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Mbowoh Elvis Installed ELECAM NW Regional Delegate As SDF Wants Decentralized Polling Centres

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Story By Ndi Tsembom Elvis 41-year-old Mbowoh Elvis, native of Lebialem Division and holder of a Master’s Degree in Comparative politics from the University of Buea has been installed as the new North West Regional Delegate of Elections Cameroon, ELECAM. The installation ceremony that took place at the Bamenda Ayaba Hotel was conducted by the Director General of Elections, Dr Erik Essousse Thursday 14th February 2024. While installing the incoming Delegate, Dr Erik Essousse challenged him to continue from the works of his predecessor who was able to mobilize 18,166 new voters in 2023. He was challenged to work in the footsteps of his predecessor to ensure a favourable climate between the election’s stakeholders, the administration and the judicial authorities. Dr Essousse appreciated the fact that the incoming personality had risen through the ranks of Elections Cameroon and thus deserves this confidence. A confidence which the Bamenda City Mayor, Achobong Tambeng Paul says
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KAIPTC Migration Management Scholars Promise Positive Feedback

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By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe * Some over 30 scholars who recently finished an intensive course on Migration Management, have promised the organizers of the course and its partners a positive feedback after the training that lasted from 5-16 of February 2024. The course was a series of trainings ongoing at the Koffi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Accra and was organized in collaboration with the Swiss Government and the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). For two weeks, the participants drawn form countries in West and Central Africa, covered modules in Migration and Human Rights, Migration and Gender, Migration and Development, Security concerns surrounding migration management amongst others. It was also an opportunity for the participants to take field visits along the Ghana and Togo border towns to have first hand information and learn best practices from migration officers and other stakeholders along that border. The team of 30 were not only in
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Muea Prince Flees From Double Trouble

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  By Amos Njoh One of the Princes of the Muea Kingdom, in Buea Subdivisions of the troubled Southwest Region of Cameroon is said to be on the run. The Prince whose name we got as Yannick Junior Molinge is said to have arrived Cameroon from Germany where he is a student. News of his arrival spread like wildfire attracting the concerns of separatist fighters who have a strong base in the locality. Barely a few days upon his arrival, we are told Yannick started receiving calls from the fighters to support them financially else they would kidnap and kill him. For fear of being accused of aiding terrorism, he refused to support these boys in the bushes. Knowing that he is from a royal family and that any pressure will definitely pay off, he was kidnapped by the boys and his face tied throughout the journey to their camp. While in their camp, he was forced to call his family to rescue him by paying an undisclosed amount of money. Yannick was released by the boys on conditions t
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Time to Walk the Talk on Protecting Humanitarian Workers

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Being An Opinion By Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths On World Humanitarian Day This World Humanitarian Day, we commemorate 20 years since that murderous day when terrorists detonated a suicide bomb outside the United Nations headquarters in the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, on 19 August 2003. As the late UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said at the time, it was one of the darkest days in the history of the United Nations. It still is. For me, World Humanitarian Day will always be an occasion of mixed, and still raw, emotion. Among those killed that day was Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was serving as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to Iraq. Sergio was my friend, and my daughter’s godfather. Sergio was devoted to the United Nations. He joined the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 1969not long after leaving university, and he spent the rest of his tragically curtailed life with the
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National Economics Olympiads Award Set For August 25

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  By B.O The Nkafu Policy Institute, a think tank of the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation, with a mission to advance public policies that help all Cameroonians prosper in a free, fair and democratic economy, will on August 25 at Mansel Hotel, Yaounde organize the awards ceremony of the National Economic Olympiads 2023. The National Economics Olympiads are a competition among secondary schools in Cameroon that offer training programs in economics .Nkafu Policy Institute conducts in-depth research and provides cutting-edge economic analysis and educates the public in understanding economic issues that affect their daily lives. Since 2012, the Nkafu Policy Institute has distinguished itself as a leading research centre in Cameroon, committed to promoting open debate that builds consensus towards a democratic future and economic freedom. On an economic level, the Nkafu Policy Institute explores how free market systems can help solve a range of economic problems in Africa and
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NewsWatch Recognizes Humanitarian Activist Esther Omam

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By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe Esther Omam is not a new name in the Humanitarian response project in Cameroon and beyond. This is the reason why the announcement by the Jury of the NewsWatch Newspaper 10th Anniversary award, declaring her organization, Reach Out Cameroon as the winner of the outstanding humanitarian organization of the year award was also not a surprise. The award that was handed to her last Saturday August 19   in Yaounde   for   her   being active and consistent in supporting persons, especially women, girls, and children, affected by the drawn-out armed conflict in the North West and South West regions. Reaction In a reaction to the Award, Ma Esther Omam as she is fondly called thanked members of the panel and the many readers who voted for her. According to her this adds another milestone in the journey covered so far since the outbreak of the Anglophone crisis. She continued that it comes at a time in a crisis that started slowly and one which many thought
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Help Out, Mission 21, Empower Young Girls Affected By Crisis

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 By Kum Seraphine Sangha Help Out (NGO) in partnership with Mission 21 has offered a free residential training to vulnerable displaced youths in the Agricultural Skill Development Center (ASDC) in Busumbu Limbe. The graduation ceremony of the beneficiaries took place on August 5 at the centre in Bussumbu, Limbe. The young graduates, seventeen in number, who were intensively trained for a three months period in snail farming, piggery, mushroom production, rabbits and even the cultivation of different vegetables were challenged to go out there and make a name for themselves through all what they have learnt. Speaking during the graduation ceremony, the County Coordinator for Mission 21 Cameroon, Mr. Togho Lumumba Mukong said Mission 21 aims at reducing beggars on the streets by empowering them”. While congratulating and encouraging the graduates to be committed and put all they have learned into practice, Mr. Togho Lumumba also challenged them to put all hands-on deck so that com
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