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Ayuk Besong Anne-Chantal is a communications specialist and a Global Sickle Cell Disease advocate. She is a mother. She lives with Sickle Cell Disease. In this exclusive interview, Ayuk Besong elaborates on the significance and theme of World Sickle Cell Day celebrated on June 19, 2024. She also talks on her story with Sickle Cell Disease and her inspiring journey into the global sphere. She equally drums support to all sickle cell patients globally. Read On…….. Ayuk Besong Anne-Chantal, Global Sickle Cell Ambassador, Receives State DecorationWhy do we celebrate World Sickle Cell Day? June 19 is marked as World Sickle…

The Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, through the Programme for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, South West Region (PSMNRSWR), supported by the German Cooperation, has developed a “Guide to the Involvement of Local Communities in the Management of Protected Areas”. The 20 page guide was launched by the Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Jules Doret Ndongo, in Limbe, June 27, 2024. The Minister in its preface, disclosed that the document aims at defining the role played by local communities as well as their involvement in the planning and decision-making process with regards to the management of protected areas.…

The Divisional Delegate of Social Affairs, MINAS, Meme Division, South West Region, Mujingni Irene Mubat épse Manga has diagnosed some bottlenecks to school enrollment in Cameroon. Mujingni was speaking on June 20, on the occasion of the celebration of the 34th edition of the International Day of the African Child at the Kumba City Banquet Hall, under the theme; “Education for All Children in Africa: The Time is Now”. She revealed that according to the Analytical Report of the 2021-2022 school census data, the pre-school rate was 39.7% and school enrollment was 119.2% in the primary cycle in Cameroon. She…

Hundreds of mourners have accompanied the Mayor of Bangem Council, Ekungwe Kang Christopher to bury her 89 year old mother, Mama Munge Cecilia Ekungwe in Nyan village, Bangem Sub Division, Kupe Muanenguba Division. The funeral ceremony took place on June 22, 2024 at the Mayor’s residence in Nyan. In his homily at the funeral service from Ecclesiastic 3: 9 -11, Rev. Fr. Joseph Ekiti Nokwe, Parish Priest of Ikassa Parish, Kumba Diocess described Late Mama Munge as a gentle, humble and kind mother. He told mourners to emulate such character, serve God with all their hearts and to make heaven…

Mutual for the Promotion of Saving and Investment Credit, MUPECI, a micro finance organization attached to CAMCCUL, has opened a branch in Bangem. This took place during a sensitization meeting with farmers at the Bangem Council Hall, June 19, 2024. Addressing farmers in the hall, the President of Bangem Farmers’ Cooperative, BAFCOOP, Henry Nzuobontane, who lobbied for the MUPECI project, disclosed that the coming of the micro finance institution to Bangem is the best thing that has happened to farmers. He announced that this is a poverty alleviation scheme that all farmers in the sub division must embrace because it…

The Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Lives Savers Foundation, LISAF, Rev. Akisseh Makoge Ernest, has advocated for the abolition of fee drive in schools, for the psychological wellbeing of pupils and students. The CEO was speaking in Tombel, June 15, 2024 on the occasion of the celebration of the Day of the African Child in Tombel, organized by LISAF. He recalled that the conference of Heads of States of the Organization of African Unity adopted in 1990, a resolution for the celebration of the “Day of the African Child” (DAC) to commemorate the massacre of students in SOWETO in 1976,…

Some eighty one pupils and students from eleven schools in Nninong Clan, Bangem Sub Division, Kupe Muanenguba Division, have received financial packages in a joint excellence award organized by the Cameroon Centre for Peace Research and Initiative, CAMPEACI and Government Secondary School, GSS Nninong. The award ceremony was organized in commemoration of the International Day of the African Child at the Summa Cum Laude Information and Learning Resource Centre Ekol, Muebah-Nninong on June 16, 2024. This year’s celebration took place under the theme, “Education for All Children in Africa: The Time is Now”. The schools that benefitted from the award…

The TERFEL-ASBEC Foundation for Gender Development and Peace, TAFGEDEP, has sensitized and donated menstrual kits to students in Tombel. The sensitization campaign to secondary schools took place on May 28, 2024 as part of activities to commemorate the International Day of Menstrual Hygiene, under the theme, “Together for a Period Friendly World”. Addressing students in various schools, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TAFGEDEP, Dr. Ngome nee Felicia Munge Etape said menstruation is an important factor in the life of a woman and therefore menstruation should be considered as a woman’s pride and not a sigma. She outlined the…

Lives Savers Foundation, LISAF has intensified preparations ahead of the celebration of the 34th edition of the Day of the African Child in Tombel, Kupe Muanenguba Division, South West Region, with the award of prizes to meritorious children. The ceremony that has been programmed for June 15, 2024 , will be under the patronage of the Divisional Delegate of Social Affairs, MINAS, Kupe Muanenguba, Etaka Hannah.  The theme of this year’s celebration is placed under the theme, “Education for All Children in Africa: The Time is Now”. According to the Executive Director of LISAF, Rev. Akisseh Makoge Ernest, they are…

The Cameroon Centre for Peace, Research and Initiative, CAMPEACI and Government Secondary School, GSS Muebah-Nninong, are set to celebrate the 34th edition of the day of the African Child. The ceremony that has been programmed for June 16, 2024 will take place under the theme, “Education for All Children in Africa: The Time is Now”, at the Summa Cum Laude Information and Learning Centre, Ekol-Muebah-Nninong. Speaking to The Ultimate, the Coordinator and Co-founder of CAMPEACI, A. D. Esembeson Abesum disclosed that they are organizing a thanksgiving service at Presbyterian Church, PC Muebah Parish to thank God for divine protection over…