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The Federal Bureau of investigation has paid an uninvited visit to Cameroon pursuing cyber criminals.

Some 90 individuals have been arrested in the Center region, the towns of Bamenda, Douala and Kumba after Cameroon was spotted as one of the most graded countries involved in cyber criminality. The FBI is after some 512 individuals who have purportedly robbed 3000 people around the world of 4 billion Dollars and this is mostly carried out on the FACEBOOK social website. The FBI intends on arresting 602 individuals who are involved in this criminal activity over the National territory.

Cyber Criminality has been so popular amongst the youths these days mostly among the English speaking population of Cameroon and as such has attracted the attention of INTERPOL  who seek to curb this illegal activity around the world.

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07.Jul.2017

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A Dutch Court, June 24 slammed a ban on Fibois BV for illegal importation of timber from Cameroon.

The ban also borders on the non-compliance with the European Union Timber Regulation,EUTR.

Fibois BV was also faulted for negligence and non- compliance with EUTR in its transaction with a Cameroonian firm, Compagnie de Commerce et de Transport, CCT.

This was done following a complaint filed by Greenpeace against Fibois BV.

The court upheld a decision by NVWA to penalize Fibois by putting her timber products on a watch list.

Should they not comply with regulation, the timber importer will pay a fine of FCFA 1,170,000 for every cubic meter of wood.

Greenpeace has followed the logging activities of CCT for many years and exposed illegal practices plaguing the forestry sector in Cameroon in 2016.

However, the Cameroonian Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Philip NgoleNgwese, reacted to the Greenpeace report with a media offensive.

In an article published in several Cameroonian newspapers, the Minister claimed the information in the report was false and that the activities of all timber suppliers to CCT that were cited in the report were fully in compliance with the Cameroon Forestry laws.

“Greenpeace is vindicated by the court ruling against Fibois BV by the Dutch Competent Authority. It shows that the court stood by our meticulous report,” Eric Ini, Greenpeace Africa’s Forest Campaigner said.

“This ruling is a clear call to Minister Ngwese to instil the rule of law in the Cameroon forestry sector and sanction the likes of CCT accordingly,” Ini added.

“The Dutch court ruling against Fibios highlights lapses in credibility and control in supply chains that the Cameroonian Government can no longer afford to ignore. We hope Forestry and Wildlife officials in Cameroon will implement laws to bring sanity in the forestry sector.”

CCT has been supplying azombé timber from questionable sources in Cameroon to Fibois BV.

Despite NVWA warning in March 2015 and conditional penalty in 2016 to Fibios BV, CCT and the Cameroonian Forestry and Wildlife Ministry remained indifferent to concerns from the international market.

 They have been trading timber sourced from highly destructive logging operations, several of which were exposed to by those involved in illegal logging according to a Greenpeace report published in 2015.

Greenpeace traced the timber from CCT to many importers in Europe, including Fibois BV in Purmerend in the Netherlands.

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organisation with offices in over 40 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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07.Jul.2017

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Yesterday morning, in the Karenan locality of the extreme North Region of Cameroon, a business man, Alhadji Moussa and his family were kidnapped by well armed men.

These attackers, as revealed by eye witnesses were dressed in African Union Multinational mixed force attire and came in from Nigeria. The all-terrain vehicles which they used were painted with colours known to be used by Cameroon armed forces.

The operation was well planned such that, they spent just a few minutes to perpetuate the act. Before the forces of law and order could intervene, the men had disappeared.

No claim has been made for the attack yet, but the Boko Haram terrorist group are highly suspected, as they are the ones who have been instilling fear and terror in the indigenes of the Northern part of Cameroon all this while.

 

This comes after a military base was attacked a few days back at Homaka by the terrorist group, which left four people dead.

Shekau and his boys now want to go back to the method which they used to use before taking the suicide bombing approach. By then, they used to kidnap mostly foreigners who had come to Cameroon either for site seeing or for their businesses. There are notably the cases of French and Chinese citizens, on whom the terrorist Islamic sect has not had it light

    

 

 

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06.Jul.2017

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Cameroon’s Sarah Mbi Enow Anyang Agbor is now the Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology of the African Union Commission, AU.

According to a release signed by Dion Ngute Joseph, Minister Delegate in charge of Relations with the Commonwealth, Sarah Mbi Enow Anyang Agbor’s election into the AU on June 30, marks Cameroon’s return within the executive of the commission, six years after the death of Elisabeth Tankeu who served as Commissioner of Trade.

Sarah Mbi Enow Anyang Agbor was born on May 2, 1969 and holds a PhD in  English literature. Before her election in Addis Ababa, she held the post of Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of research, cooperation and relations with the business world at the University of Bamenda. She was a vital link in the enhancement of the teaching and learning process in Cameroon with her department showcasing several MOU’s signed for the University of Bamenda to mentor some private Higher Institutions of learning in barely five years since the University went operational.The faithful Catholic from Besonghabang, Manyu Division, South West Region features prominently among women who make the nation proud in leadership.

Her election, comes  barely few months after another Cameroonian woman, Vera Songwe was appointed to head the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

 

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05.Jul.2017

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Over 250 ex employees of the Cameroon shipyard industrial engineering company trooping in from Douala early this morning June 4th 2017 have taken hostage the minister of transport, Edgar Alain Mebengo.

Mr Mebengo and his staff have been blocked in their offices by the disgruntled workers.

These workers who are carrying banners with different messages calling on the minister to pay their  allowances were laid off in 2010 as part of reforms to reorganise the shipyard industrial zone.

The 1410 dismissed men and women are demanding payments amounting to over fcfa 4 billions as accrued unpaid dues for six years. 

A reliable source from the ministry told Cameroon Concord that last year when the workers staged the first strike action, the government reacted by disbursing funds to settle them, but why they are not yet paid till date is a question that only mr Mebengo, and his colleague, the finance minister can answer.

Frontrunners of the movement insisted they have only one objective this time around, that of cashing their money not sitting again for any negotiations as government officials who came to the scene have been proposing.

One of the leaders, Evans Nyembe who has worked with the shipyard industrial engineering company for nine years and expecting to be paid fcfa 10 millions, said enough is enough.. We are tired of speeches and round table dialogue with people who have no conscience and human feelings... If the transport minister does not react today, we are moving straight to the presidency and mr Biya must hear us..he lamented.


Today's strike comes at the heels of two other major strikes which took place in Yaounde last week staged by workers of the national printing press and patients with kidney distinctions who also blocked the Yaounde general hospital denouncing the constant breakdown of dialysis machines and lack of water to help evacuate waste from their systems.

"Cameroon is really sitting on a boiling volcano which can explode any moment". A politician reiterated.

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04.Jul.2017

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Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos returned to Barcelona on Monday on a "private visit", the government said, a month after the 74-year-old leader spent several weeks in the Spanish city receiving medical treatment.

At the time, private media reported that dos Santos, Angola's leader of the last 38 years, had suffered a stroke, although the government has declined to comment on his condition.

It did not say when he was scheduled to return from his latest trip.

Dos Santos, a Soviet-trained oil engineer and veteran of the guerrilla war against Portuguese rule, has presided over an economic boom in Africa's second-biggest oil producer since the end of a long civil war in 2002.

Several private media outlets said in May he was seriously ill. The government only confirmed the medical nature of his trip after sustained demands for information from the opposition UNITA party.

The southern African nation of 23 million people is due to hold a general election on Aug. 23 that is likely to see dos Santos replaced as state president by defence minister Joao Lorenco, 63.

However, dos Santos will remain leader of the ruling MPLA party, a position that many Angolans believe will allow him to exert considerable political influence behind the scenes should his health permit.

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04.Jul.2017

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