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There was every evidence at the end of the First Round Table Conference of Investors and other actors on the Kribi Deep Sea Port, that investors will participate in the building of the project. This assurance was made last Friday in Yaounde by the Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Louis Paul Motaze. (AllAfrica)

In eight days time, the nation will be marking an important milestone in its history: the 36th anniversary of the advent of the unitary state. (AllAfrica)

And so, history repeated itself last Saturday. The elective General Assembly of the Cameroon Music Corporation turned out to be just what sceptics had predicted. A medley of chaos! Rules of the game were openly butchered, the supervisory body hushed, while some "big" musicians threw their hard-earned respect into the dustbin and embraced the role of puppets. What cacophony! (AllAfrica)

There are heightened efforts and a strong political will in Cameroon to clean up the country from all forms of corrupt practices and embezzlement of public funds. (AllAfrica)

Week-long activities to mark the 61st World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day and the 45th Cameroon Red cross Day ended with a gala night in Yaounde last Saturday. (AllAfrica)

The staff of the Prime Minister's Office now know fully well that they must be more assiduous, punctual at work, show exemplary behaviour and intensify team work as they each contribute to ensure that the Prime Minister's Office effectively coordinates government activities. The qualities would enable them treat files entrusted to them with more efficiency and to the satisfaction of diverse users of their services. (AllAfrica)

Late Ambassador Christopher Nsahlai's last journey on earth and funeral in the land of his ancestors, Mantum-Kifom, Jakiri Sub division was a crowd puller. Civil, political and religious authorities filed out to bury their brother, father, friend ,hero and comrade. (AllAfrica)

Globalisation has come to stay even if people keep thinking that they can look for alternatives to go around the phenomenon of change that it imposes. The information super highway has resolutely imposed a new pattern on world issues and communities to the extent that developing countries, such as Cameroon, have the burden to adopt their institutions and production capacities to meet up with the challenges of quality and quantity that modern exigencies demand. (AllAfrica)

One of the principal the first challenge for Cameroon is to produce more food. Yes, more food to feed its people at the time demand is fast outweighing supply and foreign partners on whom the country had hitherto depended are declaring their intension to stop exporting food. (AllAfrica)

Though Cotonsport did not play on the 24th day of play of the ongoing MTN Elite one championship yesterday due of her involvement in the African Champions League, Canon Yaounde failed to use the opportunity to close the three point gap separating them from the leader. (AllAfrica)

A delegation from the Korean company, POSDATA, is in Cameroon to evaluate the needs and conduct technical studies in view of installing digital broadcasting and management in the Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV) television. (AllAfrica)

The ambassador of the European Union in Cameroon, Javier Puyol, has said, the EU is Cameroon's first business partner. He said relations between the EU and Cameroon evolves through the Economic Partnership Agreement, EPA, whose principal objective is to foster development. (AllAfrica)

Stakeholders in the dairy sector in Cameroon met in Yaounde last Friday under the guidance of the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries to work out a strategy to step up dairy production with particular focus on milk. (AllAfrica)

YAOUNDE Friday, April 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Local production of basic foods in Cameroon will double in the next two years if an emergency programme announced by the government on 24 April achieves its goals. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, April 16, 2008 (IRIN) - High food prices have brought social unrest but they have also provided a "window of opportunity" to review global policies on the response to food insecurity, said a leading food aid analyst as experts and aid agencies began an unprecedented strategic re-think at a three-day meeting in Rome on 16 April. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Friday, April 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Rely more on local produce to cut food import bills and provide subsidised inputs to boost production, advised the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as it announced measures to help poor countries, many of which will now have to pay 74 percent more for food - up by US$6 billion from February 2008. (irinnews.org)

DUBAI Tuesday, April 08, 2008 (IRIN) - Global demand for humanitarian assistance is likely to grow in the coming decade because of climate change, warned John Holmes, UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, April 08, 2008 (IRIN) - Recent attacks on Somali, Zimbabwean and Mozambican migrants in South Africa have been labeled xenophobic: but could the violence point to a much bigger problem than fear of the foreign, a problem much closer to home? (irinnews.org)

ADDIS ABABA Monday, April 07, 2008 (IRIN) - Tayech Ali arrived half an hour before the grain distribution centre in Gojam Berenda, in the capital, Addis Ababa, opened, but still had to queue for three hours before she could buy some wheat. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Monday, April 07, 2008 (IRIN) - Food prices have the potential to change regimes and the course of history. When Marie Antoinette allegedly said, "Let them eat cake" in 1789, she was wondering why higher bread prices were causing so much trouble in Paris. (irinnews.org)

BANGKOK Monday, April 07, 2008 (IRIN) - Countries, mostly in the developing world could spend between US$6 to $18 billion a year by 2030 to manage additional costs to health services as a result of climate change, according to independent research cited by a World Health Organisation (WHO) official, hence the need for rich countries responsible for global warming to help pay towards these additional health costs. (irinnews.org)

NEW YORK Sunday, April 06, 2008 (IRIN) - With soaring food prices expected to continue for the foreseeable future, the World Bank is calling for a “new deal� of long-term measures, ranging from increased investment in African agriculture to genetically engineering fuel-producing plants. (irinnews.org)

DUBAI Thursday, April 03, 2008 (IRIN) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given US$26.8 million to Cornell University in the USA for a new global project to fight wheat (stem) rust disease, which specialists say poses a threat to world food security. (irinnews.org)

DUBAI Thursday, March 27, 2008 (IRIN) - The Ug99 strain of the killer wheat fungus (stem rust), which recently infected wheat farms in western Iran, is a serious threat to global food security, agricultural scientists have warned. They have said the fungus may affect additional wheat-producing countries. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Friday, March 21, 2008 (IRIN) - If West African governments are serious about reducing migration from their countries they must invest in improving living conditions and reducing inequality, according to sociologists, economists and other experts meeting in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, this week. (irinnews.org)

The Government Delegate to the Douala City Council, Fritz Ntone Ntone, in a bid to clear off petit traders from the road side in Douala created kiosks in collaboration with certain companies. via AllAfrica.com

The Church of the Province of West Africa meeting in Douala, Cameroon, on the 11th day of April, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Eight, having considered very carefully, among other pressing and very ... via Thinking Anglicans

DAKAR Thursday, March 13, 2008 (IRIN) - Member states of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) are set to agree on ways to reduce poverty and revise their charter to address the huge imbalance in wealth between rich and poor countries in the Islamic world at a summit meeting this week in the Senegalese capital Dakar. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Thursday, March 13, 2008 (IRIN) - More than 60 Islamic non-governmental organisations gathered in Senegal this week met with leaders of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) who agreed that it would play a greater role in providing humanitarian assistance to Islamic countries. (irinnews.org)

YAOUNDÉ Thursday, March 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Traffic jams and urban bustle have returned to main towns and cities in the west and centre of Cameroon, belying the violence that just weeks earlier left many people there dead and a general population so scared most did not leave their homes for several days. Yet human rights groups remain concerned that the government is employing heavy-handed tactics in clamping down on the media and arresting and imprisoning hundreds, possibly thousands, of youth who they say are not receiving due process. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, March 05, 2008 (IRIN) - As food prices hit record highs, analysts warn that a re-think of food aid strategies is needed - and Ethiopia, a traditionally food insecure country, could offer some answers. (irinnews.org)