aloud how a football competition should leave them with no shelter and any form of livelihood. The government delegate thus not owe his mandate to the Limbe population but to the Cameroonian dictator living in far away Yaounde.

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06.Feb.2016

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At least fifteen shops selling basic commodities went up in smoke on Saturday morning at the Ndogkoti market located at Bassa, Douala. According to initial reports, a short circuit was the cause of the fire that destroyed the shops. The electricity we learned was stopped at nightfall. 

Upon its return claimed police sources, it started the fire. The fire was so strong that no one could intervened. After the central market in Douala, Mfoundi (Yaoundé), Limbe (South West), Bertoua (East), it was today the turn of the Ndogkoti market. The issue of short circuits have always been raised to explain the origin of flames in Cameroon.

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06.Feb.2016

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A woman in Australia reportedly crashed her own funeral after escaping from the hitmen that her husband hired to kill her.

The incredible tale, reported by the BBC, began a year ago in Burundi, where Noela Rukundo had gone to attend her stepmother's funeral.

What she didn't know, of course, was that her husband had hired men in her native country to kill her.  

When she left her hotel room, she was kidnapped, but the gang members had a change of heart, refusing to kill a woman. 

They reportedly left her on the side of a road, with her husband believing that the murder had been carried out. 

Three days later, she returned to Melbourne, where her husband, Balenga Kalala, was hosting mourners after telling people she'd died in an accident. 

As mourners left the home, Noela sprung the surprise on her husband.

"Surprise! I'm still alive!" she told him, after he exclaimed that he had seen a "ghost."

Kalala was sentenced to nine years in prison for the plot, which he later confessed to in a recorded phone conversation with his wife.

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06.Feb.2016

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Bamenda the chief city in the North West region on February 5, 2016 received the mortal remains of Major General Martin Chomu Tumenta. On arrival at the Bamenda airport, the late general's coffin was received by the Governor of the Northwest West Region, Adolf Lele L’Afrique including the region’s top administrators. Flown into the city in a military plane, the body of the 61 year old late Major General was accompanied by two other army generals among them Gen Ivo Yenwo Desancio, Director of Presidential Security who also hails from the Northwest region. 

Governor Adolph Lele exchanged words of condolence with the wife of the fallen General at the airport. As the plane opened to release the remains of the late General, silence griped the airport then military rituals and some tears running down the chicks of family members and other onlookers. In military styled, the casket was marched to a waiting military ambulance for departure to Ndop. Prior to his death on November 30, Maj. Gen. Tumenta, was serving as Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

Born in 1954 Maj. Gen. Tumenta started his military career after graduating from the military academy EMIA in Yaounde in 1977 as an air force officer. He later served in several positions including, amongst others, Chief Operations Officer at the Army Headquarters in Yaounde, Commander of Operation DELTA in the Bakassi Peninsula and Commander of the Third Military Region, which covers Cameroon’s northern regions and had its headquarters in Garoua.

In 2013, he was appointed Commander of the African-led International Support Mission to the Central African Republic (MISCA) a force that was later transformed to the broader MINUSCA mission. In July 2014, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed Maj. Gen. Tumenta as Force Commander of MINUSCA. Major General Tumenta will be buried in his native Babungo, in Ngoketungia Division, on Saturday February 6, 2016.

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06.Feb.2016

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The government delegate to the Limbe city council, Motanga Andrew Monjimba has ordered a massive demolition of buildings in his area of jurisdiction. The council boss observed at the beginning of the implementation of this unprecedented fracas that it was a decision taken in December, 2012, by councilors that all houses built with normal timber known as plank houses closed to any major tarred road around the City should be destroyed. 

Cameroon Concord gathered that the government delegate's decision is to give the city of Limbe a new face lift before the start of the female African Cup of Nations to be hosted partly in Limbe. It remains the most unpopular decision ever in the history of the council as hundreds of people have been left homeless. Our senior political correspondent in the South West region who contributed to this report hinted Motanga Andrew was acting under direct supervision from Etoudi.

Some of the homeless persons we spoke to recently wondered aloud how a football competition should leave them with no shelter and any form of livelihood. The government delegate thus not owe his mandate to the Limbe population but to the Cameroonian dictator living in far away Yaounde.

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06.Feb.2016

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