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Business in Cameroon | In Cameroon, more than XAF3,500 billion ($5.9 billion) will be needed to reconstruct the Anglophone regions, Jacques Fame Ndongo (photo), the ruling party (RDPC)’s secretary for communications, indicated last week. According to the secretary, who is also the country’s minister of higher education, the amount will …

Business in Cameroon | Today October 21, 2019, a delegation of French chocolate maker Puratos was in Ntui, in the Central region, Cameroonian Minister of commerce Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana reveals. The official reveals no detail about that visit in the region, which replaced the Southwest as national leader in …

Independent Catholic News | As the Anglophone uprising in Cameroon enters its fourth year, the Caritas Director, Father Paul Njokikang, has been arrested. His detention has been condemned by Lord Alton as a further assault on moderate voices within Anglophone civil society. In May, Father Paul testified at the United …

NPR | Much of Laetitia Tamko’s first album was her with a guitar singing about the search for home. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “FEAR & FORCE”) LAETITIA TAMKO: (Singing) I’ve been hiding in the smallest space. CHANG: The 26-year-old records as Vagabon. She was born in Cameroon, but she’s lived in …

KAIKAI, NORTHERN CAMEROON VOA | Heavy rains and floods this week have left at least 100,000 people homeless on both sides of the border between northern Cameroon and Chad. It’s the worst flooding in the area since 2012. the military is working to evacuate those stranded by floodwaters in Kaikai. …