Africa News Update
Cameroon: A decisive move to fight Malaria (editorial)
This week was particularly eventful in the health sector in Cameroon. AIDS treatment centres started implementing government’s decision to offer free antiretroviral drugs to all AIDS patients in need of the therapy last Tuesday, 1st May. Yesterday, Cameroonians got up to yet another good news — the reduction of the cost of malaria drugs in private hospitals and pharmacies. The measure comes to complement what was already effective in public hospitals since February 19, 2007 when the cost of treating malaria dropped to between CFA 140 and 600.
Read > Friday, 04 May 2007
Cameroon Tribune (Cameroon)
Cameroon: Country issues free Aids drugs
Yaounde (Cameroon) - The government will give free treatment to all HIV/Aids patients in the west African country starting next month, said the health minister on Thursday. Health minister Urbain Olanguena Awono said: "The government of the Republic of Cameroon has decided today (on Thursday) that there will be free treatment with antiretroviral (drugs) for all people living with HIV/Aids eligible for this type of treatment." He said the drugs were being funded by government spending and grants from groups like the Global Fund and the Clinton Foundation.
Read > Friday, 20 April 2007
News 24 (South Africa)
Cameroon: Media : Indispensable aid (editorial)
A lump sum of FCFA 150 million has been earmarked by the Ministry of Communication as government assistance to the private press this year. Communications Minister, Ebenezer Njoh Mouelle last Wednesday chaired the opening meeting of the commission to examine applications from media organs for the award of the aid. Some media practitioners see the move as an indispensable support from the state, while others strangely qualify it as an attempt by government to buy over the conscience of media organs.
Read > Friday, 09 March 2007
Cameroon Tribune (Cameroon), by Richard Kwang Kometa
Cameroon: Women face to face with desertification
Ngouma (Northern Cameroon) - The village of Ngouma has a population of 538 people, 406 of which are women. Most of the men, especially those who can still work the fields, have left in the face of land degradation and even desertification. "Stock breeders are migrating to grazing areas and fishermen are going north to Lake Chad, which is only nine kilometres away. Those who do not have fixed employment are going to the cities," Yaya Djouldé, the village chief, told IPS.
Read > Friday, 16 February 2007
Inter Press Service (IPS) by Sylvestre Tetchiada
Cameroon: Anti-corruption unit to be set up
The General Manager of the Public Contract Regulatory Board made the announcement recently during a training workshop. The four-day workshop organised by the Public Contract Regulatory Board (ARMP) ended on 25 January, on a happy note following the announcement by the board’s General Manager, Jean-Jacques Ndoudoumou, of the imminent creation of an anti-corruption unit and a question box. The first structure will ensure decency in the public contract sector while the latter will open up floodgates of suggestions and criticism in order to improve the system.
Read >Wednesday, 07 February 2007
Cameroon Tribune, by Lukong Pius Nyuylime
Cameroon: Country to power up its economy
The disappointing performance of Cameroon’s privatisation of energy sector and the resulting drag on economic growth have led to country’s vast gas resources being strategised as its principal source of power. Blessed with copious gas deposits which, converted to energy, could more than solve the West African country’s present energy problems, according to local and international energy professionals.The precarious reliance on electricity power from hydro-generation would be short-circuited with the strategic installation of gas-fired capacity. Gas turbine power stations are relatively quick to build, are cost-efficient to run and are clean-burning.
Read >Wednesday, 07 February 2007
Business in Africa (South Africa), by Tom Nevin
Cameroon: Fishermen report oil slick in Cameroon
Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - Tonnes of crude oil leaking from the Chad- Cameroon pipe-line terminal since Tuesday into the sea at the level of the Ebome platform is a looming threat to Cameroon's coastline, fishermen complain here. The Ebome platform is located at 6 km from the Kribi city in southern Cameroon.
Read >Monday, 22 January 2007
Panapress (PANA)
Cameroon: Accord of hope (editorial)
Last Friday, the Executive General Manager of the National Hydrocarbons Corporation, SNH, Adolphe Moudiki and the General Manager of National Gas Company of Equatorial Guinea, SONAGAS, Jun Antonio Ndong, signed an accord for the continuation of cooperation between both companies, in view of completing a project on the exportation of Cameroon’s natural gas to Equatorial Guinea for liquefaction.
Read >Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Cameroon: Accord of hope (editorial)
Cameroon: Villagers protest social injustice
An ongoing protest by villagers of Mabonji, Mbalangi and Ediki has practically grounded the movement of persons and goods between Meme and Fako Divisions of the Southwest Province. Since Friday, January 5, the villagers have mounted roadblocks on the highway, an act that has resulted in thousands of people being unable to leave or enter Kumba, the chief commercial town of the Province.
Read >Tuesday, 09 January 2007
Post (Cameroon), by Loveline Mbori