Society

The Parliamentary Network on Road Safety (LEGIS-SECU-ROUTE), led by Hon. Malomba Esembe Donald, MP for Buea Urban, has embarked on a crusade aimed at drastically reducing the number of road accidents along the highway. The Buea Urban MP has called on all stakeholders of various classes and trades, to ensure in their own way, that they contribute to reducing the number of accidents on roads.

Etombi Foundation has been officially launched during a ceremony presided at by Social Affairs Minister, Pauline Irene Nguene, who donated FCFA 1 million to the Foundation during fundraising.
Etombi Foundation’s Grand Launch and Fundraising occasion, attended by Southwest Governor, Buea Mayor, alongside several officials from the Social Affairs Ministry, took place at Buea Mountain Hotel last Saturday, March 20.

Women and girls in the Southwest town of Idenau have lauded the Rural Women Development Centre, RUWDEC, after participating in two successive mentorship and self-empowerment workshops organised by the women-centred non-governmental organisation.

March 14, saw the 5th annual commemoration of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW) in a live webinar summit. It was attended by over 1,200 people in 132 countries from all sectors of the society including, international organisation, Government, heads of women and youth groups

By Hope Nda The Rural Women Development Centre, RUWDEC, Friday, 19 February 2020, trained over 20 girls…

Kom is renowned as a very jealous preserver of its cultural values. It predominantly practices the matrilineal system of succession, and harbours the Afo-A- Kom statue, the statue which first gave fame to Cameroonian culture in 1963.
Foyn Ndzi II, via his envoy, Prince Ngam Nsom, was celebrating a grand Prince of the Kom Kingdom; a man who stands tall in the values of truth, justice, development, peace and unity. To Pa Tom Yong, these would not be simply words, but values upheld in practice, and transferred down to his Bobong community, Kom and the entire society, yet beginning with his 17 children, 49 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. In his usual humility, Tom Yong would cook for his guests and place the pot before them; and you better have the good sense of reserving some for the next unknown guest.

Christians, pastors, administrators of churches and institutions of the Cameroon Baptist Conversation across the nation assembled at Nkwen Baptist Church, Bamenda, on Sunday, January 10, to witness the induction and installation of the new executive committee.

Newly-appointed Bishop of Buea, Mgr Micheal Mansue Bibi, has expressed a firm commitment to work with the Catholic community of the diocese which he has served as Apostolic Administrator for a year now.
Bibi was declared Bishop on Tuesday, Jan. 5, during a brief occasion at the Regina Pacis Cathedral in Buea and will be leading the oldest Catholic Diocese in Cameroon.

The Lord My Shepherd Foundation, on Saturday, December 19 donated Christmas gifts and other relief items and…

With the escalation of the Anglophone crisis, traditional rulers in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, have continually been targeted by separatist fighters for either supporting a government initiative, or refusing to side with separatists’ agenda, or voting.
Also, traditional rulers seen by the government as weighing more on the separatists’ side of the divide, have been targeted and harassed by government forces. As a result, some have fled their palaces too, for fear of further harassment or prosecution.