By Kini Nsom
The government of Cameroon has accused the victims of the 1992 post-election violence of hinging their claims on false allegations at the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. In a submission tabled at the African Court last March 30, the government qualified as false claims that the victims failed to have justice in Cameroon.
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By Willibroad B. Nformi
Probatoire and Baccalaureate examiners who converged at the GTHS Ombe marking centre, were recently thrown into a frenzy following repeated calls for them to return to their respective institutions for a census.
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By Francis Tim Mbom
The Permanent Secretary in the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HE N.U.O. Wadibia Anyanwu (Mrs), has reassured Cameroonians of Nigeria's commitment to pursue a peaceful resolution of all existing areas of misunderstandings between the two countries, and also to open up new frontiers for more fruitful relations.
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By Kini Nsom
The Minister of State for Planning, Programming and Regional Development, Augustin Frederic Kodock, has described the International NGO, the Yaounde Initiative Foundation, YIF, as a solution to socio-economic impediments in Cameroon.
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Barrister Ben Muna
In Africa, South of the 
Sahara, the Republic of Nigeria and the Republic of South Africa have established themselves as the two big powers that are able to make their weight felt on the continent of Africa. Since the birth of a democratic South Africa, Mandela, followed by Thabo Mbeki, have clearly shown a consistent quest for peace and
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Victor Arthur Max Tamko
It is absolutely necessary to introduce and to develop comparative law studies in our universities, if we hope to harmonise our laws one day. On February 29, 1964, two commissions were created for this purpose. Alas! Forty years have gone by and we are still on the runway just preparing for a take-off.
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By Peterkins Manyong & Jeff Ngawe Yufenyu
The Cameroon Teachers'
Trade Union, CATTU, has described the ongoing census of teachers carried out by government as a scheme to waste time and siphon public funds. Simon Nkwenti, CATTU's Executive Secretary, made this declaration during a press conference on Tuesday, June 27, a day after a meeting by the Union's Council.
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By Mirabel Azangeh Tandafor
The representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Cameroon, UNHCR, Jacques Franquin, has said the Cameroonian Parliament needs to adopt a law on refugees. He made the call recently during a press conference that followed
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By Pegue Manga
The morning was cold, with rain slanting down the slopes of Mt. Fako. It was just the propitious moment for a hot cup of tea. It was even colder in Likoko Membea, a small village tucked away on the foot of the volcano, where Charles Mbella Moki, Mayor of Buea Rural Council,resides.
Buea Mayor and US students at end of visit
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By Francis Tim Mbom
Fako Divisional Treasurer, Angoula Mbassi Ananias, has said Cameroonians need to work harder and even pray for the country to reach the HIPC Completion Point in order to qualify for debt relief. Angoula, who took over from Peter Bonako Nasako (presently in detention for alleged misappropriation of treasury money), was speaking to The Post in his Bota office on Tuesday, June 28.
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For quite sometime now, the rumbling sound of artillery gunfire has been the mellifluous music of the Bakassi creeks. The smell of war fouls the air. And the people languish under the vain frantic furry of unfriendly cross-fire.
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By Clovis Atatah
Techniques of Corruption (VIII)
In the fifth instalment of this serial, I promised to revisit the phenomenon of over-billing. I believe over-billing is one of the major causes of Cameroon's economic woes. It is practised at all levels of the administration. Let me begin with an anecdote. On a bright day in
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By Mirabel Azangeh Tandafor
The Cameroonian hip-hop music group, Kund'eyala has released its first ever album. The album, which is composed of nine songs, was presented to the Douala public last week at a press conference in Bali.
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By Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Your military might of World War I and II can no longer carry the dayThat is clear; for how can you be so rich, America, so powerful,
And yet these days, you are always taking such a terrible drubbing
At the weak hands of smaller nations that happen also to be very poor?
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By Walter Wilson Nana
The management of SPECTRUM TELEVISION, STV, has said that the successful end of the first season of the talent-search-show, La Classe, has taken STV one more step ahead in the audio-visual media landscape in Cameroon and across the African continent.
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By Chris Mbunwe
CRAT-Cameroon, an International Human Rights NGO, June 26 donated food and other items to some 500 inmates of the Bamenda Central Prison. The gifts included bags of rice, salt, magi cube and some tablets of soap. The occasion, was the United Nations International Day in support of victims of torture.
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By Pegue Manga With Field Reports
British police, June 20, confiscated two symbolic coffins from Cameroonian demonstrators in front of the Cameroon High Commission in Holland Park, London, England.
Police and demonstrators face-off over coffins draped in Cameroon flag (Picture courtesy of icicemac.com).
The coffins attributed to Aloysius Ambouer and Gilbert Nforlem, two students shot dead by security forces on April 28, during a one-month students' strike that rocked the University of Buea, were carried through the streets of London by over 50 Cameroonian demonstrators.
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By Chris Mbunwe
The Vice Chairman of the Southern Cameroons People Organisation, SCAPO, Augustine F. Ndangam, has described the opening of an SCNC Embassy in Yaounde as an "irritating and disheartening joke" that may attract far-reaching repercussions on the current diplomatic offensives, which are already yielding fruits.
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By Kini Nsom
Members Parliament, MPs, jeered and booed the Minister of Planning, Programming and Regional Development, Augustin-Frederic Kodock, June 25, when he said that government was kind of helpless in the face of abandoned development projects in the country.
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By Walter Wilson Nana
Nzo Ekangaki, former Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity OAU, who died in Yaounde, Friday, June 3 at 71, has been buried in his home village, Nguti, Southwest Province. The funeral service and burial took place Saturday, June 25.
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By Peterkins Manyong
Mbororos, Fulanis Hausas and Akus in the Northwest Province, have lamented the high rate of banditry and prostitution now threatening to destroy their society. At a heavily attended Ardo Conference that held in Bamenda, Saturday, June 18, youths of these ethnic groups attributed these vices to the prevalence of illiteracy and
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By Kini Nsom
The Vice Prime Minister in charge of Justice and Keeper of the Seal, Ahmadou Ali, joined Members of Parliament, MPs, at the National Assembly on June 24 to make a first hand reading of the bill on the criminal procedure code.It was a rear event in which the Committee of the whole House was in session.
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Interviewed by Kini Nsom & Clovis Atatah
The Chairman of the
Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, Chief Ayamba Ette Otun, has said the SCNC is not in factions. “The rest of those people who call themselves SCNC leaders don’t have the mandate. They were not elected,” he argues. Ayamba also said
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Prince Paddy Awonfor, Mutengene
A lot has been said "for " and "against " the students’ strike of the University of Buea, which ended in blood shed. That human blood was spilled in and around the University in the name of a diabolical strike is not only unfortunate, but also shameful for a university that has become known as "the place to be".
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Officer, SDO, for Mezam, Robertson Tardo, has said Benjamin V. Vubangsi who was enthroned Fon of Kedjom Keku village in Tubah Sub-division, risks being arrested. Tardo made this statement on June 24 during a meeting that held at the Mezam SDO's Conference Hall, Up-Station, Bamenda. 
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