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Cameroon Activists Push Gender Parity for Senate Elections

VOA | MAROUA, CAMEROON — Activists in Cameroon are urging more women candidates to enter races for Senate seats before a January 28 deadline. Only 26 members of Cameroon’s 100-member senate are women, a number advocates want to see doubled. But patriarchal beliefs and a lack of political support are …

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Cameroon Expects $33 Million From Cocoa Export Tax Revenue in 2023

MarketWatch | YAOUNDE, Cameroon–Cameroon expects to receive at least 20 billion CFA francs ($33 million) through the taxing of cocoa bean exports in 2023, the government said in its budget for 2023. According to the forecast, unprocessed cocoa beans being exported will be subject to a tax rate of 10%. …

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Toronto Raptors’ Rookie Koloko Dreams Of Playing For Cameroon

Boxscore News | TORONTO (January 16, 2023) – One thing that Christian Koloko is determined about is that playing for his Cameroonian national team remains one of his top priorities. When will that happen? It’s matter of time, he has revealed. Koloko featured in the 2017 Basketball Without Borders Africa …

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UFC releases heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou from contract, strips him of title

CBS | Ngannou and UFC have had ongoing contractual battles for years as he recovers from knee surgery. Francis Ngannou is no longer UFC heavyweight champion and now free to sign with any other combat sports promotion. Ngannou’s split from the UFC comes after more than a year of contract …

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Quebec police say killing of health care worker from Cameroon was a homicide

Global News | Quebec provincial police say they are investigating the death last week of a health-care worker from Cameroon as a homicide. The body of Nadine Flora Alinanyinyi, 34, was found Thursday in her apartment in Mont-St-Hilaire, Que., about 40 kilometres east of Montreal. A two-month-old baby was found unharmed …

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