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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...

  By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe With Reports The esteemed Mayor of Limbe I Council, Florence Eposi Mbwaye, has asserted that from the previous year until the early stages of this year, the council has encountered a series of painful incidents. Her pronouncement was made within the confines of the council chambers during a session that was specifically convened to ratify the council management's undertakings in recent months. Mayor Florence Mbwaye Eposi expounded that the preceding year was riddled with challenges and complexities. The council was beset by not only financial constraints but also the unfortunate and untimely demise of its workers, rendering the period arduous and taxing. “The Limbe I Council has lost five of its councilors during this mandate and on the early hours of Tuesday the 21st of March this year; thieves broke into the Council destroying 21 doors. The matter is still under investigation. I appeal to you all to keep the Limbe I Council in your personal prayers” M...

 By Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe With Reports The Mayor of Limbe II Municipality, Chief Ndive Woka Ngale, I has listed the projects carried out by his team so far. The mayor was speaking in Limbe recently during a session to adopt the Administrative, Management, and Stores Account of the Council. Some of the projects he listed include realization of a portable water supply at Mokundange, the Construction of a Health Centre at Bobende, the Construction of lock-up stores at Krata, and the construction of a Fish market and cold rooms at Isokolo market. Others included the maintenance of the Municipal Road at GBTHS Limbe, the Construction of a block of a nursery school at Mokundange, the maintenance of Communal roads in Limbe II, Wovia Village, Equipping of Government Nursery School Mokundange with school chairs, tables, and a blackboard, equipment support to some needy person among others. Reacting to the Mayor's declarations, the First Assistant Senior Divisional Officer for Fako ...

By Albert Ayuk The headmistress of Government Nursery School, Tali, in crisis hit Manyu Division of the Southwest Region of Cameroon is said to be in trouble with security officers and separatist fighters in that part of the country. This followed a raid on the campus of the school where she was headmistress and the discovery that the school was used as a camp for separatist fighters on March 13, 2023. Defense forces are reported to have stormed the campus chasing out the fighters with guns shots in the air and aiming at them. Indira Mblandip  Ashunombi Epse Agbor Robert, the headmistress, is being accused by Security and Defense Forces for hosting separatist fighters on her campus and hiding the information from them, hence conspiracy to terrorism. The Separatist fighters on the other hand are accusing the headmistress of leaking information to the security officers, terming her a blackleg or traitor. Both parties are on a serious hunt and search on these double allegations puttin...