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Mme Adah Mbah Women Peace builders within the North West Region have   strengthened their capacity in Meditation and Peace Building in amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic and crisis rocking the region. This was the outcome of a two day workshop on advancing women’s rights in response to community mediation and peace building processes with the hope of shifting the advocacy of women mediators in communities. The Workshop was organized by Mother of Hope Cameroon MOHCAM with support from Women Mediators across the Commonwealth for members of the Women Peace builders’ Network WOPEN NW. In November 2020 MOHCAM executed a project on strengthening the capacities of members of the Women Peace builders Network-WOPEN to Effectively Engage in Mediation and peace building in response to crises in the North West Regions. Through this activity, over twenty-six (26) women leaders from the grassroots and community organizations were trained with support funding from the Women Mediators across the C...

The ordinary session to examine, scrutinize, vote and adopt the 2020 accounts of Zhoa Council took place last March 31st 2020 at the Zhoa Council Hall. The council session was chaired by the Zhoa Council Mayor, Councilor NJAH Titus NDONGKEH, under the watchful eyes of the 1st Assistant SDO for Menchum, Mr. Demanou Fabrice. Welcoming the Councillors and the Divisional Officer for Fungom Subdivision, Councilor NJAH Titus NDONGKEH told the council session that after voting the 2020 Budget and handing over to the council executive to execute it, it was but normal for all to come back in a session like this, to evaluate and score themselves for the future. A rare opportunity to mirror their actions in order to improve on the living conditions of the population of the municipality. The Administrative and Management Accounts of Zhoa Council that has been adopted by the councillors, stands at CFA 785,104,384 francs while expenditure stands at CFA 341, 586, 757 francs. The amount of investment ...

Communication Officers drawn from 9 partner Councils of the SEEPD program of the CBC Health Services, have undergone a one day capacity building on inclusive communication, capturing and reporting of Community Based Inclusive Development CBID stories as well as the ability to upload, edit and update their various council's websites. While opening the workshop, Mr. Tamon James, Representating the Director of CBC Health Board, challenged the Communication Officers, to mainstream inclusion in their various writeups in every area of Council development. This to him, will improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities. From inclusive reporting to website management passing through social media corporate reporting, story writing and taking and documenting good pictures, the modules were tailored to enable the partner councils see the need to communicate their actions inclusively, using different channels, and putting in place an accessible website. It should be noted that th...

The Member of Parliament for Menchum South Constituency, Hon. Wallang Richard Ebua, has once again demonstrated his fatherly love to the rural community. This time around, it was at the St. Martin’s Catholic school in Wum Municipality of Menchum Division in the North-West Region that tasted the generosity of the Member of Parliament. After 79 years of existence, with an advanced stage of decrepitude classroom buildings and a non-existing multimedia center, St. Martin’s Catholic school Wum has just been given a new facelift by the MP, a philanthropist. A ceremony to officially hand-over the newly constructed and equipped St. Martin’s Catholic school Wum to the educational community, took place February 20, 2021 at the school premises, after a Holy Mass at the St. Martin De Porres Catholic Church Wum. The event witnessed the presence of Mr. Demanou Fabrice, the First Assistant SDO. Speaking at the event, Rev. Father John Siewe Seugoua urged those in attendance to accompany the MP of Menc...

With the North-West Region now experiencing the second wave of COVID-19, the Municipal Magistrate of Wum Council, Mr. Dighambong Anthony Mvo, has called on residents of his municipality, to make sure they are doing all they can to slow the rate of infection, and to protect each other, by systematically putting on their face masks, washing their hands regularly with soap and runny water, and by respecting social distancing at all time. He made this call, while chairing a mass distribution of face masks to inhabitants of his municipality. In total, over 5,000 face masks have been distributed by the Wum Council, mostly to young people. The Mayor also reassured Wum denizens that efforts are being made to step up the fight against this deadly pandemic. He reminded them that the global pandemic is not yet over. As such, preventive measures like social distancing, washing of hands, sanitizing of hands and appropriate wearing of face mask. Mayor Dighambong Anthony Mvo said: "The situatio...

The PC Naikom women’s center, in Wum, Menchum Division of the North West Region, played host to a one day workshop on the training of over thirty community based leaders (CBLS), on monitoring public investment projects. Organized by the North-West Association of Development Organizations NWADO, the workshop falls within the ambit of the Active Citizenship Strengthening Program (PROCIVIS) in Cameroon, and was held under the thematic of “ Strengthening civil society in the formulation and monitoring of public policy and the promotion of the rule of law and peace”. The raison d’être of the workshop was to strengthen the capacity of Community Based Leaders (CBLs) to monitor public investment projects in their communities and carry out whistle blowing on wrong doings in the execution of public contracts. It also aimed at increasing the knowledge of CBLs on techniques of monitoring public investment projects, enable them understand and access on sim tools for project monitoring as well as p...

The Colbert Factor: How Peterkins Manyong, Publisher/Editor, The Independent Observer, Finally Gains Total Independence This reflection is inspired by a discussion I once had with Peterkins Manyong, while alive, to the effect that despite the fact that he was running his own media outfit, most newspaper publishers still wanted him to run columns in their newspapers, to the extent that his reluctance would lead to a clash with them, and he wondered why they could not understand that he needed to concentrate on his own creation, The Independent Observer. In a bid to assert that independence he took time explaining to me why he named his media outfit, The Independent Observer, because he wanted to be totally independent, both in modus operandi and in modus vivandi, not like Southern Cameroons that decided to become independent by joining La Republique du Cameroun, wondering aloud why someone would decide to become independent by joining another person. It is the more informed by the fac...