Our Country is in Moral Decay, Our Country is in Economic Collapse, Our Country is in Financial Turmoil, and Our Country is in Political Shambles. All Cameroonians must join hands to rescue Cameroon from chaos. Every Cameroonian must ask himself why Our Country is so corrupt. Every Cameroonian must ask himself what he can do to stop corruption in Cameroon. Corruption is now part of our lives and it is no more seen as something horrible. Corruption is a cancer in Our System of life and if we do not stop it, it will spread and kill us. Unless we stop Corruption, we will never build a Cameroon of our dreams. Cameroon has won the corruption trophy twice, as the most corrupt country in the world. If we continue like this, we will certainly win this trophy a third time and keep this infamous world trophy. What a shame and disaster.
The people of Great Soppo within the Buea Municipality have raised resources in cash and in kind, for the construction of a museum and a council hall. The impromptu fund raising event was held on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at the Great Soppo Chief's Palace, when some concerned citizens came to pay New Year’s wishes to the chief, His Majesty Chief Etina Monono. The Chief welcomed the guests at his Palace and thanked them for their presence which to him, “showed concern on the wellbeing of Great Soppo.”
The Muammar Gaddafi African Economic Journalist [MG-AEJ] Award 2012 is open to online and print journalists in Africa who, through their work, contribute to a better public understanding of the value and benefits of economic freedom and the fight against economic apartheid in the last ten years. Nominations - together with two samples of work previously published should be emailed to cidrcam@gmail.com. All material should be received by Saturday, 30 June 2012. Eligible candidates may nominate themselves, while third-party nominations are also permitted. All entries will be judged by a panel of academics, journalists and business experts. The winner will receive a plaque and a cheque (in an African currency denomination) worth US$ 5,000 which will be donated on his/her behalf to any institution or charity of his/her choice. The MG-AEJ Award for Journalism will be presented at The Entrepreneur Business Week 2012 closing ngala, on 15 December 2012. For submissions and enquiries: cidrcam@gmail.com.
December 24, 2011 - In January of 2011, we were told that "spontaneous," "indigenous" uprising had begun sweeping North Africa and the Middle East in what was hailed as the "Arab Spring." It would be almost four months before the corporate-media would admit that the US had been behind the uprisings and that they were anything but "spontaneous," or "indigenous."....
The year 2011 was surely the year of the dupe. Youth enamored with lofty, naive notions of "freedom" sold to them by corporate-fascist funded NGOs were brought into the streets to create chaos and division which was then capitalized on by covert political and even military maneuvering by the West and its proxy forces. In Egypt the nation is teetering on the edge of being fully integrated into the Wall Street/London international order, while a big-oil representative is enjoying his new position as prime minister of Libya. In Tunisia a life-long stooge of Western machinations is now president, and an alarming campaign of NATO-backed violence and terrorism is gripping Syria....
With the encirclement of Russia and China, these dupes have witlessly brought the world to the edge of World War III, and clearly done nothing at all to improve their own state of being. As their nations fall under the control of increasing Western influence, the resources once used to placate them and defend their nationalism will now be diverted into the bottomless maw of the parasitic banking combines that are currently destroying both North America and Europe....More
The University of Buea in Cameroon, graduated its sixteenth batch of students on Saturday, December 17, 2011. Christened 'Generation of Hope,'who have been called upon to be good ambassadors of the institution', the graduation marked an important milestone in the life of the University. Presiding over the convocation ceremony on behalf of the Minister of Higher Education, Prof. Jacques Fame Ndongo, the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Buea, Prof. Maurice Tchuente while congratulating the graduands said, 'the training they have received in UB meets international standards.' He however urged them to put the skills they have acquired into good use in order to construct a solid foundation for their professional lives. He cautioned them to ''focus on that which is essential'' and continue with this principle as they move into the world.
Globalization has often been accused of handing over power to the financial markets, depriving democracy of all substance and bringing about the current global economic instabilities. Therefore, a debate has arisen over its opposite: deglobalization. In order to face crises such as the one in Greece, Portugal or Spain, the deglobalization movement proposes to reconstitute national sovereignty. In this piece of le Monde diplomatique, Jean-Marie Harribey argues that, although globalization has brought about economic disaster, deglobalization is not the answer either. The global crisis is more than the sum of national crises and thus, no national solution will ever manage to tackle current problems. The struggle against climate change is only one of the many issues illustrating this. What is needed is a form of "alter-globalization," which, while scrutinizing globalization, does not advocate its direct opposite...More
The US political right has campaigned fervently and, according to polls, successfully, to frame climate change as an anti-capitalist conspiracy that will lead to economic self-destruction. The right-wing's nefarious success, notes author Naomi Klein, is ultimately not based on the exploitation of feigned scientific disagreement, but on the image of impending economic doom. The populist strategy's success contains the unintended, yet valuable, lesson that climate change is not really about nature in the first place. It is rather about "the central fiction on which our economic model is based: that nature is limitless." According to Klein, "the climate movement" should now take advantage of the globally vehement questioning of capitalism. We must develop a new "civilizational paradigm" that looks beyond "green products" and market-led solutions...More
During His inaugural speech November 3rd, 2011 as, president-elect of the Republic of Cameroon on the occasion of the swearing-in ceremony before the National Assembly, President Biya placed his new seven years mandate under the banner of “major accomplishments.” The Entrepreneur NewsOnline [TENO] caught up with Dr David Makongo President of Makongo & African Partners LLC who are Experts in Africa Mining and Oil and Gas Issues, to find out more on Cameroon's economic development strategies, especially the Mining Sector which the government expects to reap revenue to fund planned programmes:
The Entrepreneur NewsOnline [TENO]: Does this mean President Paul Biya will have to change the mining law and policy of Cameroon so in order to realize his “major accomplishments”?
David Makongo: In the1980s and 1990s most African nations reviewed their mining codes to benefit from globalization and privatization. Though Cameroon also hinted a possible review of the 1964 post-colonial mining code, this never happened till 2001. So, I will say Cameroon did not take immediate advantage of the wind of change that was blowing in Africa mining regimes so it stayed a step behind other African nations with equal mining potential.
While images of Africa’s poverty and disease are regularly shown in western media, the corporations responsible for the continuous exploitation of the land’s mineral and human resources resulting in Africa’s dreadful condition see the world’s largest continent as the land of opportunity...Emira Woods, director of Foreign Policy in Focus for the Washington D.C. based Institute for Policy Studies says the strategic resources coming out the African continent are the prize, the African people are the victims and multinational corporations driven by excessive greed are the culprits...More
Small men. Big ideas. Glamorous wives. The similarities between Nicolas Sarkozy - the son of a Hungarian immigrant - and Napoleon are uncanny – and now have been explored in a book by France's foremost political commentator....Both will be remembered as vertically challenged men in a vertiginous hurry. Both were helped into power by beautiful wives, with whom they quarrelled. Both believed that they had a destiny to rebuild France and, above all, to change the way the French think of themselves. Both are known for a weakness for kitsch and anything that glitters....Both came from non-French, minor aristocratic backgrounds and despised the Parisian elite. Both had, from the start of their career, an obsession with image and grasped the importance of controlling the media. Physical stature alone has inevitably encouraged comparisons between Napoleon Bonaparte and Nicolas Sarkozy. President Sarkozy is almost exactly the same height as L'Empéreur, about 5ft 6in, which was, in fact, respectably tall in Napoleon's day...More
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