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 By Ojong Joseph Ojong The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is running a pilot project for youth empowerment (human capital investment) to revitalize the local economies through youths. The project has as objective to empower 1,000 youths each in some municipalities of Cameroon. Changing Mentalities and Empowering Groups (CHAMEG Cameroon) was given the mandate to implement the pilot phase of the project in the South West Region, CHAMEG Cameroon. To execute this, CHAMEG then hired some experts to facilitate the training. TABOKO Samson MENGE, the CEO and Co-founder of Manyu Development Group (Ma.De.G) was recruited as the Lead Trainer in Kumba. According to Tabogo, “We succeeded to train 5 youths in the pilot project for 3 months. The first 2 months was dedicated for classroom work. He added that they have covered 10 modules carved out in 2 courses. After 2 months of classroom work, trainees chose the line of business they intend to operate. They were then sent for coaching/fi

By Anye Nde Nsoh Out of 20 players called up for camping a total of 16 players are present in camp, four absent so far. The 16 amputee players have been involved in work outs twice daily working on resistance, ball possession and control, passes and others. As the days go by and with powerful opponents to face during the Cup of African Nations for Amputees, the team is in camp, fine tuning tactics for a better performance and output when they eventually travel to Dar es Salam Tanzania for CANAF 2021 to run from November 26, to December 5. Their training is expected to last till November 23 wherein they are expected to travel to Tanzania for the 15 national tournaments. Cameroom Amputee Football league dubbed CANAFL 2020 was recently concluded and Lead trainer Mankwa Donald says so far he can see the strength and determination of the players as they fine-tune tactics through more is expected. "I can weigh the strength of my players, I can see it coming already eventhough

  By Anye Nde Nsoh Bafut, an agricultural area noted for the production of cash crops such as ginger, cocoyam, maize, plantain and others have had its agricultural potentials drastically reduced due to the armed conflict plaguing the area since 2016.  Farmers have been unable to exercise their full agricultural potentials despite the availability of farm lands. Commercialists have been unable to effectively market these products produced caused by gun battles. Bafut equally plays host to tributaries of River Mezam, a major river from which Mezam division derives its name, which has become bedrock for river sand exploitation, employing hundreds of youths and serving as a major source of income generation to the Bafut Council.  This has ruined the economy of Bafut causing poverty low standards of living since some farmers have lost their lives, others are unable to cultivate and market their products. The New Divisional Officer of Bafut Subdivision Fokou Njukeng Andrelys have bee

  By A Correspondent The owner of Queen Mother Consultancy Mme Ngo Bahiha Caroline popularly known as Queen, has appealed to the government of Cameroon and Elites especially from the Anglophone Region to assist small entrepreneurs because private businesses have great potentials. She made the appeal on Saturday October 23, 2021 during a one day seminar in prelude to the upcoming AFRICAB2B Industrialization Exhibition & Awards scheduled to take place at the city council hall in Yaounde from the 18th to 22nd November 2021.   Queen Mother Consultancy’s   at the   seminar at Seme Beach in Limbe with over 25 business owners   and   leaders of cooperatives was to discuss on the role of SMEs in the inclusive and sustainable development of industrialization in Africa and mechanisms put in place to support businesses in the South West region. She mentioned that to be part of the fair, registered companies will pay a registration fee of 75,000 FCFA while non registered companies will

  By Valerie Halimatou The Population of the South West Region will soon smile with the advent of a Modern Cement Grinding Plant in Ombe, with a capacity of 600.000 tons. This idea of the plant which will be the first in the South West Region, and the first Cameroonian majority owned Company Cement Plant in Cameroon was revealed to some Journalists from different Media Outlets during a Press briefing which held on Wednesday, the 20 October, 2021, in the Conference Room of Mboka Industrial Services PLC at Mile 2, Limbe.   Speaking during the Press Briefing, The General Manager of Mboka Cement, Dr. Mukete Beyongo Dynamic, disclosed that the Cement Plant will be built by a German Company, Gebr Pfeiffer which has over 160 years experience in engineering, designing and building Cement Grinding Plants. He mentioned that the aim of Mboka Industrial Company is to produce premium cement and affordable construction materials. He added that the Company equally aims at providing over 900

By Imma MKONG   Stakeholders in peacebuilding are poised to ensure the protection of human rights and the fight against Gender Based Violence - GBV, as conditions cine qua non for building peace. They took the commitment recently in Yaounde, after a 3-day workshop organized by UNDP and partners, to train stakeholders in human rights protection and the implementation of UNSCR1325 on women, Peace and Security in Cameroon. After presentations on the basics of GBV and what UNSCR1325 is all about, deliberations focused more on data   from the National Institute of Statistics, indicating that 44 percent of men suffer gender based violence.  This was somewhat shocking to some participants who thought the data didn't represent reality. The conclusion however was that, what is most important in the Fight against GBV is not the number of victims but the response from survivors. Unlike the yesteryears, actions on the implementation of UNSCR1325 will hence be focus more on the preventi