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National oil deposit plant SCDP to build a 2nd gas filling plant in the Eastern region (Business in Cameroon) - From May 17 to 22, 2021, the Cameroonian Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection organized public hearings in Ndoumbi 1, in the Eastern region, in the framework of the environmental and social audits for the construction of a gas filling plant in that neighborhood.  According to an official release, the plant will be the second such infrastructure to be built in the Eas...

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Improving Child Literacy: Nascent Solutions Offers Over 100,000 Books To Three Regions The Government of the United States Department of Agriculture, USDA, is funding a five-year McGovern-Dole, MGD, Food for Education and Child Nutrition Programme in Cameroon implemented by the International Non-governmental Organisation, Nascent Solutions. The project benefits pupils, teachers and community members in 240 primary school communities in four target regions of the country. Of the beneficiary ...

Updated statistics on the pandemic as well as the ongoing vaccination came under focus during this month’s cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s office yesterday April 29, 2021.

Accepting Vaccination: Why Change In Communication Strategy Turned The Tides A growing number of Cameroonians regard vaccination with skepticism. This is partly explained by ignorance and the rumours often peddled on social media on the “demerits” or supposed risks of vaccination. Of late, the situation was worsened by the stance of two Roman Catholic Church dioceses whose bishops openly declared they would allow their female parishioners to be vaccinated against Central African Republ...

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail On April 16, 1963, an incarcerated Martin Luther King, Jr. (arrested for demonstrating in defiance of a court order) wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail in response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama. Part of the letter read: We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independen...

Repeal Law, Protect LGBT Rights Njeuken Loic (known as “Shakiro”) and Mouthe Roland (known as “Patricia”), two transgender women, in a Douala prison. © Private, Douala, Cameroon, March 2021 (Nairobi) – Cameroonian security forces have arbitrarily arrested, beaten, or threatened at least 24 people, including a 17-year-old boy, for alleged consensual same-sex conduct or gender nonconformity, since February 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. At...

LGBT+ people live under persecution in Cameroon By ANA Reporter Share CAPE TOWN – Cameroonian security forces have beaten, threatened and arrested at least 24 people, including a 17-year-old boy, in a ramped-up crackdown on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT+) people, since February, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. At least one of them was forced to undergo an HIV test and anal examination. “These recent arrests and abuses raise serious concerns about a new upsurge in...

(Business in Cameroon) - In collaboration with Dutch multinational franchise SPAR, L’Atrium plans to open a SPAR store in Bertoua, by June 2022. An agreement was signed in that regard with the Bertoua city council last April 1, 2021. According to Rakesh Panjabi, co-owner of L’Atrium group, the XAF1.5 billion investment will help provide modern retail infrastructure to Bertoua, capital of East Cameroon, and serve some neighboring countries. " Strategically, Bertoua will serve Bangui, in the...

Tackling COVID-19 Upsurge : Vaccine Announced, Total Mobilisation Prescribed I would like to start by saying that this statement is in compliance with the instructions of the President of the Republic, His Excellency Paul BIYA. Lire aussi : Peacekeeping: Cameroon Presents Strides Thus Far As you are probably aware, within the framework of the implementation of Government s response strategy, on 17 March 2020, the Head of State issued a series of restrictive measures aimed at limiting the sprea...