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Les secrets de beauté du chouchou des Français

Les secrets de beauté du chouchou des Français

Champion de tennis et chanteur à succès, Yannick Noah est toujours sur le devant de la scène et au top de sa forme. Interview cash.
En cosignant avec la marque Bourjois une ligne de toilette sans paraben, sans silicone ni conservateur, le chanteur affirme son attitude conso-citoyenne. Une corde de plus à la cote glamour du [...]

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 03:54 pm GMT +1 | Posted in Français, General, Headlines | Read More »

AES Begins Building Gas-Fired Power Plant In Cameroon

AES Begins Building Gas-Fired Power Plant In Cameroon

AES-Sonel, the Cameroon affiliate of U.S. energy firm AES Corp. (AES), last month began construction of a 216 megawatt gas-fired electricity plant at Mpolonwe near the port town of Kribi.
The project, to cost EUR255 million, is designed to provide energy for mineral mining and will take 23 months to complete.
Cameroon Premier Philemon Yang visited the [...]

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 03:46 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, General, Headlines | Read More »

Made in Africa

Made in Africa

Une nouvelle petite venue dans la gamme des baskets branchées : Sawa. Ces tennis au look vintage sont entièrement fabriquées au Cameroun, avec des matériaux venus de pays africains : cuir du Nigéria, lacet de Tunisie, caoutchouc d’Egypte…
Pour une fois, pas de discours humanitaire, écologique ou autour du commerce équitable, le seul but de la [...]

Friday, March 19th, 2010 12:34 pm GMT +1 | Posted in Français, General, Headlines | Read More »

Cameroon novelist blasts her own book’s foreword

Cameroon novelist blasts her own book’s foreword

You’d think authors would jump at the chance to have their work introduced to a new audience. Not so for Cameroonian novelist Léonora Miano, whose recent work L’interieur de la nuit (or “Inside the Night”) was recently picked up by the University of Nebraska Press. The Guardian’s Richard Lea reports that Miano is less than [...]

Friday, March 19th, 2010 12:42 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, General, Headlines | Read More »

Freed Chinese hostages ‘traumatised’ by Cameroon captivity

Freed Chinese hostages ‘traumatised’ by Cameroon captivity

Seven Chinese hostages who were freed by an armed gang in Cameroon’s southwest Bakassi region arrived “traumatised” Thursday in Yaounde, the capital, Chinese source said.
The seven fishermen went straight to the Chinese embassy, where ambassador Xue Jinwei received them over lunch and listened to their six-day ordeal, a Chinese diplomat said.
“Even if they weren’t [...]

Friday, March 19th, 2010 12:16 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, General, Headlines | Read More »

Afflux de réfugiés centrafricains au Cameroun

Afflux de réfugiés centrafricains au Cameroun

Le Haut Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés signale que de plus en plus de ressortissants centrafricains cherchent refuge dans l’Est du Cameroun. Les éleveurs Mbororo de la République centrafricaine ont commencé à traverser la frontière Camerounaise il y a 5 ans, au moment où les rebelles volaient leur bétail et kidnappaient femmes et [...]

Friday, March 19th, 2010 12:11 am GMT +1 | Posted in Français, General | Read More »

CEEAC : 6,41 milliards USD à mobiliser pour le bitumage des routes inter-capitales

CEEAC : 6,41 milliards USD à mobiliser pour le bitumage des routes inter-capitales

YAOUNDE, 17 mars (Xinhua) – 3.205 milliards de francs CFA ( environ 6,41 milliards de dollars US) sont nécessaires pour compléter le bitumage de l’ensemble des liaisons routières inter- capitales des pays membres de la Communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique centrale (CEEAC), a estimé mardi le directeur du bureau sous-régional de la Commission économique [...]

Friday, March 19th, 2010 12:05 am GMT +1 | Posted in Français, General, Headlines | Read More »

Released Chinese nationals arrive in Limbe, all in good condition

Released Chinese nationals arrive in Limbe, all in good condition

The released Chinese nationals who were kidnapped in Cameroon days ago arrived in Cameroon’s port city Limbe late on Wednesday and the seven are all in good condition.
The Chinese nationals left the Bakassi peninsula by boat where they were released. Limbe is the port city of Cameroon in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Seven Chinese nationals on [...]

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 12:41 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, General | Read More »

Cameroon – Drug testing paradise for animals and humans

Cameroon – Drug testing paradise for animals and humans

A pig vaccine can eliminate the spread of a fatal form of brain disease known as neurocysticercosis. Tapeworm plays a vital role in the disease.

The disease causes cysts on the brain and spinal column – the most common cause of acquired epilepsy in the developing world where the parasite is endemic.
According to Irish Sun, pigs [...]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 04:53 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, General | Read More »

Ntui: Six personnes tuées par la foudre

Ntui: Six personnes tuées par la foudre

Une famille entière a été foudroyée dans son sommeil dans la nuit de samedi, au cours d’une grande pluie.
Sali, 40 ans, sa femme Fadimatou, la trentaine, et leurs quatre enfants, Sidiki, 18 ans, Daouda, 10 ans, Salamatou, 8 ans et Aminatou 2 ans, ne pourront plus profiter de la nature. Alors que beaucoup se réjouissent [...]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 03:10 pm GMT +1 | Posted in Français, General | Read More »