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Arrested Gender Activist Released From Detention

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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

Corporate Social Responsibility: SONARA Hands FCFA 8M Modern Toilet To School

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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

Poor Topography Puts Limbe In Danger

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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