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HE Paul Biya President of The Republic of Cameroon Cameroon's Head of State, President Paul Biya has promised tougher days for Non-State Armed Group seeking to make of the country’s North West and South West Regions an independent country christened Ambazonia. Speaking in a televised address to the nation Tuesday, December 31, 2019, President Paul Biya said the country’s military will fight in all professionalism to protect all citizens. “For those who persist in going down the wrong road   and continue to use violence, we will have no other choice than to combat them in order to protect all our fellow citizens. Our Defence and Security Forces will, once again, perform their duty with restraint, but without weakness. I wish to reassure them of my full support and high esteem,” Biya warned. He however agreed that without a doubt, the security situation in the North West and South West regions is one of the most urgent problems at the moment. He regrett...

 The Governor of the North west Region H.E Adolphe Lele Lafrique on Tuesday December 31, 2019 handed over to IDPs in Bamenda and some Nursing mothers at the Bamenda Regional hospital the gift from presidential couple.  Tuesday December 31, the last day in the year 2019, was a very a busy day for the chief Executive Officer of the Region Adolphe Lele Lafrique as move around the town to distribute the presidential gift of relief materials to some internally displaced persons. The first stop for the distribution was at the esplanade of the Governor's office, here about a thousand families had gathered to received the gift from the president of the Republic . The first 300 families out of the 40,000 families who are expected to benefit from the gift in Region, where served by the Governor. At the end of the exercise, the Governor made the following remark;   "I have started giving out the special gift from the Presidential couple to the IDPs in the North We...

His Holiness Pope Francis Ahead of New year day celebrations, the head of the Roman Catholic church, His Holiness Pope Francis, releases a message of peace as the world observes the 53rd WORLD DAY OF PEACE under the theme; " PEACE AS A JOURNEY OF HOPE: DIALOGUE, RECONCILIATION AND ECOLOGICAL CONVERSION "    1. Peace, a journey of hope in the face of obstacles and trial   Peace is a great and precious value, the object of our hope and the aspiration of the entire human family. As a human attitude, our hope for peace is marked by an existential tension that makes it possible for the present, with all its difficulties, to be “lived and accepted if it leads towards a goal, if we can be sure of this goal, and if this goal is great enough to justify the effort of the journey”.[1] Hope is thus the virtue that inspires us and keeps us moving forward, even when obstacles seem insurmountable.  Our human community bears, in its memory ...

The Cost of stopping the war could be only a Bold Point Pen of FCFA 200 and a signature but the continuous fighting has led to many displaced and humanitarian organizations involved and even in need of more aid relief materials. In just one week, between December 9 and 15, the UN Humanitarian Coordination Office in Cameroon registered over 5000 Internally Displaced Persons who fled from military invasion. President Paul Biya who has the knife and the yam to end the war has offered 100 trucks packed with relief materials such as sanitary kits, bedding equipment, and foodstuff to the internally Displaced Persons in the Northwest and Southwest regions. It comes a few days after the release of UN Humanitarian Coordination office OCHA Cameroon which sent a distress call for more financing projects. OCHA Cameroon said the conflict in Cameroon is the least funded so far in Africa. OCHA REPORTS THAT MASSIVE DISPLACEMENT IN THE NORTHWEST REGION BETWEEN DECEMBER 9-15 WA...

By Amamboh Carrey-Pride "The security of every journalist should come first for you cannot be a reporter in the grave" . This statement was  made by Fonyuy Kiven Frankline, the information officer at the United Nations for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, on December 27 2019 at Ntamulung church center hall as he trained peace journalists in Bamenda on humanitarian reporting and Security/safety of journalists. Organized by the Cameroon community media Network CCMN Northwest chapter, mr Funyuy Kiven trained the journalists present,  on the importance of always taking into consideration, your safety and security, before embarking on any mission. He mentioned for example that " in a crisis zone as the North west region, a journalist should not be part of a military convoy" .  He equally called on female journalists to prevent sexual violence on the field by putting on thicker clothes and equally knowing the customs of the society wh...

The year 2020 will see a wave of celebrations in Africa among 17 countries that gained their independence in 1960. The three-year conflict between anglophone separatists and security forces has claimed more than 3,000 lives But in Cameroon, the first country in the jubilee line, the mood among many people is sour. The highly diverse central-western state was traditionally viewed as one of the most stable in Africa. But today, a combination of conflict, political tension and economic uncertainty are putting the country through one of its most wrenching periods since it decolonised from France on January 1, 1960. "We're not thinking about the 60th anniversary. We just accept it," said David Fomuso, a father of three, in an impoverished district of Douala, Cameroon's oil hub. "If there hadn't been the crisis, I would be partying right now." Two years ago, Fomuso and his family fled his village in western Cameroon where the sec...

By Stephen Ojang None is perfect but we all are striving towards perfetion. We are all aspiring to be like Jesus Christ. This aspiration is a call for our soul to be filled with peace and love. Embedded with strong love that defeats hatred, she has been strengthened to overcome adversities.  From the inception of her project, the Community Impact for Africa CIfA, she was filled with courage and youthful exuberance, to lift up the downtrodden. It's therefore no doubt that her choice fell on the elderly, women and youths. As a golden fish that has no hiding place, Ngwanwi Lidwina Munting was distinguished by Young Citizens Contributing Positively, YOCICOPO for her efforts as a social worker and founder of CIfA.  Exemplary, righteous and a virtuous woman, these rare qualities of this young and dynamic young lady caught the eyes of the jury of the 4th edition of the YOCICOPO Awards. Ojslim media celebrates her today not only because of her ability to ...