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Full List Of Members of ELECAM

By Pamela Bidjocka

(Culled from CRTV website)

The President of the Republic yesterday signed two decrees, on Elections Cameroon, ELECAM. The first appoints the 12-member team of the body.
The members are:

Mbomba Nkolo Cecile
Njeuma nee Effange Dorothy Limunga
Sadou Daoudou nee Lady Bawa
Abdoulaye Babale
Adamou Ali
Ebanga Ewodo Justin
Efandene Bekono Pierre Roger
Ejake Mbonda Thomas
Fonkam Samuel Azu’u
Mana Nschwangele Jules
Massi Gams Dieudonne
Mbonda Eli

ELECAM Appointments: Looking at Mr Biya's Gift Horse in its Mouth

It's customary for some people to make presents to loved ones at the end of the year. President Paul Biya certainly had this in mind for his people (certainly his pals) when he finally appointed the members of the election management (supervisory) board - that is Elections Cameroon. Or did he? African home-training requires that if a father provides a gift one should not look too deeply at the matter. But can that hold in this case?

One Dead and 45 Injured at Stampede to Register for Police Exam

By George Esunge Fominyen

The year 2008 started with young people dying in the February riots. Many just wanted things to improve in Cameroon. The year is ending with a young person dying to register for an entrance exam into the national police. Elvis Wirba just wanted to beat the registration deadline and have an opportunity to obtain employment.

A Wrestling Competition to Start-off 2009 in Cameroon

By George Esunge Fominyen

The traditional wrestling season has re-started in Senegal. As the crowds roared at the Demba Diop Stadium as one wrestler fell and another stood the ground, I must admit there was a fleeting bit of envy that crossed my mind.

Why can't we have such a huge event in Cameroon?

I am pleased to say at least one traditional wrestling festival will hold in Buea, Cameroon.

Bomb Scare at Douala Airport?!

George Esunge Fominyen

Rather unusual occurrences have been replete in Cameroon in 2008. The most recent is this reported bomb scare on an Air France flight on the night of Monday 22 to Tuesday 23 at the Douala International Airport.

Hello 4-1-9 Man...Check out my Dog, Monkey and Baby Fey-Scam!

By George Esunge Fominyen

It is the end of the year and many persons are trying to make some fast money to celebrate properly. Like it or not, one means of getting rich quickly is setting up a scam through the Internet.  Of course, 4-1-9 and fey-men do not only wait for this moment but you surely receive more intriguing emails at this time of the year... A Cameroonian blogger - Kamer Stories -  weaved an interesting post entitled "see me trouble" based on a letter sent to the author's email box by one of these scammers. She told off the scammer: "My man think again, I'm not that gullible. Better luck next time ya". Evidently she thought the author was definitely Nigerian.

True.  Our Nigerian neighbours have made themselves infamous through racketeering via the Internet and other tools... BUT, it could have just been another Cameroonian. We are not so clean either! Our fey-mania has grown (or crossed?) from fake money-doubling deals to selling dogs and monkeys on the net and now we are offering abandoned babies for adoption. There is even a view that this is new capitalist model...

ICASA 2008 Lessons 2: Nutrition and HIV

By George Esunge Fominyen

 

 

 

 

Good nutrition is critical for people living with HIV and AIDS. It is described  as an essential co-therapy that can help maximize medical management of HIV. This message was constantly driven home by many speakers at the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa...

 

ICASA 2008: An Encounter with the Condom Project

By George Esunge Fominyen

One of the more captivating instances of the five days I spent covering the 15th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa is the moment I stumbled on this outfit wholly made of condoms. As I struggled to take out my camera to capture this work of art, I noticed there were people surrounding a lady who was involved in a kind of demonstration with gels and oils on a table that also had some condoms which people were smelling...

Just that day, one of the journalists on my team had spoken of the growing misconception in Mali that condoms were at the cause of the rising rate of HIV prevalence in the country. Could these persons clarify me on the issue? First, I took out my recorder, fitted my microphone and here is what I learnt talking to Joy Lynn Alegarbes, director of Global Operations, The Condom Project....

ICASA 2008 Lessons: The Role of Schools in this World with HIV

By George Esunge Fominyen

For many years programmes to tackle the spread of HIV and AIDS missed out on a vital and vulnerable member of the society: children. This was particularly so in African countries where discussing issues to do with with sexuality and reproduction have been a taboo for ages. As most policy makers as well as adults perceived HIV and AIDS as a very "sexual" problem, it became almost impossible to factor this sizeable group of persons: children.