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The Wum Council is poised to grab the title of the cleanness municipality at the Menchum Divisional level, following the mobilization of the population to give their municipality a new facelift by making it the cleanness town in Cameroon.   The campaign it should be recalled, is aimed at demonstrating to the communities ,  the importance of ensuring proper hygiene and sanitation for health and safety, encourage the Village hygiene and sanitation groups to champion efforts to promote proper waste disposal, and to support the local council  by exhibiting in action ,  the value we attach to our various  communities.   This Wednesday June 29 th  2022, the population massively turned out from 8am to 12 noon to keep their homes, quarters and villages clean, not leaving out business premises. This new impetus found in the collaboration of the population, is a great sign that everyone loves a clean environment.   The National Hygiene and Sanitation Campai...

Le ministre des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises, de l’Économie Sociale et de l’Artisanat ( Minpmeesa) Achille Bassileken III a procédé, ce 27 juin, à Yaoundé à la remise des subventions aux lauréats de la première cuvée de la pépinière nationale pilote d’entrepreneur d’Edéa. Il était temps. Deux années se sont écoulées après avoir reçu leur parchemin de fin de  formation comptant pour la première cuvée de la pépinière nationale pilote d’entrepreneur d’Edéa. Les lauréats de cette première promotion ont reçu des subventions de l’Etat. C’était au cours de la double cérémonie de lancement de micro entreprise et de PME (MPME), et des remises des subventions aux lauréats pilote d’entreprise d’Edéa. C’est donc environ 10 jeunes qui ont bénéficiés de cet accompagnement gouvernemental pour s’installer à leur propre compte. Le ministre Achille Bassileken III,  s’est chargé de remettre à chacun sa côté part en fonction des differents projets soumis. Au total, c’est près de 100 millions d...

Muteff may be a small, little known village kaleidoscope, but things that happen there have unimaginable global dimensions. Situated off the jaws of Abuh valley in Fundong Subdivision, Boyo Division of the North West Region of Cameroon, the community, as a quarter in Abuh in the 60s, have lived together under a 'gentleman's agreement' that each time goats are slaughtered during burial ceremonies in Muteff quarter, their heads are eaten by the quarterhead in Muteff, rather than being sent to the village head of Abuh.  The ' gentleman's agreement' had lasted until Ghamnkoh left Muteff as quarter head to become village head of mainland Abuh in the 70s. He then, and, unilaterilly reneged on the "gentleman's agreement', by ordering all goat heads from the 'nchong" traditional fraternity be sent directly to him, no longer to quarter heads. Muteff could not bear such unilateralliness and after failed attempts to reestablish the gentleman's agr...

The 1 st  Assistant Senior Divisional Officer for Menchum, Demanou Fabrice , has officially launched the Divisional Clean-up Campaign Competition in Wum, Menchum’s Divisional Headquarters.   The Clean-up Campaign Competition was launched on the heels of the national competition of  "Clean Towns"  2022 edition  launched on    April 11 2022 in Bertoua by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Célestine Ketcha Courtès and  the Regional competition launched on June 14 2022  in Bamenda by the Secretary General at the North-West Governor’s office, Viang Mekala .       The launching ceremony brought together Divisional delegates, DOs, Mayors and stakeholders of  the hygiene and sanitation sector within Menchum Division.   It is worth noting that the launching is in prelude to preparations for World Habitat Day (WHD) 2022 of the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat). All municipalities within the ...

  To understand Samuel, let's revisit his first days  at FECAFOOT.   1) He ordered the gate into the offices  shutdown on late comers. Something unusual in the Cameroonian workforce. We all know how civil servants hardly show up for work  and those that do come many hours late and leave early. Eto'o to such nonchalant staffers certainly is a bully. Anyone who has worked outside of Cameroon especially  Europe or the United States knows that you get a paycheck for effective presence at work and productivity. Samuel Eto'o was introducing a work ethic to a workforce unaccustomed to  being held accountable. 2) Samuel Eto'o took head-on, the Minister of Sports who has been used to giving orders to FECAFOOT and people go along to get along. The  new FECAFOOT boss reminded  the Minister that appointing a national coach falls squarely within  his competence. I am sure young Eto'o was  being disrespectful in the eyes of many. We recall that o...

Brutal murder of CPDM militant in Jakiri: Must civilians match on May 20? Images of the lifeless body of one Lukong Francis, identified as a militant of the ruling CPDM Party, who marched last May 20, 2022, in Jakiri, Bui Division, North West of Cameroon, had since gone viral on social media. It has widely been reported suspected separatist fighters who had embargoed such celebrations in the 'disputed territories' of the  North West and South West Regions, carried out the act.  The part about it that still hungers an explanation, is the fact that his killers didn't only end at eliminating him but went further to drag the lifeless body along roadsides to the glare of cameras. The Rome Statutes on the rules of war (and especially the need to protect civilians) forbids any further tormenting of dead bodies during conflict. Since the morphing of the current conflict from bare-hand protests to weaponized killings, Rev. Jini Edward, Senior Pastor of the Nkwen Baptist Church, Bame...

'As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods. They kill us for their sports.' Nothing can ever begin to explain the senseless killing of nine unarmed civilians on the night of June 1, 2022 in Missong, a village near Zhoa in Fungom Subdivision, Menchum Division of the North West Region, than the above declaration by Gloucester in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. A statement from the spokesman of Cameroon's Ministry of Defense, Col. Atonfack Cyril, attributes the macabre incident to gross misjudgment by some four elements of Cameroon's elite forces who, fearing their colleague might have fallen into wrong hands, launched a ferocious search and rescue party on that fateful day. The statement furthered that when the military came across some villagers who seemed uncooperative, (and fearing for their own lives), they disproportionately rained bullets on them. This resulted in nine deaths; four women, four men, and an 18- year old girl. A baby of 12 months old who was a...

The details may be sketchy. But Senator Regina Mundi was abducted for a cause and rescued for a cost. A lot of ink has flown since this lone North West CPDM politbureau member and grandmother of 80 was announced rescued by Cameroon's Defense and Security forces on May 30, 2022 in Ashong-Batibo after being abducted by separatist fighters last April 30, 2022 in Foncha Street-Bamenda. While Cameroon's military is using this rare successful rescue operation to boost its image and advertise its professionalism, the separatist ADF forces of Dr. Cho Ayaba try to fight off persistent rumours of ransom taking and blame blacklegs for leaking out their location to regular forces. Kidnapped for a cause; that of the autonomy of the two English-Speaking regions of Cameroon, Senator Regina Mundi was rescued at a huge cost; that of ensuring Cameroon remains one. No doubt that the monetary value of the military operation, from costly intelligence-gathering (human and satellite), through m...