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Bamenda I Council mayor Mbigha Felix bags Home 2022 Innovative Peace Icon Award

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By Martial Gnoukapasir  Mayor Mbigha Felix receives Award from Herald Tribune Publisher Nde Richard Lajong The award ceremony handed over to the mayor salutes his inspiring ingenuity in galvanizing the population of his municipality to beat security threats, thereby creating an enabling environment for development. Dubbed the Herald Tribune Excellence Award " the colorful ceremony of Saturday April 29, which took place at the Club 58 premises in Bamenda, saluted hard work, sportsmanship, community movers and shakers, local development experts, entrepreneurship etc. Worthy of note is that, mayor Mbigha Felix in his distinguished administrative style has manage to return the Bamenda I municipality to normalcy. Hardly will one these days, hear of separatists attacks or other security challenges that had before rocked this municipality. To also note that Mayor Mbigha Felix, few weeks back, received a standing ovation from commission charged with the follow up and execution of public i...

Anglophone Crisis: Popular Bamenda Radio Host, Rights Defender Receives Multiple Death Threats

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By Martial Gnoukapasir  image courtesy of IFJ Known to be daring in his outings and for constantly castigating, denouncing and documenting cases of human rights abuses, including kidnappings for ransome, unlawful arrests and detention, maimings, extrajudicial killings by both state and non state actors in the ongoing anglophone armed conflict facing the north west region of Cameroon, popular investigative Bamenda radio host Colbert Gwain, who doubles as content creator of the online news portal-The Colbert Factor, has continue to receive death threats to his life and that of his family. For the past few months, the host of the flagship political radio program have been confessing to colleagues,  brandishing threat  messages forwarded to him  and his family from unknown sources, for outrightly speaking on the cases of violations in the conflict that has rocked the two English-speaking regions for seven years and counting. The threats doubled recently, when he decried and publish an inve...