CIN The Minister of Labour and Social Security has invited the National Executive Committee of the Cameroon Agricultural and Allied Workers Trade Union (CAAWOTU) to a concertation meeting Tuesday, 02 February 2021.
The meeting to take place at the conference room of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security follows threats of strike action in the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC.
On January 30, 2021, Madam Galega née Njiwam Anyangwe, Technical Adviser No. 2 in the Ministry of Labor and Social Security addressed a letter to Gabriel Mbene Vefonge, National President of CAAWOTU, informing him about the concertation meeting convened by the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Gregoire Owona.
Luam Valentine Ex-separatist fighters lodged at the National Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, NDDR, Centre in Buea ran wild Monday, February 1, 2021, blocking traffic along the Mermoz- Bokwango stretch of road.
The repentant combatants said they were living in dire conditions at the DDR Centre, the opposite of the promises government made at the time it launched the program.
Those familiar with the situation say poor living conditions and the lack of adequate training in trades that can offer them opportunities to be reintegrated into the employment market led to the protest.
Aside from calling on the government to hastily reintegrate them into the job market, they asked that their living conditions at the DDR Centre be improved.
Reserved The Vatican’s Secretary of State ended his two-day trip to Cameroon’s northwestern town of Bamenda on Sunday after preaching a sermon of peace in a region blighted by clashes between government forces and armed separatists.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin jetted into Bamenda on Saturday in the heart of a lockdown imposed by separatists. When he flew out of Bamenda on Sunday, he had delivered his message of peace, dialogue, and reconciliation to the population and authorities.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s visit to Cameroon runs from January 28 to February 3. The Vatican Secretary of State met with President Paul Biya on Friday, shortly after a meeting with Bishops.
Reserved Mgr. Andrew Fuanya Nkea, Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bamenda painted a picture of the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon gripped by an armed conflict that is into its fourth year.
The priest was speaking Sunday, January 31, 2021, at the St. Joseph s Cathedral Mankon during a holy mass celebrated by the Cardinal Secretary of State of the Vatican, His Eminence Pietro Cardinal Parolin.
Below is the entirety of the speech of archbishop Nkea delivered moments before the pallium was imposed on him.
Given that the Mass for the Imposition of the Pallium took place within the context of a lockdown imposed by separatists to foil the occasion, Archbishop Nkea saluted the courage of the thousands who turned out to witness the august ceremony.
Archives The Cameroon military has been faulted for killing four teenagers in Meta Quarters, a locale in Mankon, Cameroon’s northwestern city of Bamenda.
The Voice and other local media outlets quoted eyewitnesses as saying that soldiers killed the quartet point-blank around 2:00 pm on Saturday, January 23, 2021.
The soldiers were in search of armed separatists in the area when the incident happened.
Three of the four victims, Ngalim Alucious, Ntakah Nelly Mbah, and Sale Sadam are residents of Old Town while the fought, Brian, lived in Meta Quarters.
According to eyewitnesses, soldiers found the teenagers smoking weed in an uncompleted building.