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Stakeholders involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases have resolved to double efforts to ensure the rate of new infections reduce by 60 percent as well as curb HIV –related mortality by 70 percent and improve on the quality of life of persons living with the disease. Mr. Marceliout Djunang, Rep. Governor, NWR They took the resolute commitment at the end of a three-day  workshop that held from the 26 to the 28 of January 2023 with the aim of consolidating the evaluation of the HIV/AIDS National Strategic Plan (NSP), 2021-2023. This workshop was chaired by the Representative of the Governor of the North-West Region, Mr. Marcelious Djounant, Head of Economic, Social and Cultural Affairs Division, at the Northwest Governor's Office.  Statistics presented at the workshop show HIV remains a public health problem in Cameroon, with 2.7% of the population infected. In the Northwest  region 4% of the population is HIV infected. Generally,  women have a h

Members of the SDF family, Brothers and Sisters of this country. I stand here to wish you people a happy new year. When i say happy, it's because we deserve to be happy. But if we look at ourselves as Cameroonians especially those from the Northwest and Southwest, are we really happy? So many have lost their loved ones, we can't live at peace and at ease in our own hometowns. So many people have taken refuge in Mbouda, Bafoussam, Douala away from their own hometowns and cannot come home to feel at home. Their properties have been destroyed. In the early days of this struggle, when I left here going to the farm, i went through Boyo and grass had covered the main roads because vehicles were not passing, vehicles were destroyed, so many things took place that many did not feel safe and at ease in their homes.  But as we're approaching the year 2023, I want to thank God that some of us are still alive, those that are dead, are dead and gone but we have to continue. I've alw

Twenty-nine brand new Yamaha 100 motorbikes were handed over to 29 public, private and faith-based health facilities in the Northwest on December 23, 2022. As a result of Minsante-GAVI cooperation, this equipment aims at improving vaccination services and most importantly to reinforce the outreach strategies of health centers in the community. In a region where vaccination performance has been significantly affected by six years of socio-political, humanitarian and security crisis, it was timely that such an initiative was undertaken to boost performance. The handing over ceremony was presided over by the Northwest Regional Health boss, Dr Che Soh Kingsley. He urged the beneficiaries to make good use of the equipment and that the differences in coverage should be felt in the early months of the coming year 2023. En date du 23 Décembre 2022, ce sont 29 motos flambant neuves marque Yamaha 100 qui ont été remises à 29 structures de santé publiques, privée et confessionnelles dans le Nord-

The Global Initiative for Digital Inclusion and Communication (GIDICOM) has trained some Bamenda base journalists and CSO members under the umbrella of the Cameroon Community Media Network on Digital Literacy, particularly ,  information verification and Online advocacy. The training saw the participants trained and encouraged to be Up standers and not By standers, encouraging them to put in their best to fight Fake News where ever they see it on the different META platforms (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and others). This participant and CCMN member, Pechuqui Laurata, says   ”I have better understood information verification, getting to know that it is ,  not as tedious and time consuming as one may think .   A lso ,  advocacy is not necessarily to be done by very big organizations alone, as an individual ,  I can start a harsh-tag  and have my friends and I  change something in our community…” To the coordinator of GIDICOM Miss Pedmia Shatu, she expects the participants in her words

  Two people have died  and about 20 houses swept off  following a landslide caused by torrential rainfall and flooding in Tiben, Widikum , according  Andoh Stanislaus,  Mayor of Widikum . According to the Mayor, a t least two women have lost their lives  in a village called Ekah located at about 10km from Widikum, as two houses were  swept.  The Mayor added that work is ongoing to determine the actual extend of the damage caused. The incident also disrupted traffic flow along the trans African high way that links Cameroon and the Federal Republic of Nigeria passing through Widikum in Momo Division. Mayor Stanislaus is pleading on persons of goodwill to assist the hundreds of people currently stranded after heavy rains of August 11 in Widikum. By Mbuh Stella in Bamenda Photo Credit: Mbuh Stella

Nji Ignatius is Bamenda-based journalist working for one of Cameroon's leading weeklies, Eden newspaper. He just returned from Douala after a business trip. He complains they arrived the Matazem border at 4a.m and only succeeded in filing past the two security cordons after a four hours delay. Hyperbolically , that's almost the amount of time Africans trying to cross the Mexican border into the United States, take.   Since the outbreak of the conflict in the two English Speaking Regions, Defense Ministry Officials erected stiff security belts on both sides of the Matazem crossing. Vehicles arriving from East Cameroon are obliged to wait until 6.30a.m before security officials who are usually not in a hurry, begin screening from one passenger to the other and from one bus to another.   Come to think of the fact that of the six accredited travel agencies plying the Bamenda- Yaoundé , Bamenda-Douala, and Bamenda-Buea/Limbe roads, each of them loads at least three full-to-the-brim

    In addition to its Peace Journalism and conflict transformation activities on the ground, the Cameroon Community Media Network, CCMN Littoral chapter, has made training, one of its strengths. To the CCMN Littoral Regional Coordinator, Regina Liengu Etaka Esong , promoting peace also means educating young people and training actors in the field.  This is because the audience is diverse, including actors belonging to the various stakeholders of a given conflict. Under these circumstances, the training venue becomes a real mediation space where the participants, in addition to acquiring technical knowledge, get to know each other, to exchange and to make joint analyses.      Far from their usual capacity building modules, members were drilled on  on corporate social responsibility CSR. the reason for the choice of this module is simply because, as the CCMN Regional Coordinator for the Littoral puts it;    "We find our selves in a community whereby most companies do not respect th

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 Division will compete among  themselves. The competition has equ

The PCC National Training Chaplain, Rev. Dr. Mih Clement Kum has begun training Pastors of the Menchum Presbytery on the important role of chaplaincy, given that in Menchum Presbytery, chaplaincy programs are very timid. Cross section of Pastors at the refresher course. This is the focus of a four-day refresher course which started on Wednesday March 30th 2022 at the Women's hall of PC Naikom in Menchum Presbytery. It will end on Saturday April 2nd 2022. The interest, the National Training Chaplain says, is to enable PCC Pastors in Menchum Presbytery to revamp chaplaincy programs that have gone comatose.                                So, this refresher course is aimed at bringing back the attention of Pastors to what they often neglect after they are given their charge. It should be recalled that in the seminary, focus is more on the general evangelization whereas there are specific things to do when it comes to chaplaincy. The National Training Chaplain, Rev. Dr. Mih Clement Kum