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Eye care: UBA Cameroon, Acha Eye Hospital initiative benefits over 600
The Guardian Post
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The initiative is part of UBA Cameroon’s Corporate Social Responsibility activities, carried out in collaboration with Acha Eye Hospital. The Pan-African bank had announced plans to support over 1,500 free eye consultations. “If this momentum...
An Immigrant Perspective on the Meaning of Juneteenth
The Contra Costa Pulse - California
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June 23, 2025
Juneteenth parade in Greenville, North Carolina, in 2021. (City of Greenville photo / public domain / Flickr) Interview, Julian Do American Community Media Juneteenth, the federal holiday initially marking the emancipation of enslaved African...
At Canada Day celebration: High Commissioner lauds strong bilateral tie...
The Guardian Post
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She was speaking in Yaounde during the annual ceremony organised every July 1 to celebrate Canada Day. The event, celebrated on the theme: “We are Canada in Cameroon”, brought together government ministers, Members of Parliament, diplomats, and...
From porter to conservation leader, the inspiring journey of Marlyse Bebeguewa in Cameroon
Mongabay
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June 23, 2025
Marlyse Bebeguewa, once a teenage porter in the rainforests of southeastern Cameroon, now leads conservation monitoring efforts in Lobéké National Park, using cutting-edge tools to protect endangered wildlife. She was the only woman selected...
Douala: Orange Cameroun launches music contest for young talents
The Guardian Post
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Officials said the contest falls in line with the telecom company's zeal to celebrate music geniuses and leave a lasting legacy for the country’s cultural heritage. Orange Cameroun Events and Sponsoring Expert, Robert Ekotto, detailed that the...
Cameroon Among 36 Countries on Expanded U.S. Travel Ban Watchlist
Cameroon Online
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June 15, 2025
The Trump administration is weighing a dramatic expansion of its travel ban policy, with Cameroon included among 36 nations now under scrutiny. An internal State Department memo, recently reviewed by The Washington Post, outlines a 60-day window...
PM Dion Ngute gets enthusiastic welc...
The Guardian Post
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A cross section of administrative and traditional authorities alongside cultural groups, gave the PM, who is sojourning in the Region, an exceptional welcome at Matazem. The highpoint of visit is the 7th session of the Steering Committee of the...
Biya regime holds forum on AI opportunities, challenges
Cameroon Concord News
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July 8, 2025
A two-day forum opened in Cameroon on Monday to discuss the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) for the Central African country. According to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, which organized the event, the...
Children’s Education Crumbles as IPOB Fighters Exploit Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis
Cameroon Online
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June 13, 2025
Education Crumbles as Armed Conflict Deepens The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, now in its ninth year, continues to deteriorate. A recent investigation by HumAngle Media reveals that fighters from Nigeria’s Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have...
Children’s Education Suffers as IPOB Fighters Infiltrate Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis
HumAngle
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June 13, 2025
Nine years after the “Anglophone Crisis” in October 2016, violence has engulfed the northwestern and southwestern regions of Cameroon. The current crisis stage began with demonstrations by lawyers and teachers protesting against the...
Skills Acquisition: Way Forward For Nigeria’s Educational Development
Daily Independent
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June 22, 2025
2 “The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.” – Robert Greene As concerned Nigerians keep deliberating on the best way to navigate the twists and turns inherent in our education delivery system, if yours...
Of Dr Patience Abangma, Nyeme Mawn and a certain social media activist
Cameroon Intelligence Report
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June 21, 2025
In many parts of rural Africa in the past, communities gathered every evening in the village square for elders to share wisdom through folk tales. One of the lessons I took away from these gatherings with numerous senior citizens was that, in...
Éducation en péril : L’infiltration de l’IPOB aggrave la crise anglophone au Cameroun
Cameroon Online
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June 13, 2025
L’éducation s’effondre alors que le conflit armé s’intensifie La crise anglophone au Cameroun, qui entre dans sa neuvième année, continue de se détériorer. Une enquête récente de HumAngle Media révèle que des combattants issus du groupe...
Marco Rubio imposter: experts say AI deepfakes of voice and writing styles are 'dangerous escalation'
The National News
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Artificial intelligence was used to impersonate the voice of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and place calls to foreign ministers and American officials, the State Department confirmed on Tuesday, raising further concerns over the growing use of...
Street children are given different names that refer to same reality in French-speaking Africa
Global Voices
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June 20, 2025
A group of street children from Côte d'Ivoire stands around a woman tasked with helping the “microbe” gangs out of their current situation. Screenshot from the video ”Massendjé, the Microbe Mom” on the Droit Libre TV YouTube Channel Throughout...
TeensThink Essay Competition finale elevates African teen voices on AI and humanity
Business Day
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July 8, 2025
Barr. Abimbola Babatunde. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women Affairs, Children and Social Welfare, Osun State; Dr. Celestine Achi. AI Educator & Innovator and CEO Cihan Media Communications; Opabiyi Josephine from Federal College of Education,...
The Seminary with the Most Seminarians in the World (700) Dedicated to a French Laywoman
Zenit
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July 7, 2025
(ZENIT News – OMPress / Rome, 07.07.2025) – The Bigard Memorial Seminary in Enugu, Nigeria, has more than 700 seminarians, 548 diocesan and the rest, up to 700, from eight different Congregations, which entrust to this Seminary the formation of...
Armed groups in DR Congo still recruit children to their ranks
Crux Now
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June 20, 2025
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Grim statistics from a new SOPROAD, a French-languary development agency, report show that nearly 600 children have been forcibly recruited by armed groups in Lubero Territory, North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...
EU earmarks 150 billion FCFA for energy transition in Cameroon
The Guardian Post
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Gov’t has stepped up construction of hydro electric dams in response to energy transition The diplomat assured Cameroonians that transition to cleaner and less polluting forms of energy will affect their lives positively, as well as their future....
Fighting deforestation: Student uses org...
The Guardian Post
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Global Forest Watch indicates that Cameroon lost over 1.2 million hectares of tree cover between 2001 and 2024; a figure experts say can rise by 10% in 2025 if no meaningful interventions. The greatest threat facing these forests remain industrial...