The Advocate Cameroon

 By Mark Nji Public Investment Budget (PIB) projects in Meme and Manyu Divisions, Southwest Region, Cameroon are facing significant delays following repeated threats and attacks on construction workers and government officials. The announcement was made on August 18, 2023, in Kumba by the Senior Divisional Officers (SDOs) for Meme and Manyu during a joint stakeholder evaluation meeting with traditional leaders and business operators. According to the SDO for Meme, Mr. Ntou’ou Ndong Chamberlain, the delays stem from continuous harassment by armed separatists. The most recent attack occurred on July 17, 2023, when construction crews working on farm-to-market roads connected to the Kumba–Mamfe highway were ambushed. Two officials supervising the works sustained injuries, while others narrowly escaped. “Separatists have made life difficult for our people. They do not want government projects to continue unless their demands are met. With the repeated threats and violent attacks on offi...

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...

  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 ...

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...

 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...