Yaounde Tit-bits:17-Year-Old Girl Stabbed To Death

By Leocadia Bongben

17-year-old Christelle Tchaptchet was Sunday January 3 killed some distance from the central town under circumstances not yet known.

Her sister, who is a journalist with one of the radio stations in Yaounde, explained that her sister left the house in the Tropicana neighbourhood at about 5 pm to do her hair in preparation for school on Monday. At about 11 pm, the family was jolted by a phone call from one of Christelle's friends indicating that the lifeless body of their daughter was found at Carrefour Awae.

As the sister explained, the girl was stabbed in the lower abdomen and in the chest. While the corpse is lying at the Yaounde Central Hospital mortuary, the judicial police have started investigations. Two of the young Christelle's teachers suspected to be implicated in the brutal murder have been arrested.

Parking Lot Rip-off

Following the institution of paid parking lots in Yaounde, defaulters continue to fall prey to the agents of the Yaounde City Council. Owners of impounded cars are now parting with from FCFA 50,000 upwards. But, if the owner is lucky to meet the people he/she pays FCFA 25,000 without any negotiation.

The space in front of the Chantal Biya International Research Centre, CIRCB, where there is a sign post indicating that parking is forbidden, is one of such spaces to avoid. One Tchaptang Rene was one of the victims recently. He had to cough FCFA 25,000 for a special iron to be removed from his car.

Transport Agencies AT Tongolo Stranded

Travel agencies in the Tongolo neighbourhood are stranded as rehabilitation work has started on that stretch of the road. Though some of the proprietors of the agencies say the city council did not inform them to quit, some acknowledge that they were told to move to the park at Olembe.

The problem with Olembe Park, they say, is that the site is not practicable. The rehabilitation work would last for 12 months. Inhabitants of Yaounde would testify that this part of the road had become an eyesore to the capital. Some drivers avoided this road. During the rainy season, certain parts of the road looked like swimming pools.

Mad Man Claims Authority Over Dustbin

A mad man, aka Eto Fils because he has an old ball with which he plays, who is camped close to a dustbin in the Melen neighbourhood, has laid claim on the dustbin. On January 4, he warned some photo laboratory workers who went to burn cuttings to stop burning their photos in the dustbin. Recently, he ran after some passersby who tried to look at the CDs in his "house" constructed with old cartons, baskets, empty crates and computer parts.

Cameroon Grapples With 50.000 Chadian Refugees

By Ernest Sumelong
About 50,000 refugees from Chad are camping in Kousseri, Far North Province of Cameroon, after they fled fighting that broke out between rebels and the Chadian army.
The Kousseri refugee camp is hosting hundreds of children refugee, of whom two have reportedly died due to harsh conditions.

Humanitarian organisations in Cameroon succouring the immigrants are reportedly finding it difficult to handle the increasing number of refugees streaming into the country. Responding to the need for health care, Cameroon's Minister of Public Health has dispatched a team of medics and Red Cross officials to offer relief services to the refugees.

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Before now, hundreds of refugees from neighbouring Central African Republic had also sought shelter in the East Province of Cameroon.Besides Cameroon, some of the Chadian refugees fled to neighbouring Nigeria. Some of them, The Post learned, are Sudanese refugees who had fled into Chad due to violence and hunger.

According to reports, about 1,000 people have already been wounded, while 700,000 inhabitants of the capital city have fled.Reports say rebels and forces loyal to President Idriss Deby were locked in a battle to win N'Djamena after the rebels attempted seizing the presidential palace to overthrow President Deby.

Meantime, Libyan President, Mohammad Gadaffi, is reportedly going to mediate between the rebels and the government. But, according to reports, the rebels said they would concede to a ceasefire if Deby steps down. Also, rebel forces have blamed France for intervening directly in the war with tankers and helicopters, causing civilian casualties.

On the other hand, Chadian officials have accused the Sudanese government of backing the rebels.According to Associated Press, AP, report, the UN Security Council has condemned the rebel attack on Chad and gave a green light for France and other countries to help the government repel the rebel forces.

It should be recalled that Idriss Deby seized power in 1990 in an uprising, overthrowing former Chad President, Issen Abre

Comments

[camers]

That's why southern cameroonians should not fool themseselves by thinking of war. People who suffer are just inocent people...

[red flag]

the reason why southern cameroons should wage a war is soundly because, the innocent are already suffering and dieing. and we are a colonized people. thats what colonized people all over the world do, fight for their freedom. if you care much about the innocent then log on to camerooon-infonet and write in french language that paul biya and his french men should live our territory fast.