Cameroon defeat Egypt 2-1 at the Reunification Stadium in Bépanda on Saturday March 12, 2016.
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Cycling Race Of Cameroon: Morocco Dominates Competition

They won the first two laps of the race through Mohamed Essaid and Saadoune Abdelati respectively.
Morocco has proven they are out for business at the ongoing 13th edition of the International Cycling Tour of Cameroon. They have so far won the first two laps of the race and conserve the yellow jersey of the leader of the competition. Moroccan born, Er Rafai Mohamed Essaid Amione, won the first lap of the race on Saturday 12 March 2016 run between Ayos and Yaounde while his fellow country man, Saadoune Abdelati again won the second lap of the race which took place between Pouma and Kribi, yesterday.
With the winner of the last edition of the Grand Prix Chantal Biya and the cycling tour of Côte d’Ivoire, Lahsaini Mouhsine yet to say his last word in the competition, it is certain that Morocco will be team to watch in this year’s edition of the race. However, Cameroon is turning the heat on the Moroccans as a Cameroonian, Mbah Herve Raoul came second in the first lap and Tekou fokou Damien, third in the second lap yesterday 13 March 2016 behind Palcak Jozef from Switzerland in the second position.
On the general classification, Rafai Essaid Amine maintains the top position despite emerging 19th during the second lap yesterday. Mbah Hervé Raoul, the first Cameroonian on the general classification table is second with 2 minutes, six seconds behind the race bearer of the yellow jersey while Yemeli Pichele Herman is third on the general classification. In the team classification, Cameroon is third behind Morocco and Bansa Bysterica of Switzerland in the first and second positions respectively.
The race enters the third lap today to be run between Kribi and Douala over a distance of 173km which is the longest. The topography is fairly flat from the beginning to the end and could still favour Moroccans who are good rollers and sprinters. However, Cameroon may take their chance on Morocco when the race gets to the mountainous part of the country as Cameroon has good climbers like last year winner, Kamzong Abessolo alias ‘epistolero’.
There have been some hitches recorded in this edition of the race which got up to a promising start at Ayos where the population turned out massively. Upon arrival in Yaounde, around Nkoabang, there were no security officers on the way to control traffic and the race caravan was perturbed by unscrupulous motorists which were not to the taste of the race referee who made it known.
Also, there was no vehicle with a sound system to herald the arrival of the race caravan which led to a poor attendance on the road sides by spectators as has been the case in the past. Drivers and security officials also complained of staying up late to receive fuel which infers on the departure time that has always been behind the schedule since the beginning of the race.
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Buea (Fako) - An initiative by Buea Council in Fako Division of the South West Region recently brought joy to 250 students who did some manual work for the municipality.
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This was the major outcome of the school’s recent Board meeting.
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Menka (Mezam) - On the strength of a recent decision by the Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, Menka is now formally recognised as the 13th village in Santa Subdivision .....
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Chief Daniel Matta Mokambe was elected on March 4, 2016, during an extra-ordinary council session.
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South West: EISERVI Donates Books To Kumba Library

Kumba (Meme) - Children on holidays in Meme Division in the South West Region now have more books to keep them busy. This follows the recent offer of books by a non-profit organization that is working in partnership with the Kumba City Council. The launch of the Ann Gabonay Library which took place recently was presided by the Senior Divisional Officer for Meme, Koulbout Aman David.
During the exercise, the Government Delegate to the Kumba City Council, Victor Ngoh Nkelle, lauded the initiative of EISERVI charity, saying the coming of the library will help improve the reading culture of students and pupils in Kumba and its environs, especially at a time when an increasing number of school children are unable to read their names.
Victor Ngoh Nkelle said the deal was part of President Paul Biya’s idea of public-private partnership which he instructed earlier. The Government Delegate concluded that the advent of television and social media has killed the reading culture in Cameroon, with most children spending time watching movies.
According to the Executive Director of EISERVI, Andrew Nyenty, similar libraries have been opened in Mamfe, Buea, Dschang and Yaounde. Book Aid International in the United Kingdom provides more than 60,000 books to Cameroon every year. EISERVI also this year celebrated children’s open-door corner on the theme, “Read the world.” The project seeks the creation of safe spaces in libraries and communities to support the promotion of reading and learning in children, while helping them with the foundation necessary for meaningful adulthood.
It should be noted that the Ann Gabonay Library is the fourth library in Cameroon with which EISERVI has worked to refurbish space, design children-friendly furniture, paint attractive murals and provide brand new children’s books. By the end of 2016, Book Aid International and EISERVI hope to set up six more children’s corners in libraries in Kumbo, Mbengwi, Bafut and Belo in the North West Region and Ekondo Titi and Tiko in the South West Region.
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Commentary: Need For Accrued Vigilance

The Minister for Public Health last Friday ordered the immediate withdrawal of two hot-selling antibiotics from the market. The drugs in question are the orange-red Amoxverse capsules and the red-orange Ampiverse of the amoxicillin and ampicillin families. The curious thing about these two drugs is that they are very familiar to many users, notably those who, generally in the difficulty of access to recognized drugs, turn to them with their easy access since they are sold on the streets.
These antibiotics of the ampicillin and amoxicillin families are in widespread use throughout Africa and are well known in Cameroon. The fact that their devastating effects have only been recently discovered, as per the act of the Minister of Public Health, clearly indicates that much harm had been done to the countless citizens in search of quality medicines. This brings back the whole issue of street side medicines to the table.
Over the years, the government has come up with several initiatives to dissuade citizens from buying street side medicines just as it has also organized many campaigns to talk about the dangers of same, especially with regard to the origins of these medicines, their composition – which in many cases, does not comply with basic medical standards – and the conditions under which they are sold, because in many instances, these are exposed to the scotching heat as these are sold in open spaces along the streets and as such cause wide-ranging changes in chemical composition.
The Minister had never gone this far in his plea for a change of attitudes toward the consumption of street side medication. The fact that he very specifically and pointedly talked of the dangers posed by the use of these particular drugs on sale marks a new beginning in the fight against these drugs and is an initiative that must be taken up with the other important actors of the drug marketing sector. For, health cannot be the issue of the Minister alone.
All those involved in the drug distribution chain are therefore called to order and must form part of the watchdog in ensuring that only quality drugs are sold to a people already suffering under a groaning burden of poverty and which requires that the small money they have must be used in a way as to obtain the best results. By specifically naming the incriminated drugs was a way of putting a finger in the wound, unlike in the past when the phenomenon has been addressed in a general manner.
It is now necessary for all the stake-holders of the sector – health services administrators, drug manufacturers, drug control agencies and beneficiaries of health services – to mount a campaign to ensure that what is old or proposed to those in need is of quality and is adapted to what is sought after.
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Nobody was in at the time of the disaster, which also worsen traffic congestion in the area.
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This is thanks to a 460.5 million FCFA project funded by the European Union through UNICEF.
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After escaping Boko Haram attacks, displaced and refugee children have been absorbed in school through European Union and UNICEF support.
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They are acquiring generating sets as the situation looks set to continue till August.
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Editorial Comment: Curative Prevention

The long awaited rains have finally arrived in the southern part of Cameroon sending farmers back to their farms with seeds and seedlings. It is awaited in the northern part of the country in the next three months. The rain in effect represents one of the complexities of nature. It brings happiness just as it can bring sorrow. That is nature. T
he producer of the famous Botswana firm, “the gods must be crazy” describes it as a thing that has refused to adjust to man’s desires but that is forcing man to rather adjust to its own desires. This is certainly the spirit behind the “Emergency Project to Fight against Flood-PULCI” which the government officially launched in Yagoua in the Far North Region on Friday, March 11. In effect, government is readjusting to the desires of rain which comes along with a series of mishaps, the most common in the northern regions, being flood.
Memories have not stopped being fresh on the disaster caused by the sudden overflowing of Lake Maga in the far North Region in 2012, precisely in the Mayo-Danay Division. The incident brought untold misery ejecting the inhabitants of Simatou, Silawe, Tabadai, Ziam I, Ziam II and Ziam III from their family niches, forcing them to first settle in a school building in Guirvidig, about 25 kilometres from Maga before being resettled in a camp at the little village of Farahoulou.
Over 22,000 people were displaced by the uninvited guest from the Maga reservoir dam, property destroyed and schools disrupted. This situation left no one indifferent including President Biya and Wife who immediately organised a three-day visit to the area during which the Head of State took the engagement to give a lasting solution to the problem of flood both in the Far North and the North Regions.
The launching of PULCI last Friday is a logical implementation of the President’s engagement, a commitment supported by the World Bank as translated by its readiness to disburse FCFA 54 billion for its financing. The target set by the project that is already under execution is preventive but can be curative. Some of the components of the project include the reinforcement of the Logone and Maga dams, construction of residential houses to hoist victims, and rehabilitation of rice farms.
The two northern regions, particularly, the Far North Region is the area most starred by famine. That the emergency project takes ample consideration of food supply is something worthy of praise. Already hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, the Far Naorth Region in particular merits such a project.
Recent statistics on food insecurity are to say the least, disgustful. In 2015, the cereal deficit increased from 120,000 metric tons to 150,000. About 12,000 cattle died and several thousands of goats as well. The Boko Haram attacks have incidentally disrupted agricultural activities exposing the region to more food insecurity. The situation will certainly be worse should the two dams; Logone and Maga overflow their bounds.
This explains why stakeholders in the execution of PULCI must demonstrate a sense of seriousness knowing that they will be held responsible should some disaster once more have far reaching effects on the population.
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The Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines has presented a study on dairy production in the North West, West, Littoral and South West Regions.
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The Italian church-based NGO is arguably the most influential developmental mover in that part of the South-West Region.
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The Resident Representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Cameroon, Simon Brooks, has expressed gratitude to government for its openness ......
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Ministers Chief Dr. Joseph Dion Ngute and Issa Tchiroma Bakary visited the Commonwealth Exhibition Village in Yaounde on March 11, 2016.
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The Gendarmerie Boss, Jean Baptiste Bokam, presided over the installation ceremony on March 11, 2016 in Yaounde.
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Drame à Douala: Les premières interpellations

Face à la presse hier après-midi, le Minsanté a révélé que le morguier, le major de la maternité, la sage-femme et la dame qui a éventré la défunte sont aux arrêts. Face à la presse hier après-midi, le ministre de la Santé publique (Minsanté) n’est pas allé par quatre chemins pour calmer l’opinion publique et surtout donner la bonne information, suite à ce drame, de nature à entacher l’image de certaines formations sanitaires. En effet, depuis le décès de Monique Koumateke le samedi 12 mars à Douala, tout s’est dit sur les réseaux sociaux. Négligence, abandon de malade, pas d’assistance à une femme enceinte… Pour André Mama Fouda, il ne s’agit pas de cela. « On ne pouvait pas admettre une femme décédée dans une maternité, avec plusieurs femmes en travail. Elle est arrivée morte. La sage-femme a constaté son décès. Si une femme enceinte meurt, ses enfants n’ont aucune chance d’être en vie, les minutes qui suivent », a-t-il expliqué d’entrée de jeu.
A l’en croire le Minsanté, la dame, âgée d’une trentaine d’années environ, était à sa troisième grossesse. Elle avait déjà deux enfants. Sa première visite date du 11 mars dernier dans un hôpital privé de PK13 de Douala, avec un peu plus de sept mois de grossesse. Les données sur les lieux ont montré qu’elle avait une tension très élevée. Et ce centre a demandé qu’elle réalise un bilan de santé. On lui a donné un traitement contre le paludisme et elle est rentrée chez elle. Et le lendemain, 12 mars, elle est décédée. L’heure du décès n’est pas connue. Tout comme le lieu. Mais que s’est-il donc passé ce 12 mars ? « Sa famille l’a mise dans le coffre d’un taxi et celle-ci s’est présentée à l’hôpital de district de Nylon en demandant qu’on puisse extraire les fœtus. Ce corps médical n’a pas agréé. Et leur a demandé de se référer à l’échelle supérieure. Cette famille s’est rendue aux urgences de Laquintinie où l’un des membres est sorti et a déclaré qu’ils avaient une femme enceinte. Ils ont alors été orientés vers la maternité où ils ont été reçus par la sage-femme, qui malgré le fait que la dame était dans le coffre, a constaté le décès. Elle les a guidés vers la morgue. En voulant sortir le corps, le morguier a eu l’impression qu’un fœtus bougeait. Nous pensons que c’est la grosseur de la femme qui a fait croire que l’enfant bougeait », relate le Minsanté. De retour à la maternité, poursuit le ministre, les sages-femmes ont déclaré qu’elles n’étaient pas qualifiées. La gynécologue de service était en salle d’opération, le major a ainsi recommandé qu’ils aillent aux urgences où un médecin pouvait établir la possibilité ou non, de réaliser l’acte que les concernés demandaient. Mais dans ce mouvement d’incompréhension, la famille a sorti le corps de la voiture et l’a déposé à l’entrée de la maternité. La sage-femme a fermé la porte de la maternité pour appeler les secours, c'est-à-dire la police à l’entrée de l’hôpital. Elle est arrivée bien après que l’acte ignoble ait été commis sur la défunte.
Une enquête est en cours pour faire toute la lumière sur cette affaire qui alimente la controverse. En attendant ses conclusions, le Minsanté a fait savoir que le major de la maternité, la sage-femme, le morguier et l’accompagnatrice qui a éventré la défunte sont aux arrêts.
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Cameroon Tribune du mardi, 15 mars 2016.