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300 Nigerians who escaped terrorist attacks along the boaders with Cameroon have gone back to their country. While preparing to leave from Maroua during the weekend, the Governor of the Far North region, Midjiyawa Bakari was there to supervise the distribution of food to them and to ensure that the health and safety facilities were available before departure. 

The Governor lauded the efforts of the Nigerian army along the border for guaranteeing security among its nationals and hinted that Boko Haram will soon be a thing of the past.

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15.Jan.2016

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The Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), a public agro-industrial unit exploiting oil palms, rubber trees and banana trees in the South-West region of Cameroon, announced that it is putting aside its non-standard banana selling activity throughout 2016, we learned in an official communiqué signed by the company's MD, Franklin Ngoni Njié.

The temporary suspension of this activity, which will be restarted towards the middle of 2016 for the financial year 2017, the MD of CDC stresses, follows the restructuring plan currently underway in this state company.

Exporter of bananas toward the European market (approximately 60,000 tons per year), CDC, 2nd employer in Cameroon after the state, also supplies local consumers with the non-standard bananas, a product which does not conform to export specifications.

The suspension of this activity for 2016 should have a direct impact on not only the revenue of traders, but also on the availability of industrial bananas on the Cameroonian marke

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15.Jan.2016

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Lazare Essimi Menye, former minister of Agriculture who appeared before investigators of the Special Criminal Court on the 13th and 27th of January 2015 was finally granted permission to leave the country for Europe on medical reason under police surveillance. The former IMF economist and statistician was evacuated to the American Hospital in Neuilly in France. Some reports have revealed that in the past days he has been spotted in the United States by many Cameroonians who have made public his destination. The minister now lives in 6304 Shiplett Blvd Bur. 

Essimi Menye Essimi, according to many local media reports has moved into an apartment and has applied for a position at the IMF. His medical evacuation has shaken the entire nation. Initially it was opposed by barons of the regime including a reluctant Biya. But a report from the Minister of Public Health,motivated the presidency to concerned to the medical evacuation.

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14.Jan.2016

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Lazare Essimi Menye, former minister of Agriculture who appeared before investigators of the Special Criminal Court on the 13th and 27th of January 2015 was finally granted permission to leave the country for Europe on medical reason under police surveillance. The former IMF economist and statistician was evacuated to the American Hospital in Neuilly in France. Some reports have revealed that in the past days he has been spotted in the United States by many Cameroonians who have made public his destination. The minister now lives in 6304 Shiplett Blvd Bur. 

Essimi Menye Essimi, according to many local media reports has moved into an apartment and has applied for a position at the IMF. His medical evacuation has shaken the entire nation. Initially it was opposed by barons of the regime including a reluctant Biya. But a report from the Minister of Public Health,motivated the presidency to concerned to the medical evacuation.

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14.Jan.2016

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Cameroon has arrested hundreds of people who allegedly attacked police stations in the capital Yaounde to protest human rights abuses, brutality and extortion. Huge stashes of locally made guns and explosives have been seized as the arrests continue.

Martin Claude Forsua, the most senior police official in Cameroon's center region said the approximately 500 youths already in police custody were arrested following tips from some residents of the capital city and information from intelligence services.

Forsua said police have been benefiting from the assistance of the population that has been denouncing suspects. He said it is intolerable to allow such a thing in a capital city like Yaounde and they will arrest all the youths who want to terrorize the city’s residents.

Most of the youths were arrested in night raids on their homes and street corners in their neighborhoods. Police say at least 100 of those detained have no identification documents.

Rights violations alleged

Trader Aristide Biloa, 40, whose younger brother was arrested, said more than 30 soldiers stormed and ransacked their Mokolo home on the night of January 9 without authorization.

Biloa said the arrests have been arbitrary and in violation of human rights. He said proper investigations should have been carried out to determine who the leaders of the group are before any arrests were made.

University of Yaounde law student Josue Penda said arresting the suspects will not solve what he calls an endemic problem in a country that has been suffering from Boko Haram terrorism threats. He said investigations should be conducted to see if the Boko Haram is extending its activities from Cameroon's northern border with Nigeria to the capital Yaounde.

Penda said the fact that some residents of Yaounde now keep guns in their houses means the police department is a corrupt accomplice and is not doing its job.  He said the government should investigate the origin of the weapons.

The arrests follow last Thursday's attacks by hundreds of disgruntled and armed Cameroonian young people on police stations in Mokolo, a popular market in Yaounde. The youths said they were against police brutality, extortion and other human rights abuses, but the police said the youths were looking for revenge after the death of a popular suspect who died in a shootout with the police.

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13.Jan.2016

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Cameroon has arrested hundreds of people who allegedly attacked police stations in the capital Yaounde to protest human rights abuses, brutality and extortion. Huge stashes of locally made guns and explosives have been seized as the arrests continue.

Martin Claude Forsua, the most senior police official in Cameroon's center region said the approximately 500 youths already in police custody were arrested following tips from some residents of the capital city and information from intelligence services.

Forsua said police have been benefiting from the assistance of the population that has been denouncing suspects. He said it is intolerable to allow such a thing in a capital city like Yaounde and they will arrest all the youths who want to terrorize the city’s residents.

Most of the youths were arrested in night raids on their homes and street corners in their neighborhoods. Police say at least 100 of those detained have no identification documents.

Rights violations alleged

Trader Aristide Biloa, 40, whose younger brother was arrested, said more than 30 soldiers stormed and ransacked their Mokolo home on the night of January 9 without authorization.

Biloa said the arrests have been arbitrary and in violation of human rights. He said proper investigations should have been carried out to determine who the leaders of the group are before any arrests were made.

University of Yaounde law student Josue Penda said arresting the suspects will not solve what he calls an endemic problem in a country that has been suffering from Boko Haram terrorism threats. He said investigations should be conducted to see if the Boko Haram is extending its activities from Cameroon's northern border with Nigeria to the capital Yaounde.

Penda said the fact that some residents of Yaounde now keep guns in their houses means the police department is a corrupt accomplice and is not doing its job.  He said the government should investigate the origin of the weapons.

The arrests follow last Thursday's attacks by hundreds of disgruntled and armed Cameroonian young people on police stations in Mokolo, a popular market in Yaounde. The youths said they were against police brutality, extortion and other human rights abuses, but the police said the youths were looking for revenge after the death of a popular suspect who died in a shootout with the police.

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13.Jan.2016

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