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 By Akem Ayuk A prominent Limbe based gender activist has been released from detention, three days after she was arrested by Cameroonian soldiers. Joana Eneke Enowmbi, who is Gender Officer and a field coordinator at the Limbe-based Denis Miki Foundation, a Non-governmental organization, in the South West Region of Cameroon, was arrested in the night of Saturday December 10, 2022.   She was preparing to return from one of her field trips that was aimed at investigating cases of alleged rape on internally displaced women and girls of the Anglophone war in a locality around Buea subdivision. She is said to have been picked up in a local motel where she and her colleagues were having a rest. One of her colleagues who volunteers with the organization, Belinda Etude Etuge, recounted how she was picked up, after Cameroonian soldiers knocked at their hotel room at about 10 pm and asked for their leader. “When the soldiers knocked at the door and asked who our leader was, Joan indicated

By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe The National Oil Refining Company, SONARA, has handed over a Modern Toilet that costs FCFA 8 Million Francs to the authorities of Government Primary School Towe, in Limbe I Sub Division on Thursday, December 8, 2022 It is worth noting that this is not the first modern toilet facility that SONARA is providing to schools within its neighborhood. A few years back, SONARA built the same facility in Government Primary School Mokunda, in the Limbe II Sub Division. Thus the construction of this toilet facility at GS Towe is just a continuation of a series of corporate social responsibility projects that SONARA has been carrying out over the years in different communities in Limbe, Fako Division and beyond. The Director in Charge of Technical Control at SONARA was at GS Towe in the company of other SONARA staffers amongst them Parfait Messina Ngosso of the Communication Service. Receiving the toilet, The Head Teacher of Government Primary School, GS, Towe

Limbe City Mayor Paul Efome Ngale   By Robert Abunaw The peaceful and serene coastal city of Limbe 96 .629 has entered very challenging days. Its poor topography and Climate change effects characterized by excessive rainfall, landslides and floods are giving the population and City Authorities sleepless nights. To mitigate what from all indications appear to be caused by its poor topography and deforestation, 90.000 plants are currently being nursed in a jumbo nursery created by the Limbe city council. These plants it is believed will be able to hold the loose soil of Limbe which is partly responsible for floods and landslides. According to the City Mayor, Mr. Paul Efome LM Ngale, “the current rainy season has severe environmental challenges”. We are facing floods landslide a failed drainage system. He said observation and studies show that landslide around the periphery of the city are the main cause of the floods and subsequent difficulty in drainage out to the sea. We ar

By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe Barrister Nkongho Agbor has been elected the president of the Cameroon Union of Young Lawyers. He was elected last Sunday in a heated election of the union that took place at a Douala based hotel during the Elective General Assembly of the union. He carried the day after getting the majority of the over 600 members who turned out to vote. The Union it should be noted boosts of over 800 members, being lawyers with less than 15 years in the legal practice. Before the elections, Barrister Nkongho Agbor told Young Layers in Cameroon that, the creation of an office space for the union was vital. “An office space is a very vital part of the development of Young Lawyers. We can't limit the seat of the CUYL to a briefcase. There must be an equipped office where programs for Young Lawyers are planned, a place where Young Lawyers meet and actively exchange ideas and information, a place where Young Lawyers forward their worries in a formal way, a plac

  The IWPG Global 4 Region held a regular meeting of the World Peace Network in Cameroon and Burundi online on October 25, with a total of 16 people attending. It was to remind them t hat the beginning of peace begins with me and my family, the smallest community, and they had time to practice and share peace in their respective places by writing and expressing love letters to them or their family. Nicoline Wazeh (p athways for Women's Empowerment and Development, Founder ), the Representative of the Yaoundé Peace Committee, Cameroon, explained from Articles 1 to 3 of the DPCW and took time to realize why the DPCW is the actual answer to peace. Aben Melvis   Anep (Cameroon, Children For All Africa, President) who shared her letter that write to herself and her family conveyed her feelings about the meeting. "Some people had difficulty connecting to the Internet, but the regular meeting was good enough to learn and it was great" Irene Chinje (Cameroon, Associated C

 By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe The news of a new National Coordinator of the Presidential Plan For the Reconstruction and Development of the SW and NW Regions landed on Social Media moments before the announcement over State Broadcaster, CRTV Radio News. This appointment we gather was a proposal from Minister Paul Tasong to the Prime Minister and approved by the Head of State. This is not the first time Minister Paul Tasong is recommending the New National Coordinator in this affair. Minister Paul Tasong, it should be noted also recommended the New National Coordinator as the Consultant to elaborate the Presidential Plan.   But Who Is This New National Coordinator? The New National Coordinator of the PPRD is a Senior Agricultural Economist with top Management and Leadership experience in several Government Ministries - Agriculture, Tourism, Forestry and Wildlife, Environment and Finance and the PM’s Office. He has also worked   with several development Institutions / Program

By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe There had been jubilation and merrymaking at the Roman Catholic Church Premises in Mamfe and Nchang Village following the appearance of a car that afternoon with 9 Church members  kidnapped by alleged separatist fighters.  The Four Priests, a cook, a little girl, a Nun, and an assistant Catechist kidnapped at the St Mary Catholic Church in Nchang Village in the Manyu Division were freed on October 23 by their kidnappers. An insider said they were taken by the kidnappers to an area around Akwaya before their release.  It is believed that the pictures that went in circulation were taken at a location in Nigeria - Ikom, that shares a common boundary with Akwaya in the Manyu Division. Though the Bishop of the Mamfe Dioceses has not made any official statement on the release of the kidnapped Priests and the Christians, suspects believe their release was secured by a Christian based organization in Nigeria. This came several days after a one minute video went vir

  By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe With Reports The former Director of the Limbe Regional Hospital and the Bamenda Regional Hospital, Doctor Thompson Kinge seems to be retired though not yet tired. He has bounced back with a lot of energy as the Director of Swiss Care Medical Consultations. The Community oriented media practitioner and specialist who has now emerged as The Director of Swiss care medical consultations in Limbe, has revealed that patient’s care will be the priority of his private health care set up. He made this revelation on Saturday October 15, 2022 during the official launching of the hospital. Speaking during the launching Dr. Thompson Kinge said the vision of Swiss Care Medical Consultations is to compliment what other hospitals have been doing but with emphasis on patients’ care. “We’ll do things differently in the sense that; we’ll give the patients the opportunity to have something to say about their treatment. We shall respect people according to their t

By Mbonda Lizzy Noel Leading women empowerment Think Thank, Changing Mentalities, Empowering Groups, CHAMEG, has launched yet another project to empower internally displaced women and young girls. According to the Executive Director of CHAMEG, HRH Doctor Meg Agbor, for the next 7 months CHAMEG will be identifying and providing Psychosocial support, Mental health and Family planning services,COVID-19 and Economic strengthening of 150 IDPs and vulnerable Persons in the Buea and Limbe communities. The activities it should be noted kicked off with the training of 25 IDPs in Rural Tole community on the production of Medicated and Liquid Soap. “Our goal is to impact these IDPs with the necessary skills and engage them in income generating trades for better livelihoods.” Meg Agbor told The Advocate On the second day of the empowerment program, there were a series of skills training workshop, where the IDPs were making their mark. They produced medicated soap of various colors, and s

  By Ruth Samba While sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) can affect anyone be they male or female, it differs in each system where there is no institutional oppression involved and where they are not reported. SGBV which is the most pervasive human rights violation, is not inevitable and must be prevented at all levels even amongst intimate sexual partners. When the entire social structure is designed to reinforce the idea that women most especially are second class citizens, it creates a communal disregard for the exploitation of women. Their perpetrators are usually intimate sexual partners, family members, neighbors or strangers. The Hope for a Better Tomorrow (HOBET) foundation has chosen the media - friendly approach to put an end to SGBV. This was the content of a two-day workshop where SGBV survivors recounted their ordeals. The workshop was also aimed at training media professionals on the need to use their voices in fighting SGBV through advocacy contents that d

Compiled By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe The International Women’s Peace Group held the “2022 International Women’s Peace Group Assembly” online recently under the theme “Women’s Cooperation for the Implementation of Sustainable Peace”. According to IWPG, Chairwoman Hyun Sook Yoon, this event was prepared as a place to share the achievements of peace activities with women around the world and to present a blueprint for the institutionalization of peace. “According to a release which The Advocate procured, due to the current conflicts facing the world, voices for the establishment of a new international law are growing. In response, IWPG, together with 105 branches in 132 countries and 500 cooperative organizations, is drawing positive effects by continuously requesting for support from the international community to urge for legalization based on the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW)” the release stated. At this event, it is predicted that many women around the worl

  By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe The streets Of Garoua, last Monday October 3 took a different look with the Blue colours of leading Telecommunication Company in Cameroon, CAMTEL flying at the major points of the City. The event was the launch of the 2022 version of the Chantal Biya International Cycling Race, dubbed Grand Prix International Chantal Biya. Lovers of cycling who attended the launching at the Roum D’Ajia complex have been quick to commend CAMTEL for beautifying the event ground and engaging the slogan that Blue is the point- Un Point C’est Blue Apart from branding the event, the CAMTEL delegation as major sponsors revealed that the company will also provide prizes to the winners for the best cyclist, best sprinter, best mountaineer and the fastest young rider. Present at the opening ceremony before the first lap of the 99.2 Km race across Garoua started, was the Minister of Sports and Physical Education, Professor Narcisse Mouelle Kombi, the General Manager of CAMTEL, Mrs. Ya