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Public transport in Manyu division has virtually come to a standstill as angry drivers there have grounded their vehicles to protest the poor state of roads in the area.

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Littoral Governor Fai Yengo Francis has warned professional drivers to desist from participating in the so-called Week of Martyrs organised by opposition groups in memory of the scores of people killed during the February 2008 uprising.

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Despite Cameroon’s diverse agriculture potentials, it is increasingly dependent on imports to feed its growing population.  Latest statistics from sundry sources indicate a rise in imports of cereals and fish last year compared to 2010.

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The minister of transport has threatened unspecified reprisals if engineers erecting maintenance and repair units at the Limbe Shipyard fail to accomplish their tasks in a month.

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Plans to fit the Central Africa sub-region with a road link stretching from Ouesso in northern Congo [Brazzaville] to Sangmelima in Cameroon and then onwards to Gabon, the Central African Republic and Chad are becoming progressively tangible.

 

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This cable was written the day after Cameroonians went to the polls to elect a new parliament and municipal counsellors in July 2007.

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Cameroon has taken the unusual step to request international assistance to feed its people purportedly affected by drought, the Inter Press Agency (IPS) has reported.

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Cameroon is on track to realise its goal to significantly increase gold production as new gold deposits have been identified in different parts of the country, including in the South West and North West Regions.

 

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Thousands of students who expected to begin school in the newly created University of Bamenda (UNIBA) this year are now stranded at home as the institution is yet to open its doors.
 

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The University of Camerino, UNICAM, in Italy has built, equipped and handed over to the management of a Buea-based primary school christened, United Action for Children, UAC, a modern library.
 

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A United Nations group has advised the state of Cameroon to compensate iconic artiste Lapiro de Mbanga who was detained in 2008 for criticising Paul Biya’s life presidency manoeuvres.

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Business /Sports

 

The Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States, CEMAC has decided to break ties with South African Airways, SSA, as strategic partner towards the setting up of a sub-regional carrier, Air CEMAC. 

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Sarah Liengu Etonge may have emerged a distant fourth at the 17th edition of the Mt Cameroon Race of Hope staged in the South West regional capital Buea at the weekend.  But the 51-year-old still has something special to write home about.

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UK researchers have discovered how the drugs that are currently used to treat sleeping sickness work at the molecular level, potentially opening the way to tackling growing resistance to the drugs.

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Athletes from Cameroon’s hilly North West region have re-emphasized their extending dominion at the Mt Cameroon Race of Hope.  Godlove Gabsibuin and Yvonne Ngwanya outfoxed the other 600 local and foreign contestants to emerge winners, in the male and female categories respectively, of the 17th edition of the backbreaking footrace.
 

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Future generations in Cameroon’s northern regions may end up relying only on history and pictures as a reminder that the region once harbored elephants. 

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The National Vice President of Cameroon Athletics Federation, Emmanuel Motomby Mbome, who doubles as the President of the Southwest Regional League of Athletics has announced that some blind people will be part of this weekend’s Race of Hope in Buea.

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The phenomenon of people collapsing and abruptly giving up the ghost has been steadily escalating throughout Cameroon in recent years.

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Op-ed/ Sports / News

 

Percipients opine Cameroon is land of lofty ideas.  But they usually quickly regret that when such don’t quickly breakdown from myopia, they end up entangled in graft and ineffectiveness.   One shining example is the Informal Sector Support Program, abridged PIASSI in French.

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Transport Minister Robert Nkili believes this measure will curb bribe-taking by traffic police and gendarmes

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We learnt at the end of last week from international media that Cameroon was facing severe food shortages due to a prolonged drought in the north of the country.

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The expected change of trends at the 17th edition of the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope, which took place in Buea, Saturday, February 18 did not happen.

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Individuals fattening their wallets and bank accounts by shaving off years from the real ages of footballers across Cameroon are in for troubled times if the FA makes good its intention of eradicating the splaying image-tarnishing phenomenon.

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This unclassified cable was written in 2007, one year after Cameroon reached the completion point of the HIPC Initiative. It was written during the tenure of Ambassador Neils Marquardt

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*Sanctioned Eto’o and Enow Eyong in the cold

Indomitable Lions coach Denis Lavagne has published his list of players to take part in first round preliminaries in view of the Africa Cup of Nations to take place next year in South Africa, leaving out captain Samuel Eto’o and his vice Eyong Enow Tarkang who were sanctioned by the FA in December last year.

 

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A British judge,  Holly Scott Mason, who worked  at the International Criminal Tribunal  for Rwanda (ICTR) has cautioned Cameroonians never to  interfere with human rights until it is absolutely necessary  as “ anything more than this in not justifiable”.
 

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From a purely superficial standpoint, the South West regional capital Buea, does not resemble a locality readying to host an event of international standing.

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