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Political Change in Cameroon: Eric Chinje writes to media professionals and social media influencers.

Letter to media professionals and other social media influencers in Cameroon Dear colleagues, A deep thirst for change in the country: a role for the media… Dear friends, Dear colleagues, Cameroon finds itself at a critical crossroads in this 2025 election year. The political, economic, and social crises affecting the country have worsened to the

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Opinion

‘Ink in My Blood’ by Charlie Ndi Chia; A Passion that Rivalled the Flames of a Thousand Fires

By Colbert Gwain @The Colbert Factor We grew up in our compound in Jinaku-Muteff village, Fundong Municipality, North West Region of Cameroon, knowing that our father, Bobe Jude Thadeus Fulai Biyong, was a very rich timber merchant. We had mistakenly assumed that his close friend, Bobe Faie, who lived in mainland Abuh, was just using

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Opinion

The Unyielding Spirit of Pan-Africanism: Lumumba, Sankara, Gaddafi, and Nkrumah Live On

As Africans and Panafricanist, just celebrated another African day last May 25th, the Juba Global News Network, took advantage to recall that the recent anti colonial agitations witnessed around the continent are signs of the unyielding spirit of Panafricanism that lives on. Following is a recall of some of Africa’s Pan-Africanist actors that inspire today’s

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News Opinion

Africa’s AI Future: Rights, Risks, and Responsibilities

By Colbert Gwain in Bamenda, Cameroon Prior to the popularization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Africa, particularly in Cameroon, a significant amount of information about my village, Muteff, in the Fundong Subdivision of the Boyo Division, North West Region, existed online, especially on social media platforms. When I began exploring the AI world and its

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The concept of Donors and foreign funding in Africa, and the reality of who benefits: Africans or the donors?

Up till date, African leaders and intellectuals, are yet to fully understand the global concept of Foreign financing that has engulf this black continent since independence. Africans can sign a billion financing agreements, or what it takes, but it will not change the daily lives of common Africans, as 90% of this funding will leave

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News Opinion

Illicit Forest Exploitation : 96 New Bikes To Reinforce Surveillance

The bikes were bought with money from the Special Fund for Forest Development. The consignment was delivered to delegates in Yaounde on June 20, 2019. Government has provided forest guards with a consignment of motorcycles worth close to FCFA 900 million. Jules Doret Ndongo, Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, on June 20, handed over the

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Opinion

Fight Against Unemployment : Gov’t Rolls Out Priority Action Plan

The sector-based employment strategy to run from 2019 to 2023 was at the centre of the third session of the Employment Monitoring Inter-Ministerial Committee in Yaounde, July 10. A Priority Action Plan (PAP) to be implemented within the timeframe 2019-2023 has been put in place by government in a bid to boost the functioning of the labour market with

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