Cameroon Tribune
► Douala New Bell Prison: Calm returns after ravaging fire
Calm has returned to the New Bell Central prison in Douala after a fire incident ravaged ten cells harbouring close to 700 male prisoners on Saturday September 12, 2015. Officials of the prison in partnership with competent administrative authorities have taken temporary measures to lodge the inmates before reconstruction works begin. Tents have been acquired to serve as temporal accommodation.
► CICAM gas tank explosion wounds two
September 10 was a sad day at the cloth production company, CICAM, following the explosion of one of its gas tanks that led to the hospitalisation of two workers of another company who were carrying out maintenance work on the tanks. The victims, who are currently responding to treatment in a Douala based hospital sustained severe burns. The Senior Divisional Officer for Wouri, Naseri Paul Bea, visited the scene of the accident. The fire incident occurred at a time the factory just resumed from their routine one month break observed every year in August.
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► Lom Pangar Dam: Minister calls for evacuation of risk zone
The Minister of Mines, Industries and Technological Development organised a press conference yesterday September 14, to provide updates on the Lom Pangar Dam project. The Minister was targeting mining corporations and inhabitants around the Lom Pangar Dam project site which has been identified as a risk zone. As the partial filling of the Lom Pangar Hydroelectric Dam begins today September 15, 2015, the filling process would increase water levels to about three billion m2 and due to the fear of an overflow and subsequent submergence, the Minister cautions all entities and individuals still operating within the area to leave before the exercise begins. The mining operators however are resilient, arguing that they have full authorisation to operate in the area which is richly endowed with gold.
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► Commissioner suspended for insubordination
The Commissioner for Public Security in Mbouda, Pierre Tamo, has been suspended for a period of three months. The suspension follows an act considered prejudicial to the police force. On September 5, 2015 Commissioner Tamo had blocked the car of the Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Emmanuel Djoumessi Nganou, from leaving the CPDM party secretariat after a meeting. He claimed he had not been informed of the meeting. Even after the Minister presented a valid authorisation, he still prevented his vehicle form leaving. According to the release from the National Delegate for Public Security, the suspension will also involve suspension of salary and the commissioner will face the Disciplinary Committee after the three months where a final decision will be taken.
► NFF confirms Super Eagles friendly matches with Cameroon
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced that the Super Eagles will take on Cameroon and Congo in friendly games. According to an NFF press release yesterday, the Super Eagles will play the Indomitable Lions on October 11 in Brussels, Belgium. Nigeria last faced the Cameroonians in February 2004, in the quarter-final of the Africa Cup of Nations in Tunisia. The Eagles will take on Congo three days before the Cameroon friendly.
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► Gabon President appoints opposition figure
Gabon's president on Sunday appointed a new opposition figure to a senior ministerial post a day after another senior opponent declined the job, in a setback to his efforts to forge a united government ahead of next year's election. President Ali Bongo named Mathieu Mboumba Nziengui, Executive Secretary of the Opposition Union of the Gabonese People, as Minister of State for Agriculture. On Saturday, the leader of another wing of the UPG, Dieudonné Moukagni Iwangou, rejected the offer of the position, calling for political change in the oil-rich central African country.
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► Jos Islamic school collapse kills Nigerian children
Report say at least four children have died after a primary school building collapsed near the Nigerian city of Jos. Twenty-four pupils were injured in the incident at the Abu Naima Islamic school on Sunday, Mohammed Abdulsalam, from the National Emergency Management Agency said. It is unclear whether more students may be trapped under the rubble, he added. Building collapse often occur during the rainy season in Nigeria.
► UAE businesswoman sues Kenya over 'rendition'
A court in Kenya has begun hearing a case filed by a United Arab Emirates (UAE) woman who says she was seized by Kenyan Special Forces, taken to Somalia and Ethiopia, and tortured. Kamilya Mohammedi Tuweni says she was accused of being an Al-Qaeda agent while on a trip to Kenya in 2007. Ms Tuweni was released without charge after being detained for 72 days, and was given no reason for her detention. The head of Kenya's Anti-Terrorism Police Unit denies the allegations. The case has now been adjourned until October 29.
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