Cameroon: Graduating Nurses Told Golden Opportunities Await Them Nov 27, 2008
This message of hope was delivered Friday, December 7 at the Bamenda Congress Hall by Edward Ngalah, Coordinator of the Institute. "Capitol can today boast of more than 350 former students schooling and working in Europe, South Africa and the US," he announced. (allAfrica.com)
Can we stop maternal deaths? Oct 25, 2008
Israel Ambe Ayongwa, Bamenda, Cameroon. Excessive poverty and too much sex are the main culprits. (BBC News -- Health)
Cameroon: That Limbe Raid - What Ze Meka Never Said Oct 4, 2008
On the eve of this year's school reopening, thirty armed men operated successfully despite the presence of the Rapid Intervention forces in Bamenda ... For instance, two days after the attack, soldiers guarding a bank in Bamenda were asked by a female passerby whether they were not afraid. (allAfrica.com)
Cameroon: SCNC Says Arrests Won't Stop October 1 Celebration Sep 20, 2008
The activists, among them the controversial Professor Martin Chia, self styled promoter of a group working towards the liberation of Northern and Southern Cameroons from Nigeria and La Republique du Cameroun, were later transferred to the Bamenda Central Prison where they were still detained by press time ... The Professor Chia-led activists languishing at the Bamenda Central Prison were arrested on August 26 alongside some SCNC activists who were later released. (allAfrica.com)
Son of an MDC leader found beaten to death in Zimbabwe Jun 23, 2008
wan mar, BAMENDA, cameroon. I thought people in Africa believed in elections and not military rule. (Yahoo News -- Zimbabwe)
Cameroon: Local Inventor Makes Solar Incubators Jun 4, 2008
com: Cameroon: Incubators Made In Bamenda (Page 1 of 1) ... Cameroon: Incubators Made In Bamenda ... The local incubator is already tried and tested in the Bamenda General Hospital where it is used for premature babies and a phototherapy to take care of children suffering from jaundice. (allAfrica.com)
Opposition Leader May Meet Biya Mar 18, 2008
The need for the two political opponents to mend fences, was arrived at over the weekend in Bamenda following a two-day meeting of the highest decision making body of the Social Democratic Front, SDF, NEC, in Ntarinkon ... Tabali would want the Minister to say who kidnapped two Italians from Douala and brought them to Bamenda and where, specifically, they were released in Bamenda. (allAfrica.com)
Opposition Denies Role Mar 8, 2008
He blamed Biya for the killings in Bamenda during the strike, his (Biya's) arrogant tone while addressing the nation which seemed to send war signals. "If it means shooting or declaring war, who amongst them can withstand the SDF and the Cameroonian people? Let him not take Cameroonians for a ride," Fru Ndi stated. (allAfrica.com)
Cameroon: Calm Has Now Returned Mar 4, 2008
Immediately after President Paul Biya's address, the protesters, in Bamenda, for example, infiltrated by bandits, went amok, destroying and looting anything on their way ... In Bamenda, they ransacked all the offices of PMUC building owned by the SDF National Chairman, John Fru Ndi, on Commercial Avenue ... The angry youths proceeded to the Bamenda Urban Council, where Abel Ndeh's three cars were all razed. (allAfrica.com)
Deadly violence rages in Cameroon Feb 29, 2008
Barricades were erected in Yaounde, youths fought police in the port of Douala and three deaths were reported in the north-western town of Bamenda ... In Bamenda, mobs of angry young men turned up at boarding schools and demanded that the students join the demonstrators on the streets ... One of the dead in Bamenda is believed to be a teenage boy, who was shot dead. (BBC News)
Panic Grips Capital Feb 29, 2008
Reading this piece one would hardly think that similar events were happening in Douala, Bamenda, and other places in Cameroon at the same time. This sloppy journalism from. (allAfrica.com)
Cameroon head blames opposition Feb 28, 2008
Tear gas was also used to quell demonstrations in other cities like Bamenda and Yaounde. Opposition groups have been calling for protests to stop the constitution being amended to allow Mr Biya to run for re-election when his current term expires in 2011. (BBC News)
Cameroon:Unrest Spreads After Taxi Strike Ends Feb 28, 2008
In the northwest towns of Bamenda and Kumba demonstrations were also reported. "I saw hundreds of people marching in the street with posters," a resident of Kumba told IRIN by telephone on 27 February. (allAfrica.com)
Anti-government rioting spreads in Cameroon Feb 28, 2008
Anti-government protests were also reported in Bamenda in the northwest. Cameroon is the world's fourth largest cocoa producer; no details were immediately available on disruption to shipments. (International Herald Tribune)
Singing savioursCameroonians dance to the beat of anti-corruption music Dec 8, 2007
"You promised change; we are waiting for the change By the way, what do you want to change? The tax money you are swindling or the constitution? Hawkers are suffering in Bamenda... so where is the change you promised?" go Longue Longue's dance lyrics. The Makossa singer, who calls himself "The liberator of the Cameroonian people", warns in his 2007 song Le Serment. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'Two shot' in Cameroon taxi riot Oct 17, 2007
Drivers had invaded the centre of the town of Bamenda to protest at the alleged severe beating of a colleague detained at a police checkpoint ... "He was thoroughly beaten until he lost consciousness and one of his eyes," one Bamenda resident, who asked not to be named, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. (BBC News)
Spirit of the dancePhotos of dancing in Africa from BBC News website readers Oct 3, 2007
A young man dips a girl in the middle of the street in Bamenda, Cameroon, in this picture from reader Mia Briones. Daniel Price took this picture of a musician in Accra, Ghana, glistening with sweat as he plays music for people dancing. (BBC News -- Africa)
Cameroon: Ruling Party Wins in a Landslide Jul 25, 2007
The CPDM has won 12 of the councils notably those of Ndop, Wum, Bamenda I. The SDF has won in 17 councils notably those of Kumbo, Fundong, Nkambe and Bamenda II and III. The results of five municipal councils are still awaited. West. (allAfrica.com)
Flaws Reported in Cameroon Elections Jul 24, 2007
Away from Bamenda, the Santa area was on the focus with pockets of tension, wrangling and protests with some three people reported to have attempted to stuff ballot boxes with CPDM papers in the two Potato Store polling stations in Mbei village. Security was stepped up in Santa with the forces of law and order spotted virtually everywhere following earlier threats to jeopardize peace with a special eye on voters alleged to have been ferried from other divisions and provinces to inflate votes. (allAfrica.com)
Taking a standBBC award for man who got female genital mutilation banned Jun 9, 2007
British journalist and campaigner George Monbiot judged the entry by Cyril Ebie, from the small settlement of Mbemi - about 30km from the town of Bamenda in north-west Cameroon - as the overall winner. Ebie had written in describing how he defended his sister from the torture of female genital mutilation - an act that forced him to leave the family home with his sister for nine months. (BBC News -- Africa)
Reach for the skyShort people in Cameroon stand up for their rights May 16, 2007
By Francis Ngwa Niba BBC News, Bamenda, Cameroon. Short people in Bamenda, north-western Cameroon are joining together to campaign for an end to what they say is discrimination by their taller compatriots ... 60m (5'2"). This height limitation was increased from the original 1.56m, following protests from those who were taller than the intended limit but still considered themselves to be short people. Height restrictions Bamenda-based jurist and founding ASPC president, Jonathan Fru, 61, says... (BBC News)
Smell of deathBody and aircraft parts litter the swamp at the Cameroon crash site May 8, 2007
Another Cameroonian said he had not seen his wife since she left Bamenda for Douala on Thursday. She called him on Friday to say she was taking a flight to Kenya. (BBC News -- Africa)
Human Rights Practices in Cameroon - 2006 Mar 17, 2007
Gwanyin filed a motion for bail because of poor health, and, on August 18, the Bamenda Court of Appeals granted him bail ... On May 28, SDF vanguards from Bamenda stormed the party's head office in order to prevent the party's dissenting faction from holding a congress (see section 3) ... On August 23, the Bamenda Court sentenced the Bamenda judicial police commissioner to pay damages of $1,200 (600,000 CFA francs) to Edwin Nkwain Mbang for arbitrarily arresting and detaining him for 18 days in... (Ocnus.net)
EU plans job centres in Africa to try to stem flow of illegal migrants Feb 9, 2007
Ntobo Valentine, Bamenda, Cameroon. Many Africans have been trying to escape to European countries, simply because most of the African leaders are not sensitive to their economic plights. (BBC News -- Africa)
