TASTEs PRESS REVIEW SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
CRTV 1:00PM NEWS
►Cameroonian AU, UN Soldiers protest over unpaid allowances
Some Cameroonian soldiers on an African Union, United Nations mission to the Central African Republic have been protesting over the non-payment of their allowances. This morning the soldiers marched in Yaoundé. The Minister of Communication is preparing and official government statement on the issue.
Cameroon Tribune
►Turkey to Train More Cameroonian Youths
The outgoing Turkish Ambassador to Cameroon, His Excellency Omer Faruk Dogan has restated his country’s readiness to continue to offer scholarships to young Cameroonians as well as organise other forms of training for them. Speaking in Yaoundé on Monday September 7, 2015 after meeting with the Minister for Youth Affairs, Bidoung Mkpatt, Omer Faruk Dogan described the Cameroonian youth as “dynamic and a treasure for the country.” The Ambassador expressed confidence in the ability of Cameroonian youths to help the country become emergent by 2035.
►Tsunami Day: Japan seeks Cameroon’s support
The Japanese government is on an offensive campaign for the institution of the International Day of Tsunami. In this vein, the country is lobbying for support from friendly countries ahead of the United Nations Conference on Natural Disasters which comes up in March 2016. The courtesy visit of the Japanese Ambassador to Cameroon, Kunio Okamura to the Minister for External Relations, Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo on Monday September 7, 2015, was thus intended to solicit Cameroon’s support for the Japanese bid. Japan, it should be recalled, was last struck by a violent tsunami in March 2011 during which at least 25,000 people were killed.
►Lawn Tennis Cup: Nkwenti, Mamo Emerge Champions
The cup of Cameroon finals in lawn tennis took place on Saturday September 5, 2015 in Yaoundé with Nkwenti Blaise and Flore Mamo emerging champions in the men’s and women’s categories respectively. The winner in the men’s category bagged home a cash prize of FCFA 250.000 while the women’s champion took home FCFA 150.000.
www.crtv.cm
►Conjoint twins, Davis and Daryl evacuated for surgery
The set of conjoint twins, Davis and Daryl, born on August 27, 2014 in the Banso Baptist Hospital have been evacuated to Tunisia for a surgical operation. Prior to their departure, the Minister of Public Health, Andre Mama Fouda and that of Social Affairs, Catherine Bakang Mbock visited them. The Public Health Minister announced their evacuation during the visit at the Chantal Biya Foundation on Monday 7th September 2015. The conjoint twins, linked at the abdomen had been hospitalised at the Foundation for about four months.
►Business firms to be schooled on software financial management
The Director General of Small and Medium size Enterprises Promotion Agency, Badga Jean Marie Louis says software financial management is necessary for the growth of small scale businesses. He was speaking on September 7, 2015 in Yaoundé during the opening ceremony of a two-week refresher course organised at the National Advanced School of Technical Engineering -Polytech. Closed to 30 student engineers are presently being drilled on software financial management and online marketing. These students shall be expected to serve as facilitators to 100 small scale business firms during an upcoming workshop.
►Fighting Boko Haram: Cameroonians in Equatorial Guinea make donation
Cameroonians based in Equatorial Guinea have donated foodstuff to the defense forces and displaced persons in the Far North Region. The Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, Jules Doret Ndongo presided over the handover ceremony on Tuesday September 7, 2015 at the Military 101 Base in Yaoundé. The Inter-ministerial Adhoc Committee charged with the collection and transmission of donations to the Far North Region received the package with joy and promised to convey it to the army and displaced persons.
www.cameroononline.org
►Shipping Container Crushes Couple to Death
A man and his wife were on September 7, 2015 at about 3:30 pm crushed to death by a shipping container that fell off a Renault trailer transporting it. Mboning Simplice Rigor, who was driving a Toyota pick-up van was on board with his wife, Ngassam Mbakop. They were heading for Carrefour Bassong in the Logpom neighbourhood of Douala to attend an academic defence by a relative. Following the accident, the driver of the trailer, who is said to have sustained no injury, escaped and is still at large.
www.voa.com
►Three New Ebola Patients Found in Sierra Leone
Three more people have tested positive for Ebola from the same village in Sierra Leone's northern Kambia district of the country where a 67-year-old woman died last week from the virus. Medical officials say the three new patients came from among the 50 high-risk persons identified as close relatives of the deceased woman. Sierra Leone has had nearly 14,000 cases of Ebola and about 4,000 deaths since the outbreak began in 2014.
►Laurent Gbagbo’s Release Request Rejected
Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday rejected a request for the temporary release of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo weeks before the start of his trial. Gbagbo, 70, is accused of plunging his country into civil war rather than relinquishing power after losing a presidential run-off election in 2010. His trial is due to begin November 10, 2015. He has been detained in The Hague since November 2011, after being arrested in April of that year in Ivory Coast.
www.bbc.com
►Burundi opposition spokesman Patrice Gahungu killed
The spokesman for a party in Burundi opposed to President Pierre Nkurunziza's third term has been shot dead in the capital, Bujumbura. Police say Patrice Gahungu, from the Union for Peace and Development (UPD), was targeted by unidentified gunmen as he drove home late on Monday. The leader of the same small opposition party, Zedi Feruzi, was killed in May. President Nkurunziza was sworn in for a controversial third term last month following several months of unrest.
www.cnn.com
►Zimbabwe ex-vice president aims for the presidency
Former vice president of Zimbabwe, Joice Mujuru on Tuesday released a political manifesto, signaling for the first time her intention to challenge for power since being sacked by President Robert Mugabe. Mujuru, 59, fell out with Mugabe and was fired last December after previously being seen as one of the veteran leader's closest allies and his likely successor. Her manifesto opposes many of Mugabe's key policies.
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