TASTEs Press Review: knowing what's happening in Cameroon...

TASTEs PRESS REVIEW OCTOBER 1, 2015
Editor’s note
►October 1
Today marks 54 years since Southern Cameroons gained independence from Nigeria. Southern Cameroons was part of the British Mandate Territory of the Cameroons in West Africa until independence in 1961 when it formed a federation with the French-speaking Republic of Cameroon, which had gained independence one year earlier. A decade later, this federation was turned into a unitary state; the Southern Cameroons lost its autonomy and was instead parted into two different provinces, the Southwest and the Northwest provinces. Today October 1 is celebrated as Independence Day in Nigeria.
www.prc.cm
►Communication for development at Unity Palace
The President of the Republic His Excellency Paul BIYA on September 29, 2015 granted audience to Stéphane FOUKS, a communication consultant and French business mogul. They discussed communication for development with focus on the economic prospects of Cameroon, which he said needed to be explained to financial and industrial investors who do not yet know about the many economic opportunities existing in Cameroon, which has a wide variety of natural and mineral resources.
Cameroon Tribune
 ►Bonaberi: FCFA 24 Million Stolen in Daylight Robbery
Three men of the underworld attacked the premises of a money transfer office near Cimetière, Bonaberi-Douala in broad daylight on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 and made away with FCFA 23 million and 2,180 Euros (about FCFA 1,429,986). According to police sources, the burglars, dressed in military fatigues, had two automatic pistols and a machine gun. They entered the money transfer office pretending to be clients in the absence of the day watchman and held the people inside at gunpoint. After collecting the money at about 2:30 pm, they left without a trace. Gendarmes have opened investigations into the matter.
www.crtv.cm
►New machine to cut Eru
The Coordinator of the Support Program for the Promotion of the Cultivation of “Okok” in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Pierre Ayissi Nnanga has invented a machine used to cut Gnetum Africanum locally referred to as “eru” or “okok”. The machine called "Kostal" which according to its inventor can cut around one ton of Eru per hour was recently presented in Yaoundé. For now, only a prototype of the Kostal is available at the headquarters of the Support Program for the Promotion of the Cultivation of “Okok”.
www.cameroononline.org
►MINATD: Civil status Registrars reminded of their responsibilities
The Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization in collaboration with a French NGO - Civi-pol has organized an intensive training seminar to reinforce the capacity of civil status registrars and their secretaries. The one day training is out to help participants understand their job descriptions so as to eliminate fraud and mistakes on Birth, Death, Marriage, certificates and other documents. With the use of manuals and other practical training tools, participants were taught on the various ways of evading fraud in the course of processing civil status documents.
www.cnn.com
►Nigeria’s Buhari finally submits cabinet names
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday finally submitted names to serve in his cabinet, four months since taking office and after announcing he intended to take personal charge of the country's crucial oil portfolio. The long-awaited list of nominees was submitted to Senate president Bukola Saraki at the National Assembly buildings in Abuja. Meantime, Buhari has called on Nigerians to stop their "unruly behaviour" to achieve progress. He said in an address to mark 55 years of independence.
►Another explosion hits Southern China
Another explosion rocked China's southern Guanxi province this morning, a day after more than a dozen other blasts killed at least seven people and injured over 50 others at several locations. The latest explosion occurred at a residence in a six-story building in the Liucheng neighborhood of Liuzhou city. The local public security bureau confirmed that explosions occurred at 13 locations, including a shopping mall, jail, supermarket, rail station, a hospital and an open air market.
www.voanews.com
►Pakistani airstrikes kill 25 militants
Pakistan's military says that its fighter planes bombed suspected militant hideouts near the Afghan border Thursday morning, killing at least 25 terrorists. An official statement says the airstrikes happened in North Waziristan's Datta Khel area, considered stronghold of militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban and the Haqqani network of insurgents involved in deadly attacks in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif while addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York Wednesday reiterated Pakistan's determination to eliminate terrorists from its soil.