* Newstin.com is for sale! * After achieving our strategic milestone, we are offering for sale: Newstin.com and all 14 related domains featuring 1 million unique visitors per month + continuously updated news database of 37 million articles in 12 world languages from 166,000 global and weighted sources + 2.1 billion metadata * To seize this unique chance, contact invest@newstin.com. * Newstin.com is for sale! *

Central Africa

Cameroon: World Financial Crisis May Have Repercussions in Cemac - Expert

An Economist cum Lecturer at the University of Yaounde II, Prof. Fondoh Sikod, has said the current world financial crisis could stir indirect repercussions on the countries of the Central African Economic and Monetary...

Nigeria: Treating Malaria Indeed

Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Vanguard The 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly discussed malaria, the acclaimed scourge in the tropics. The United Nations itself set 2015 -- seven years hence - as the year...

Cameroon: 15 550 Community Health Workers to Reinforce Malaria Fight

Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Victorine Biy Yongka Some 15, 550 community health workers have been trained to intensify the fight against malaria through a door-to-door sensitisation and treatment of simple malaria cases....

Africa: Born Again Whiteman - From Chains to Change - the Role of African Americans in Africa

The term "African American" is something of a contradiction, like "military intelligence." America gives us the short end, and most of us aren't informed enough about Africa in the past or present to know what we're looking up...

Cameroon: Ayamba, 23 SCNC Activists Detained, Tortured

Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Elvis Tah The Chairman of the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, Chief Ayamba Ette Otun, 82, and 23 other activists were Monday, October 6, arrested and detained in Tiko. A few of them...

Cameroon: Media Women Resolve to Combat Gender Injustice

Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Esther Manga and Crepine Makanaky* Female media practitioners in the Southwest Province have resolved to combat gender injustice in media houses. Over 25 female journalists made the decision at...

Cameroon: Limbe Bank Robbery Victim Dies

Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Elvis Tah Elback Assama Aboh, 20, one of the four victims shot during the bank robbery in Limbe on Sunday, September 28, died Sunday, October 5, at the Douala General Hospital. Rumours had...

Cameroon: Limbe Bank Robbers About to Be Netted

Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Francis Tim Mbom Two security sources have hinted The Post that detectives are fast closing in on the gangsters who attacked four banks in Limbe on Sunday, September 28 and robbed one of some...

Cameroon: Fire Consumes Offices of Military Generals

Some offices of a three-storey building hosting certain services of the Defence Ministry such as the general control of the army, inspection general of the army and military logistical service, was October 7 consumed by fire.

Cameroon: Musinga Drama Group Bounces Back

Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Azore Opio After hibernating for 11 years, the Musinga Drama Group International has relaunched production with a series of breathtaking plays. The shows kicked off on October 4 at Alliance...