L’impressionnant déploiement mobilisé pour y faire face s’est avéré très impuissante, et l’on estime les dégâts matériels à plusieurs milliards de Francs CFA.
Par Pierre Alexis Kaptchouang
C’est la veille de Noël ; et comme d’habitude, c’est déjà l’effervescence dans les marché où commerçants et acheteurs se battent chacun pour tirer son épingle du jeu. Mais hélas, cette effervescence s’est subitement convertie en scandale malheureux hier pour les milliers de commerçants qui ne savent déjà plus à quels saints se vouer. En effet, jusqu’ici, il est difficile de dire avec exactitude l’origine d’un incendie qui s’est déclaré hier au marché central de Douala, et a consumé plus de 4 blocs de l’est du marché. Selon des sources concordantes, c’est aux environs de 14hrs ce mardi 15 décembre que les premières que les premiers cris de détresse se sont faits entendre dans les grands bâtiments de ce marché réservé aux vêtements et aux chaussures prêt-à-porter.
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The Minister of Higher Education has launched entrance examinations for the selection of 20 pupil interpreters and 70 translators into the Advanced School of Translators and Interpreters of the University of Buea , to read for an MA in Interpretation and an MA in Translation. The entrance examination will be written on 3 and 4 September 2009 in Buea only.
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By Ben Nakomo
The President of the Republic of Cameroon has appointed a new cabinet. The Cabinet comprises of recycled older members of previous ministerial appointments. The appointments provide an indication that the President is already strategising for the 2011 presidential race or succession. Having dropped a seasoned economist Chief Ephraim Inoni as Prime Minister, the President is seen playing chess as he appoints Mr Philemon Yang to pacify the more vocal rulling CPDM party officials and boisterous opposition politicians, all from the northwest region, from where the new Prime Minister hails.
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A group of nine Cameroonians have been arrested for cheating a Chinese woman out of more than 267,000 yuan (US$39,265) in a "black money scam," Shenzhen police said yesterday. The nine people persuaded the woman, surnamed He from Fuzhou, Fujiang Province, into paying more than 267,000 yuan to purchase a "magic" chemical fluid that would restore US$5 million in bank notes that had been dyed black so they could be smuggled into China, police said.
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par Pierre-Alexis Kaptchouang
Le convoi des commerçants a été attaqué dans le village Belel Dibbi, alors qu’ils se rendaient dans un marché de la localité.La région de l’Adamaoua était récemment sous le choc du drame qui s’est produit lundi dernier autour de 10hrs sur l’axe Ngaoundéré – Meïnganga. La scène était plus qu’effroyable. Un convoi de dix voitures de commerçants se rendant au marché de Kognoli, une petite localité située entre Ngaoundéré et Meïnganga, et connu pour son marché de bétail florissant, est tombé dans une embuscade tendue par les coupeurs de route, alors qu’elle était sous escorte des éléments du bataillon léger d’intervention (BIR).
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WHO Bulletin
The global financial crisis could have profound implications for the health spending plans of national governments. Unless countries have safety nets in place, the poor and vulnerable will be the first to suffer. Jane Parry and Gary Humphreys report.
Dr Suwit Wibulpolprasert, senior adviser on disease control at Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, remembers the last time the wheels came off the global economy. “There was less travel and purchase of cars and motorcycles. Sales of alcohol – as well as tobacco – were reduced. These factors resulted in fewer deaths and injuries in road accidents,” he says.
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Fellow Cameroonians,
My dear compatriots,
At the beginning of the year now drawing to an end, we had every reason to believe that the time was ripe for us to devote our efforts to the attainment of our set objectives, namely the consolidation of our democratic institutions and the revival of our economic growth. In fact, the legislative and municipal elections had resulted in large and homogeneous majorities and furthermore, our economic recovery prospects were encouraging.
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