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Cameroonian musician Lapiro de Mbanga comments on his situation in the prison, and on his cause. The video interview was recorded by Freedom to Create in the prison in Cameroon in November 2009. In September 2008, Lapiro was sentenced to three years imprisonment. Sharing a cell with more than 50 persons, Lapiro’s health has deteriorated [...]
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 04:06 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, Society | Read More »
Toutes les 10 minutes, un(e) Camerounaise(s) est contaminé(e) pat le Vih, soit six nouvelles infections par heure. Le Cameroun bat le record en Afrique centrale et de l’Ouest avec un taux de prévalence estimé à 5,1%, contre 3,9 en Côte d’Ivoire, 3,3% au Togo; 3,1% au Nigéria et moins de 2% pour le Burkina Faso, [...]
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 01:31 am GMT +1 | Posted in Français, Headlines, Society | Read More »
Bureaucratic hurdles have made him the longest serving African-origin detainee in Delhi. He’s also the only Cameroonian ever to be lodged at northwest Delhi’s Lampur detention centre on a drug peddling charge since July 2008. However, two years after he was arrested from south Delhi’s Mehrauli, 35-year-old Mofo Rene is far from feeling special. He’s [...]
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 01:15 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, Society | Read More »
Il y a deux mois, Ernest N. 35 ans a été pris en flagrant délit de sodomie sur un enfant de10 ans par son voisin. Ernest N. ne reconnaît pas les faits qui lui sont reprochés et plaide non coupable. « Je n’ai pas abusé sexuellement de cet enfant monsieur le président », clame-t-il haut [...]
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 12:45 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned about the condition of the former editor of the weekly Le Devoir, Robert Mintya, who was taken from Yaoundé’s Kondengui prison to a hospital on 25 August, more than two weeks after being seriously injured in an attack by a fellow inmate in his cell. The press freedom organisation [...]
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 01:26 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »
le collectif 3kokoricos expose ses oeuvres au Centre Culturel Français François Villon de Yaoundé au Cameroun du 08au 30 septembre 2010 Cette exposition sera la première du dit collectif d’artistes constitués de : Aza Mansongi, Samuel Dallé, kristine Tsala Ainsi donc,le thème choisi est :”From village to town”. ”From village to town’‘ c’est une vue [...]
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 03:34 am GMT +1 | Posted in General, Society | Read More »
In the western world, cataract operations are considered routine procedures. In Israel alone, some 40,000 such operations are performed yearly. Just a few hours’ flight from here, however, thousands of people suffer from cataracts and blindness. Two RHCC ophthalmologists, Dr. Yoav Berger, a senior physician, and Dr. Sergiu Socea, chief resident at the Department of [...]
Monday, August 30th, 2010 01:10 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Society | Read More »
A côté des aspects protocolaires, les obsèques de Suzanne Mbomback ont connu des moments de tension entre les autorités administratives et traditionnelles. En effet, samedi dernier autour de 12h, alors que les membres du gouvernement arrivent à Nkolnkumu, par Nkolbisson, pour l’adieu à l’ex-Minproff, deux garçons, environ 6 et 7 ans, sont traînés par des [...]
Monday, August 30th, 2010 01:04 pm GMT +1 | Posted in Français, Headlines, Society | Read More »
Supplementary pipes on the way to speed up degassing process. «Speed up the degassing process of Lake Nyos for Survivors to resettle in the land of their ancestors”. That is the message straight from Nyos and neighbourhoods 24 years after the killer lake produced horror with about 1800 people killed. The explosion on August 21, [...]
Monday, August 30th, 2010 12:58 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »
The young worker allegedly carted away two pieces of luggage belonging to a woman who had just arrived from Britain. A young man who works as a temporary staff with the Yaounde-Nsimalen International Airport was recently picked up by airport police for allegedly stealing two pieces of luggage belonging to a woman who had arrived [...]
Friday, August 27th, 2010 01:48 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »