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By Nai Vonna. Adolescents receiving lectures on HIV/AIDS Some 15 adolescent girls and young women have been drilled on using their voices to advocate for the inclusion of Adolescent Girls and Young Women AGYW in decision making processes, especially within The Global Fund Processes for HIV/AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights SRHR services provision. Thanks to a workshop organised within the framework of the'Her Voice Matters: Give Her the Space to Fight’ Project' executed by COMAGEND Cameroon with funds from Her Voice and partners. The Strategic Planning Workshop, was declared open by the Country lead for the 'Her Voice Funds' Mme Waah Clotilda the founder/CEO of the Center for Advocacy in Gender and Development CAGEAD. Speaking during the event she notes that, " many adolescent girls and young women live through very hard situations because of the decisions taken on their behalf, and so it is very important that these girls understand what happens to them

By Martial Gnoukapasi Mourners In group picture General manager of Cameroon's telecommunications service (CAMTEL)- Ma fo'o Judith Yah Sunday epouse Achidi tuesday Nov. 24th, joined Queen Mothers of the North West region to condemn in strongest terms the constant killing of "Our" children since arms were introduced into the conflict in restive NW and SW regions of the country. The Ma fo'os after over an hour prayer session- soliciting God's interferance in bringing actors of the conflict to reason, via a memorandum also called on the belligerents to drop the guns and stop the violence. " Our offspring have been dying in their numbers because of this violence and we come to pray that the killing should stop.. Never again should children be targeted in this violence, Never again should we be comforted for what could've been prevented.. " the MeMo spells out. Queen mothers expressing their frustrations with crafted messages They came out with poster

By Roseline Obah Cohort 3 fellows receiving lessons Fellows of the Cohort 3 Africa Fact-checking Fellowship (AFF) Cameroon made up of  journalists and bloggers have been challenged to move out of their comfort zones and be of veritable service towards a Hate-free Cameroon.  This was at the end of a two-day “Discovery,” session in Douala November 20 -21, 2020.   While baptizing the 3rd batch  at the end of the session, the Country Director of DefyHateNow, Desmond Ngala, remains hopeful that the media professionals will dare to be different after embracing professional skills  that will enhance their reporting and also ensure a hate-free society.  Cohort 3 fellow receiving lectures Desmond Ngala went further to encourage the Fellows to work together on issues around fact- checking, misinformation, disinformation, mal-information and hate speech, concerns  according to him, are timely especially with the effect these have had on the escalating nature of the crisis especially in the two En

By Pechuqui Laurata. Traders receiving protective gear Some 27 men and women at the Bamenda-food market north west region of Cameroon have received facemasks to help protect themselves against the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in their communities. The gesture from the Centre for Strategic Communication, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development-CESCOMPSUD was executed by one of the Center's Volunteers, Pechuqui Laurata at the behest of the center's director Mrs Akah Roseline Obah. According to the executive director, traders are most at risk of being infected by the virus, since they come in contact with different sets of people on daily basis. "Trader more often render public services to hundreds of customers daily who come to buy food commodity and other household items. In the process of these transactions, they have to deal with communicating with this number or persons and usually will surely have saliva come out of their mouths while in conversation and  bargaini

By Martial Gnoukapasi Joseph Beti Assomo reviewing troops during working visit Minister delegate at the presidency in charge of defence Joseph Beti Assomo says 3 of the 9 armed men involved in the gruesome murder of school children at the Mother Francisca college in fiango-kumba on October 24th this year, have been killed, following a number of investigations and missions carried out by the military on high instructions of the commander in-chief of arm forces president Paul Biya. He made the information known Friday Nov. 20th in a meeting bringing together security stakeholders of the north west region in Bamenda. For the close to 30 minutes that the security conclave was open to the press, minister Beti Assomo, who led the joint military mission said the purpose of embarking on the working visit, was to meet and convey the head of states message of encouragement to security elements in the region for the laudable job they've been doing, some of whom have lost their lives in the

By Martial Gnoukapasi Photo credit- Primus Ayeh Cross section of members analyzing impact of crisis on population. North West Chapter Members of the Cameroon Community Media Network(CCMN)-a network of media men and women that have embraced the humanitarian approach to news reporting in an attempt to minimize the negative effects of the conflict in the north west and south west regions of Cameroon, have taken a firm commitment to raise more awareness on the need to protect young girls especially Idp's against sexual exploitation and abuse. They took the commitment, tuesday Nov.17th during one of their routine network meetings in Bamenda.  The members also took out time to look at the impact of the crisis on the political, economic and socio-cultural lifestyle of the people in the region and beyond. Group I Analysis Their analysis of the conflict within a timeframe of over 3 months revealed that though there's been a gradual recovery in economic activities, some basic commodities

By Martial Gnoukapasi. NW chief of statistics, Fotue Sebastien The north west regional chief of statistics Fotue Sabastien says statistics is primordial in the ongoing fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in the country. He was speaking Wednesday November 18th during activities to mark the 30th anniversary of the African Statistics Day in the region. "Without statistics it won't be possible for decision makers to plan, evaluate and decide if it's necessary to change strategies or not. It's thanks to it that decisions to improve the quality of healthcare offered Covid-19 patients in the country were taken" The director further states that with support from funders, two major surveys evaluating the impact of the pandemic on households, enterprises, on regional and local institutions were carried out. Report on SDG indicators in NWR The results he acknowledged, were very instrumental in helping government offer support to some councils and enterprises. Observed unde