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  By  Dr.  Namanga Ngongi Paper Presented At The Conference Organized By The South West Regional Assembly, Buea, 12th And 13th May, 2023 It is a great honour for me to have been requested to be here and present a paper on conflict resolution, tradition, culture and development. This is a very broad but interesting topic on which volumes can and have been written. Our traditional leaders here present are much better placed to address issues of tradition and culture than me. I will thus touch on these only as they affect development. Conflicts have existed since Cain and Abel in the Bible. One brother’s sacrifice was accepted while the others was rejected. This led Cain to kill his brother. Many factors are responsible for llll ,,,,,,conflicts within families, villages, communities, countries and between countries. These factors include jealousy, envy, competition for limited resources, territorial control, governance issues, conflicts in religion, feelings of superiority a...

By Ayuk John Security officers have launched a manhunt for the brother of the Late Ambazonian fighter, General Ivo Popularly referred to as General Ivo, with real names Ivo Mbah was killed by Cameroon military during an operation in on 21 December 2018 The dreaded pseudo general was one of the fieriest since the deadly conflict escalated in the Anglophone Regions in 2016. He is noted for masterminding the difficult time the military has had in rendering Muyuka and neighboring communities free from the Ambazonian fighters. Since his death, it was reported that his brother had been planning revenge and this seems to have been leaked to security officers. We gather that security operatives have launched a Manhunt for his brother whose names we got as Shadrak Epoto Mbah. Sources in the community however hold that Shadrak Epoto Mbah is no longer in the country and that he may be hiding somewhere for a separatist fighter was killed around the troubled Muyuka Zone   some Ambaz...

 A former employee of the Clinton Health Access Initiative Cameroon, CHAI Cameroon, whose name we got as Ivo Muabe Mbwoge, is reported to have dragged the company to court for what he termed discrimination against his person. Ivo Muabe Mbwoge had worked with the said organization since 2016 without any worries until the arrival a new Acting Country Director, Dr Yauba Saidu, sometime in 2020 when his trouble started. Mbwoge, who was operations manager, said he got worried about the management style of the Acting Country Director, which to him was unprofessional. He cited an instance, where the boss started ordering him to send money unjustifiably to certain individuals, which he said he later discovered were the relatives of the new boss. He narrates that the boss was misusing the organization assets as he constantly puts the company's Prado at the dispositions of his relatives while on mission and when he resisted executing such unethical orders, his trouble started. Mbwo...

  By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe With Reports The Limbe City Mayor, Paul Efome LM Ngale, has said there are hopes for better days in the Limbe City Council despite the hard times the council is facing. Cameroon’s youngest and erudite City Mayor was speaking recently in Limbe during the examination of the administrative, management and stores accounts of the 2022 financial year of the Limbe City Council. Low Revenue He decried the low internal revenue collected by the City Council, caused partly by the SONARA situation after the 2019 fire incident which negatively impacted their internal recovery till date. He added that business is slow and tax payers do not have resources to pay taxes and Economic Operators generally not willing to pay taxes. Other reasons advanced were that of inadequate means to carry out control and difficulties for staff to go out for forceful recovery.   “From the foregoing, it is evident that despite our deep commitment towards meeting the asp...