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Combating Sexual Abuse: ICT University VC, Beauty Queens Urge Students To Condemn Act

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ICT University VC In A Family Photo With Beauty Queens After The Anti- Sexual Abuse Seminar  By Raymond Dingana Students of the ICT University in Yaounde Cameroon have been urged to join the fight against sexual harassment, by denouncing cases of  sexual exploitations and other forms of inappropriate behaviors in the school environment. The call was echoed during a seminar organised by the ICT University to educate students and staff on what sexual abuse is all about and its consequences. The workshop was also an opportunity to inform the public that the phenomenon of sexual misuse is prohibited at ICT University and must be strongly condemned in all its facets. The sensitisation that was to prepare students and staff for a harmless teaching-learning environment, comes ahead of the start of Fall Semester (October 2023) at the ICT University wherein admissions are ongoing to end on September 29, 2023. Discussions during the training seminar that held under the theme:" Sexual Harass

Isangele Health Center In Need Of Committed Personnel To Curb Infant And Maternal Mortality

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One Of The Dead Babies Being Laid To Rest In Isangele  By Raymond Dingana Expectant mothers in Isangele Sub Division of the Bakassi Peninsula, South West Region of Cameroon are going through tough times as those recruited and paid to save lives in the Isangele Health Center have not been up to date with their activities. This has had a heavy toll on patients especially pregnant women who have seen their babies die simple because the competent hands are always irregular at work. The most recent case happened on August 23,2023 when life was snuffed out of some new born babies because those to ensure they survive were absent from their duty post at the time their pregnant mothers got to the hospital. The nurse that was present in the health centre at that time confessed she wasn’t fit to handle such situations. As indicated in an audio clip that has gone viral on the social media coming from a Rev. Father in Isangele, the situation is in dire need of attention else it could get out of han

Bamenyam Inhabitants Block Roads, Demand Release Of Kidnapped Girls

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Stranded Vehicles At Bamenyam, West Region Of Cameroon   By Raymond Dingana The road linking Bamenyam in the West Region of Cameroon with Bali Gashu, Bali Kumbat, Bali Gansi, Awing all in the crisis hit North West Region of the country is yet to be reopened after members of the village vigilante community mounted roadblocks protesting the kidnapping of villagers. According to TFY News, two girls were abducted on Sunday September 3,2023 by unidentified individuals with accusing fingers pointing at suspected separatist fighters. This didn't go do down well with the population of that area who alongside the village vigilante (anti gang) blocked the roads saying only the release of the victims would give them reason to reopen the roads. At press time, witnesses say learners who were supposed to have resumed classes out of the North West Region were still held in Bamenyam village. Administrative Authorities At The Scene To Try And Ease Tensions Among those affected by the roadblocks are

Bafut: Smile Educational Foundation Fortifies Kids For Back To School With Didactics,Others

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  By Raymond Dingana Ever since the the Anglophone Crisis metamorphosed in to a deadly arm conflict, one of it's biggest casualties has been the education sector. This explains why year year out, Non governmental organizations have not only been crusading for the rights to education to be respected by all, they have also be supporting learners with back to school needs. This was the case in Nsoh Bafut where Smile Educational Foundation (SEF) put smiles on the faces of learners and parents with school material.  English, Arithmetic and French textbooks, exercise books, school bags, pens, pencils, rulers, just to name but these were handed to over 100 school children, Saturday September 2,2023 in Nsoh Bafut. Smile Educational Foundation also facilitated the teaching process of four schools by donating didactics, Food stuff to energize the children as they go to school was also donated. First Deputy Mayor Bafut Council, Mariam Lum Chesi Handing Over Didactics To Schools The beneficiar

Anglophone Crisis: CAWOPEM Supports Kedjom Keku Kidnapped Women With Relief Aid

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  Family Photo With CAWOPEM And Female Survivors In Kedjom Keku (Big Babanki) By Raymond Dingana  It was a huge smile that suddenly appeared on the faces of survivors of the recent separatists cruelty on women in Kedjom Keku (Big Babanki), when members of the Cameroon Women Peace Movement, CAWOPEM arrived the crisis hit village in the North West Region of Cameroon. The atmosphere in Kedjom Keku was not as it were before the recent happenings that saw a huge number of soldiers deployed to the village after the women were molested by armed men. Many have fled, explaining the scanty nature of the village. Members of CAWOPEM were there to provide Medical and Psychosocial Support to those they christened, Mothers of Big Babanki. At the village community hall in the Fon's Palace, they were exposed to talking therapy, giving them an opportunity to express how they felt during and after what they went through. This exercise was managed by Boyo Maurine, a Counselor who said it was a healing

Ndichia Foundation Simplifies Back To School For Over 200 Orphans, PWDs, IDPs

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By Raymond Dingana and Ngong Song Jean Marie Ndichia Foundation has facilitates back to school to over 200  Primary and Secondary School children, mostly orphans persons with disabilities with didactic material ahead of the 2022/2023 academic year. The kids received back to school kits comprising books, pens, pencils, rulers and sharpeners that will help prepare them for the start of the school year This was Tuesday August 8, 2023 during a back to school campaign that brought together children from Ntankah, Ntamulung and Mulang who have been displaced by the Anglophone crisis from the seven divisions of the North West Region of Cameroon. Speaking at the St. Edmund’s Catholic Church Mulang where the donation took place,  Rev.Father Anthony Ndang said Rev Fr Anthony Ndang, representative of Ndichia Foundation appreciated the donors and partners for their love and generosity to children who can now look forward to a new academic year with hope. Fr. Ndang invited the children to study har

Resolving Anglophone Crisis: PM Dion Ngute Enjoins Sepatatists To Down Arms

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PM Dion Ngute Facing The Press In Buea By Raymond Dingana At a time when the Anglophone Crisis continues to destroy lives and properties in the North West [NW] and South West [SW] Regions of Cameroon, how to end the impasse has been top on the agenda of persons of good will. During his visit to Buea, South West Region of Cameroon, Prime Minister, Chief Dr Joseph Dion Ngute invited Separatist fighters still engaged in the war to create a country they call Ambazonia to follow the example of some of their former brothers in arms, and drop their weapons.  Joseph Dion Ngute made the call in Buea on August 12, where he presided over the 5th Committee Meeting on the follow-up of recommendations of the Major National Dialogue which focused on developing a new approach to pursue in order to revive the NW and SW regions economically.  In this light, the PM said separatist fighters who are still actively fighting against government forces, should follow the example of those who have dropped their