Cameroon

Court Urged to Halt Handover of Bakassi

allafrica.com     Jul 18, 2008   3 related          

Posted to the web 18 July 2008 Lagos Eight prominent indigenes of Bakassi yesterday asked a Federal High Court Abuja to halt the August 14 final cession of the oil-rich peninsular to Cameroon. Respondents to the suit are...                    

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Saturday News Hits the Stands in Cameroon

rap21.org     Jul 18, 2008          

Beginning last month, Cameroonian newspaper readers were for the first time able to read a daily on a Saturday. On 17 June, Haman Mana, editor and founder of the private daily Le Jour, launched a full-colour Saturday edition.                    

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Cameroon: Biya Pays Price of Arrogance, Economic Delinquency

allafrica.com     Jul 17, 2008   3 related          

Once upon a time, a great wrestler, who had vanquished all challengers on earth, decided to shift battle ground to the land of spirits. There he knocked down all adversaries. Some of the spirits he crushed had ten heads.                    

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Cameroon: Varsity Lecturers Announce Another Strike Action

allafrica.com     Jul 17, 2008   1 related          

Posted to the web 17 July 2008 Ernest Sumelong The coming academic year will start with a strike action by lecturers of State Universities in Cameroon, the National Union of Teachers of Higher Education, with French acronym,...                    

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Cameroon: Tribute to Albert Mukong - the Innocent Prisoner

allafrica.com     Jul 17, 2008   1 related          

Posted to the web 17 July 2008 Poubom Lamy Ney Is there anything or anybody like an innocent prisoner? Albert Mukong has largely contributed to what we may call carceral literature: the iron interviewing of people arrested and...                    

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Cameroon: Snapshot - the Travails of Southern Cameroons

allafrica.com     Jul 17, 2008   1 related          

At a gathering of friends in Buea last weekend, one member of the group broached the idea about the need to convene another All Anglophone Conference, AAC, along the lines of AAC I in Buea in 1993 and AAC II in Bamenda in 1994.                    

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Cameroon: U.S. Embassy's Desire is to Promote Professionalism in Journalism - Diplomat

allafrica.com     Jul 17, 2008   1 related          

Posted to the web 17 July 2008 Joe Dinga Pefok The Counsellor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Cameroon, Lonnie Kelly Jr, has said the Embassy assists some journalism associations in the country in order to promote...                    

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Cameroon: Eduarts Awards Slated July 18

allafrica.com     Jul 17, 2008   1 related          

Posted to the web 17 July 2008 Walter Wilson Nana The maiden EduArts Literature Awards, an initiative of Dr. Joyce Ashuntantang, Lecturer at the University of Connecticut, USA, will take place on Friday, July 18, at the Capitol...                    

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Cameroon: Hawkers Threatened As Holidaymakers Invade Sector

allafrica.com     Jul 17, 2008   1 related          

Posted to the web 17 July 2008 Victorine Biy Yongka Yaounde is witnessing a massive increase in the number of hawkers due to the influx of holiday makers into the city. This situation is rendering business difficult for...                    

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Cameroon: Prisoner Petitions Presidency

allafrica.com     Jul 17, 2008   1 related          

A prisoner at the Bamenda Central Prison recently wrote a petition to the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, blaming the Bamenda Judicial authorities for depriving him of the right to enjoy Presidential Clemency.                    

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