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Dambisa Moyo Says Foriegn Aid is Killing Africa

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Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian economist who has written an important book about a subject that many African thinkers have been discussing for a long time, namely: so called development aid has been devastating to Africa, by causing dependency and preventing real prosperity.

Kenyan intellectual Binyawanga Wainaina, a Kenyan intellectual has also articulated this topic very effectively. Moyo, herself a former World Bank official, reserves most of her dissaproval for the kind of aid that the World Bank traditionally provides: huge loans for massive projects that never seem to achieve their aim.

25 Years Ago... The April 6, 1984 Coup Proclamation

Here is the English version of the April 6, 1984 coup proclamation, reportedly written by Issa Adoum, the civilian head of the coup and former CEO of Fonader, who was executed in Mbalmayo on May 2, 1984. The proclamation was read on the national radio station in Yaounde by 2d Lt Yaya Adoum.

Rapid Intervention Unit Frees Hostages in Northern Cameroon

YAOUNDE, Cameroon -(Dow Jones)- Six Chadian and a Cameroonian taken hostage last week were freed Wednesday following an assault by Cameroon's anti-criminal Rapid Intervention Unit, or BIR, state-run Cameroon Radio Television reported Thursday.

Hostage-taking has increased in Cameroon's northern region after it was discovered that the area is very rich in petroleum.

The seven people were captured last week in Chadian territory, then whisked over into Cameroon's Far-North regional locality of Makassa, the radio said. Cameroon's three northern regions of Adamawa, North and Far-North are notorious for kidnappings by armed militias from Chad, Cameroon and the Republic of Central Africa.

Photo of the Week: Fon of Bamunka Receives Key to the City of Wilmington Delaware

His Royal Highness Fon John S. Njoya of Ndop-Bamunka

Exchange of Gifts with Honorable James Baker, Mayor of Wilmington, Delaware
Looking on, Dr Emmanuel Durosomo

USA - Cameroon Olympic Coach Resigns Amid Abuse Allegations

Associated Press - Former University of Rhode Island star and international coach Lazare Adingono resigned as assistant coach of the Canisius College men’s basketball team on Thursday, two months after being arrested on charges of using a belt to beat his 4-year-old son. Harvey Siegel, Adingono’s attorney, said Thursday his client submitted his letter of resignation, in which he wrote he wanted to “focus his undivided and full attention on family issues.”

Canisius athletic director Bill Maher confirmed that Adingono resigned but declined to provide details. Adingono had been on leave from the team since late February. He was in his third season at Canisius and last year coached the Cameroon national basketball team in the Olympic qualifying tournament last year.

United States to provide radar surveillance to Cameroonian coasts

Douala, Cameroon - Cameroonian coasts, especially the Bakassi peninsula (Southwest of the country), which has been the subject of terrorist attacks in the last months, will be under radar surveillance soon, diplomatic sources told PANA here.

According to Mrs. E. Garvey, the American Ambassador to Cameroon, the radar surveillance system will be set up in 2010 by the US, which is concerned, not only about the safety of Cameroonian coasts but also about that of the entire Gulf of Guinea, plagued by sea-hijackings.

Cameroon Cuts 2009 Growth Forecast to 3 Percent

By Tansa Musa

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon has cut its economic growth forecast for 2009 to 3 percent from a previous figure of 4 percent when the budget was prepared late last year, the country's prime minister said late on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni said the global slowdown had slashed Cameroon's earnings from oil revenues, was threatening large mining projects and risked aggravating poverty and unemployment in the country.

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How CRTV Covered the Pope's Visit to Cameroon

By Martin Jumbam

"On the whole, therefore, and only basing my judgment on the time I had the chance to listen to CRTV, which, admittedly, was not much, French-speaking journalists outshone their English-speaking colleagues in the way they covered the Holy Father's visit to our country."

A few days before the Holy Father's arrival in Cameroon, I did what I would, under normal circumstances, not do, that is, take the time to listen to CRTV radio or watch its television. However, since the Pope's visit was an extraordinary event, it called for extraordinary action on my part; and so I found myself sitting in my office one morning listening to a guest speaker on a CRTV morning French program.

Ireland: Cameroonian Couple get Suspended Sentence for Leaving Kids Home Alone

Originally published in Leinster Leader

A COUPLE from Kildare town who went on holidays to their native Cameroon and left their two children to fend for themselves were given six-month suspended sentences at Kildare District Court last week.

Gardai visiting their home on a date last June on another matter had found their ten-year-old son alone in the house. The parents had already been absent for the week, leaving the boy, and his 14-year-old sister, alone with some groceries and a credit card for emergencies.