Author: Abungha Joy Valene

The financing of the activity of the National Refining Company (Sonara) in 2022, the state of negotiations on non-bank cross-debted debts, the situation of the cross-debted debts of the tax authorities and other public entities, its financial viability or the implementation of the government’s guidelines were discussed with the IMF team staying in Cameroon, within the framework of the 4th review of the government’s economic and financial program supported by the Extended Credit Facility and the Expanded Credit Facility. The fact that this file is one of the topics to be discussed is of the greatest concern to the Ministry…

Emmanuel Wembe left many people in Bafoussam surprised by his ability to transform a two-seater motorcycle into a ten-seater machine. The 35-year-old man said he had no choice, given the suffering he endured and the discomfort he felt in transporting farmers to remote areas by motorcycle. “With these motorcycles, we can go to places where cars can’t go. It’s all the easier because motorcycles can carry up to 10 people,” Emmanuel Wembe discloses. “I have already transported passengers to the farm and it was too stressful. I then thought about how to increase the length of the bike. I did…

A workshop organized by the Defyhatenow Civic Watch in Douala on May 4, 2023 was an opportunity to ask online content creators to review the effects of their content before publication. The facilitators who spoke during the workshop said that many media professionals found themselves spreading hate speech, sometimes without knowing it, because they did not take the time to verify the facts or think about the effects. Kinang Derick Fai, conflict research coordinator and administrative coordinator of Defyhatenow, said that the Douala session aimed to bring together media professionals so that they could talk about responsible use of social…

Stakeholders involved in the Advocacy for Comprehensive Abortion Care, ACAC project, have taken a commitment on May 3rd to work to reduce maternal mortality and disabilities linked to unsafe abortions, and also to step up their  advocacy for safe abortion accesses across the national territory for eligible cases. This took place during a ceremony to launch the extension of the ACAC project in Yaoundé. The project has been designed as  a four-year flagship program being implemented by the Society of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians of Cameroon, SOGOC. Addressing ACAC stakeholders at the launching on behalf of SOGOC president, the Secretary General…

13,928 tons, this is the total amount of banana that Cameroon exported during the month of April 2023, according to data compiled by the Banana Association of Cameroon (Assobacam). Thus said, the Plantations du haut Penja (PHP) exported 11,336 tons, the Cameroon development corporation (CDC) 1,803 tons and the Boh Plantations (B PL) 789 tons. Compared to April 2022 when the same operators had exported 18,247 tons of bananas, there is a decrease of around 4,319 tons (23.66%). In detail, this decline is accentuated at PHP, which has 11,336 tons exported in April 2023 compared to 15,030 tons in April…

Journalists have become the new targets in Cameroon, especially in the restive Anglophone regions of the country. Press amen and women in the North West and South West Regions are in deep distress after a colleague was shot dead at the Che Street neighborhood in Bamenda. On Sunday May, 7th. The young, intelligent and vibrant Anye Nde Nsoh was a bureau chief of “the Advocate” newspaper,reporter for an online news site “The Observer” and a sport journalist. Though the circumstances surrounding his painful exit remains unclear, sources say they heard gun shots but could not explain what exactly happened. Unfortunately,…

This is the substance of a strike notice filed on April 25 with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Minader). Employees of the Cameroon development corporation (CDC) are in ” Peaceful Labour Day” mode. This is a grumbling movement scheduled for May 1 to 10, 2023. Launched by three workers’ unions in the agri-food society, this strike aims to demand more safety for workers, the payment of 28 months of salary arrears and the appointment of a workers’ representative on the CDC’s board of directors. CDC employees are preferred targets of separatists activities in the Southwest region, where the…

According to a report published Tuesday evening by the Centre for Coordination of Public Health Emergency Operations (CCOUSP), already 6 health districts in the Central Region are on cholera epidemic alert. Cholera is on the rise in the Centre, more precisely in the city of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. In the period from March 27 to April 14, 2023, four new health districts were reported to be in an epidemic. These are the health districts of the Green City and Djoungolo in Yaoundé, as well as those of Mfou and Obala. According to the figures revealed by the CCOUSP,…

The Minister of Communication (Mincom),René Emmanuel Sadi, addressed members of the press on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day celebrated on May 3rd. Although plural, the Cameroonian press struggles to respect the ethics and deontology of the journalism profession according to Mincom. “Unfortunately, it is clear that, in well, In some cases, our media professionals are quite often at odds with ethics and deontology (…) It is undeniable that such a deficiency is likely to discredit the press, thus depriving it of the fulness of this essential function that is its own, and which makes it, a compass…

The inhabitants of a neighborhood, located in Nanga-Eboko, a city in Central Cameroon, still have to understand the events that led a man to beat his 28-year-old wife to death. It is reported that 28-year-old Mireille Zanga quarrelled with her partner on Tuesday, April 23 in a snack bar. The next day, the couple fought at home. “When he entered the house, he held the lady and began to hit her brutally. She fell and fainted. It was then that we realised that something was wrong and that we rushed to the scene, “said a source. The source also revealed…