PRI | The UN’s cultural agency, UNESCO, warns its name and logo are being illegally emblazoned on false documents to facilitate a scam to defraud prospective art buyers. Scammers have stolen $1.1 million from unwitting victims this year alone. Art pieces a scammer claimed were photographed in Cameroon and authorized …
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Business in Cameroon | At the end of the 2019 financial year, the Urban and Rural Land Development and Equipment Mission (Maetur) posted a net income of CFAF 202 million, compared to CFAF 126.36 million in 2018. This represents an increase of 59.8%. According to the public company, this upward …
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YAOUNDE VOA | In western Cameroon, hundreds of single mothers?protested this week against the cultural practice of forced marriage.?The women, who say their parents forced them into early marriage, called on authorities to help end the practice, saying it too often ends in broken families. Twenty-year-old single mother Metombemb Aicha …
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DAKAR/YAOUNDE (Reuters) – BY EDWARD MCALLISTER and Josiane Kouagheu – On the morning of April 24, Fritz Takang became so breathless he could barely walk across the cramped cell he shared with 60 inmates at the main prison in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde That night, he said, he was evacuated with …
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World Highways | A new Cameroon-Nigeria road link is being planned. A new road link connecting northern Cameroon with northern Nigeria is being planned. A substantial portion of the funding required will be provided via a new loan of US$186.4 million from the African Development Bank (AfDB). This latest loan …
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cgtn | A cholera outbreak has killed 12 people in the fishing village of Londji in south Cameroon, local health authorities said Wednesday. Officials also announced 62 confirmed cases out of 83 suspected ones in the village located about 15 km from the country’s seaside resort town of Kribi. South …
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