DR Congo: Coach Florent Ibenge, four players test COVID-19 positive
The Democratic Republic of Congo will play their second match of the African Nations Championship against Lybia without the head coach Florent Ibenge Ikwanga and four key players of the team. The head coach and the players that include goalkeeper Ley Matampi, Guy Serge…
Cameroon: ‘Some Covid-19 Vaccines Have Shown Remarkable Efficacy
What meaning can we read into Covid-19 vaccines? Vaccines are less dangerous portions of disease-causing agents that are given to people to make them capable of staying healthy when exposed to the disease-causing agent again. That is, they would not fall sick if they…
World Bank Provides $97 Million to Strengthen COVID-19 Response and Reforms in the Education Sector in Cameroon
WASHINGTON, December 1, 2020 – The World Bank approved on November 24, 2020, an additional financing (AF) from the International Development Association (IDA) in the amount of $45 million to the Education Reform Support Project (ERSP) to support Cameroon’s efforts in promoting learning for all….
Effort Launched to Reunite Cameroonian Families, Children Separated by Crises
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON – Humanitarian organizations in Cameroon have launched a program to reunite with their families the increasing numbers of children who have fled the Boko Haram conflict and the separatist crisis in the English-speaking regions. The groups say the effort was launched after the…
COVID-19 Pandemic – Global Disaster Unleashing Africa’s Opportunity- Prof.Uwem Essia
1. Africa’s Health Economic Opportunity Major pharmaceutical firms are making claims of breakthroughs in the discovery of COVID-19 vaccines/drugs about 8 months after the pandemic was declared on March 11, 2020. As usual, the vaccines/drugs that ultimately receive the nod of the World Health Organization…
Cameroon Says COVID Worsens Diabetes Burden
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON – This year’s U.N. World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14 was observed in Cameroon with medical staff all over the central African state encouraging those with the disease to return to hospitals for treatment. Health workers say patients scared of COVID-19…
Cameroon Says Millions of Children Deprived of Birth Registration
FILE – Young Cameroonian refugees carry children in Agborkim town, Etung district of Cross Rivers State, southeast Nigeria, Feb. 2, 2018. Millions of Cameroonian children reportedly do not have required birth certificates.MAROUA, CAMEROON – Cameroon says more than 2 million children in the country of…
THE U.S. MUST NOT DEPORT PEOPLE TO CAMEROON
Amnesty International USA calls upon the Trump administration to refrain from deporting people to Cameroon, as the administration schedules deportations this week from Alexandria Airport in Louisiana. The organization is also concerned about the threat of imminent deportation of Cameroonians now being held at the…
Cameroon Reopens Schools After 7-month COVID Closure
YAOUNDE – More than seven million Cameroon children and their teachers have returned to schools for the first time since their institutions were closed to stop the spread of COVID-19, seven months ago. The government of the central African state says it has been able…
Cameroon Citizens Raised $40M for COVID Relief, But Where is It?
YAOUNDE – Cameroon has bowed to pressure from rights groups and ordered investigations into the management of the COVID-19 solidarity fund contributed to by civilians. The rights groups said most of the $40 million cash and material had been embezzled. An outcry was sparked after…
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