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Household Waste management & Urban Agriculture & Energy
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Dear all,
There is an alarming rate of urbanisation in Africa and the realities of urban food insecurity, extreme povert, sanitation and hygiene management staring us in the face is just enormous to ignore.

It is rather sad but more evident that there is a potential for catastrophic food insecurity at the level of African cities in particular and LDCs in general..

Yet, this situation can engender sources of inspiration for very innovative farmeworks and practices in urban household waste management.More than evr before, we have an enormous potential to harness organic waste and intensively develope marginal urban agricultural areas to be thriving centres of plenty in terms of quality and quantity of agricultural production.

The key lies in very simple yet proactive options in organic household waste maangment, human waste recycling and reuse and a holistic approach to waste management in urban, peri-urban and rural areas of the LDCs.Of such very prromising methods is the ECOSAN technology!

As such,I hope to share and learn more about the correlation, complexities and connectivity between Urban Agriculture Energy and Waste Management especially in Less Developed Countries with particular focus on Africa.

Basically, I hope to introduce nad reorientate urban household waste management cultures. Work on varied and crossfaceted views on the role urban agriculture can play in food security for urban dwellers especially in LDCs.
-build sustainable ways and means of improving agricultural production by the use of conventional waste resources such as: feaces, waste water and other organic substances.
-Strengthen livelihoods nad build new avenuse for wealth creation, employment and civic engagement.

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Climate Change: African Leaders Urged To Speak With One Voice
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The Pan African Parliamentarians’ Network on Climate Change has urged the continent’s leaders to adopt a common position during the Copenhagen conference.

African Parliamentarians want the continent’s leaders to increase the number of negotiators, adopt a common position and speak with once voice in order to obtain a fair deal during the UN conference on climate change scheduled for December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The President of the Permanent Executive Committee of the Pan African Parliamentarians’ Network on Climate Change (PAPNCC), Cameroonian –born, Hon. Awudu Mbaya Cyprian made the declaration yesterday, June 29 after presenting the 13-member executive committee of the network to the Speaker of Cameroon’s National Assembly, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril. The executive committee was put in place during the PAPNCC conference that took place in Yaounde from June 25-27, 2009.

After the audience with the House Speaker, Hon. Awudu Mbaya also presented the executive committee of PAPNCC and the Yaounde declaration made after their conference to Prime Minister, Head of Government, Ephraim Inoni. He also used the audience to inform the Head of Government of the choice of Cameroon to host the headquarters of the Pan African Parliamentarians’ Network on Climate Change.

Hon. Awudu Mbaya had almost an identical message to the press after the audiences with the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister. He said that for Africa to be given a just, equitable and favourable deal during the Copenhagen conference organised to review the Kyto Protocol, part of the UN Convention on climate change, “Africa must have a common stand and speak with one voice”. African Parliamentarians, he said, resolved during the Yaounde conference to go back, sensitise and keep their respective governments and parliaments informed of the need to increase the number of negotiators and to speak with one voice at Copenhagen. They would also sensitise other parliaments and countries to effectively join the fight against climate change. This is because Africa that contributes less than four percent to the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that cause climate change, suffers most from its negative effects.

The Pan African Parliamentarians’ Network on Climate Change has requested Cameroon’s House Speaker, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril to transmit the Yaounde declaration of the network’s conference to the assembly of African Heads of State who will meet for the African Union summit in Sirte, Libya from July 1-3, 2009.

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Assemblée nationale : la session de juin s'achève
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National Parliament: the session of June is completed
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C? is with L? adoption of the two bills filed in by the government relating to L? cleansing of the real sector that the second legislative session of L? year was enclosed yesterday, in evening. Indeed, texts on the sale D? were buildings to be built and the hiring-accession with the real estate adopted with the course D? plenary surging, in the presence of the Minister for the urban Development and L? Habitat, Clobert Tchatat. In its closing speech, the president of L? Did national Parliament, Cavaye Yeguié Djibril, make the assessment D? a “full and rich” session. It especially exhorted the members of Parliament to link their efforts, whatever the political edges, in order to leave the “zone of turbulence” in which currently Cameroun and the whole world are. We will return with more details on the lessons of this session in our next www.cameroon-tribune.cm

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Biens mal acquis: la piste camerounaise
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Badly acquired goods: the Cameronian track
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Will Cameroun be the next African country shaken by the business of the “badly acquired goods”? To date, the legal procedure which aims at determining the “French” inheritance of certain Heads of State limits to Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville and Equatorial Guinea. But the catholic Committee against the hunger and for development (CCFD), an ONG which played a release part in the first investigation, is interested from now on in Cameroun of Paul Biya, with the capacity since 1982.
In his report/ratio made public this Wednesday June 24, the committee evokes in particular “splendid Villa Isis”, in Roquebrune-Cape-Martin (the Alpes-Maritimes), pertaining seems it in Franck Biya, the son of the president. Questioned by the Express train, the entourage of this last answers that there is “nothing abnormal for a man who directs an important forest company”. More surprising: the CCFD also wonders about the assistance of Cameroun in Osti, a esoteric organization whose name had appeared, in 1999, in the investigations on the sect about the solar temple.
Osti (sovereign Order of the initiatory temple) was founded in 1988 per Raymond Bernard. This man deceased in 2006 was known for his maconnic rosicrucians activities, templières and, but also for his financial bonds with the French-speaking Black Africa. Being presented in the form of a “adviser” of Paul Biya, it affirmed, in 1998, that this one was a honorary president of Circes (one of the branches of Osti) in its country and was thus shown very “generous” in its connection.
In 1990, it would have even helped the organization to acquire its Parisian seat, street Beaunier (XIVe). The amount of the loan? 40 million frank, refundable in 99 years and without interests! Part of this sum had then been poured by the national Company of hydrocarbons, a Cameronian publicly-owned establishment, on the account of Raymond Bernard to the Crédit Lyonnais.
Questioned on this point, the presidency denies any relation with the templiers and ensures “never not to have authorized such a loan”. Only problem: Osti itself, requested by the Express train, does not dispute to have received 40 million frank Paul Biya. The current person in charge for association, Yves Jayet, even indicates to us, by email, that this loan “is the subject of important refundings entered each year since 1999”!? The large Master does not specify who is the recipient of refundings.
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UN youth info
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WELCOME to the UN Youth Flash, a service of the United Nations Programme on
Youth to keep you informed about the work of the UN on youth issues. You are
encouraged to use and forward the information below to other networks. This
update is prepared with input from UN offices, agencies, funds and
programmes. UN Youth Flash can also be read on-line at: http://
www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/flash.htm.

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Cameroon sees diamond mine starting in 2010
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Cameroon expects to become a significant diamond exporter from next year when it starts mining deposits discovered in the southeast, a senior official said on Thursday. The discovery of gem quality and industrial diamonds was made by a joint Cameroon-Korean company, C&K Mining Inc., at Mobilong, close to the border with Congo Republic and the Central African Republic. ‘The probable reserves are estimated at 736 million carats and will make Cameroon a leading diamond exporter when exploitation begins before the end of 2010 as we expect,’ Oscar Matip, director of mines and geology, told reporters. Output would be about 1 million carats in the first year but is expected to rise to 6 million carats at its peak. Botswana’s Debswana, the world’s biggest diamond miner by value, has the capacity to produce about 33 million carats of the precious stones a year.

C&K Mining was created in 2005 as a joint venture between South Korea’s C&C Mining and the government of Cameroon. The Korean firm owns 80 percent of shares and Cameroon 20 percent.

Matip said the company would present its feasibility study on Mobilong later this year, following which an exploitation licence could be granted so mining could begin.

Diamond demand has been hit by the global financial crisis, but the world’s largest diamond group, De Beers, 45 percent owned by Anglo American PLC has increased output in the second quarter after earlier cuts. De Beers owns half of Debswana.

Cameroon has been trying to diversify its economy away from crude oil, which accounts for around half of export earnings. It is also a producer of agricultural commodities including cocoa and coffee.

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Capturing the Cameroon sound
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If nothing else, history will retain that André-Marie Tala sued James Brown for plagiarism - and won. It stemmed from a 1973 incident when Brown was touring in West Africa. In Cameroon, the young Tala - an emerging local singer and guitarist - handed Brown a demo copy of “Hot Koki,’’ a hard-funk number he had composed.Two years later, Brown dropped “Hustle!!!’’ - with the same melody, beat, and arrangements, only with English lyrics. An American court found in Tala’s favor, ruling that the Godfather of Soul had used his work without permission.But Tala deserves much more than just a footnote on music litigation. For his prolific output, influence, and longevity, he’s been as essential to Cameroonian music as a Salif Keita has been to Mali, or a King Sunny Adé to Nigeria.Blind since age 15, he’s been compared to Stevie Wonder; like Wonder, he’s blessed with a smooth, inviting voice and far-reaching artistic curiosity. In the 1970s he played rock and funk.
Yet Tala is little known outside Africa, and almost not at all here. A four-city tour that opens tonight at Club Lido in Revere aims to remedy that. It features Tala; Emile Kangue, a top figure of makossa, Cameroon’s biggest pop style; and Jacob Nguni, who played guitar with Prince Nico on the pan-African classic “Sweet Mother.’’

On the phone from Cameroon, Tala - who is based in Paris but travels back frequently - says the Brown incident illustrated a level of cross-fertilization between America and African music in the ’70s that listeners today might not appreciate.

“Cameroon is a very open country,’’ he says. “We always welcomed anything that came from outside. We listened religiously to the Beatles or Ray Charles. I forged myself listening to rhythm & blues, to Muddy Waters, Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding.’’

Tala’s early sound also drew on rhythms from his own Bamiléké ethnic group, as well as French chanson. One early hit, “Je Vais à Yaoundé,’’ a tale of people leaving the village to seek fortune, is a masterpiece of the French ballad style.

“There were various factions and camps at that time,’’ Tala says. “Some people didn’t want to make French music because they didn’t find it as advanced as American soul. But I paid attention to everything without prejudice.’’

The late 1970s was a fruitful time in African music, as high commodity prices kept money flowing and governments and the emerging urban middle class helped sustain legendary bands in many countries.

Cameroon was no exception. Among its big stars were Tala, makossa icons Manu Dibango and Moni Bilé, and Les Black Styl’, the makossa ensemble that Emile Kangue led before going solo in the early 1980s.

With long, sinuous songs, call-and-response sequences, and prominent guitar and horn sections, makossa was Cameroon’s cousin to soukouss from nearby Congo.

“Makossa in Cameroon is like soccer,’’ says Jean-Bosco Tagne, the Boston-based Cameroonian scientist who organized and promoted this tour. “And Kangue is makossa, with his melodies and his big voice.’’

But times grew hard when collapsing crop prices, economic austerity, and the devaluation of the regional currency drastically reduced opportunities to perform and support large bands.

By 1997, Kangue was weary of the struggle. Toward the end of a US tour, a promoter suggested he stay and make a fresh start. He took the plunge.

“I had opportunities in South Africa and other places,’’ Kangue says. “But it was always a dream to come to the United States. The challenge was to start from nothing and to find work. In Cameroon I could go for months between shows, and I didn’t have to work for anyone.’’

Not so in Atlanta. The revered bandleader, whose videos showed him in dapper suits, emerging from fancy cars in places like Paris and London, started riding the bus in the Georgia dawn to a warehouse job where he packed reams of sales fliers. Next he became a sales associate at an OfficeMax, rising to supervisor of the electronics department. After five years, he moved on to Dollar General, where he is now an assistant regional manager.

One day, he says, he finally invited a friendly supervisor to a party, where she was stunned to see him play for an adoring crowd.

“She absolutely went crazy,’’ he says. “The next day she brought our whole team together and said, ‘Do you realize Emile is a star?’ ’’

Today, Kangue has found balance between his new and old lives. He has a green card and travels back to Cameroon, as well as to France to record.

His friend Tala, meanwhile, has responded to economic change in his own way: He embraced bend-skin - a bare-bones local style made, in its simplest form, with found percussions - and gave it a fuller, more polished feel and a message of empowerment.

“Africa needs to invest in its own means,’’ Tala says. “We need to develop our culture industry.’’

As for that James Brown incident? No hard feelings. In fact, Tala says, before Brown’s death in late 2006, representatives of the two men had started hatching plans for a joint appearance, singing “Hot Koki’’ and “Hustle!!!’’ together.

“Of course I forgive him!’’ Tala says. “I was lucky to have met him, and I was lucky that he plagiarized my work. Who wouldn’t want to be copied by James Brown?’’

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Affaire Lapiro de Mbanga - La peine de trois ans confirmée en appel
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Trois ans d’emprisonnement ferme et 280 millions de Fcfa de dommages et intérêts.Telle est la substance de l’arrêt rendu mercredi soir autour de 21h30 par la Cour d’appel du Littoral, dans le cadre de l’affaire qui oppose le ministère public, la Spm, le ministère des Finances à Lambo Sandjo Pierre Roger alias Lapiro de Mbanga. Pour ce qui est des intérêts civils prononcés par la Cour d’appel, ils sont répartis ainsi qu’il suit : 200 millions de F pour la Société des Plantations de Mbanga (SPM), dont l’absence à l’audience a été considérée par la Cour d’Appel comme un signe d’acquiescement de la première décision, et 80 millions de F pour le ministère des Finances qui a formulé une demande supplémentaire. Cet arrêt est la confirmation du premier jugement rendu le 24 septembre de l’année dernière, par le tribunal de grande instance de Nkongsamba.

Cet artiste-musicien avait été reconnu coupable d’attroupement sur la voie publique et de pillage en bande. Hier, la Cour d’appel du Littoral a reconduit les infractions pour lesquelles le ministère public a requis la peine liée au crime de pillage en bande, et dont la peine est comprise entre 10 et 20 ans.
Par ailleurs, le représentant du ministère des Finances, pris en la personne de son conseil Me Faustin Ntede, a formulé une demande supplémentaire sur les intérêts civils devant être alloués à son client, soit la bagatelle de 60 millions qui représentent les valeurs actives telles que de l’argent en espèces, et les valeurs inactives liées au mobilier détruit lors de la destruction du centre divisionnaire des impôts de Mbanga, ainsi que les charges locatives consécutives à la destruction du siège des impôts à Mbanga. Cette demande a été considérée comme tardive, et rejetée.



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UK: Cameroon leeds insurance fraudster jailed
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An Insurance claims handler from Leeds who swindled more than £38,000 from his employers has been jailed. Royal Bank of Scotland employee Raoul Tagne worked at the company’s Direct Line insurance office on the Headrow, Leeds Crown Court heard. Tagne, of Kendal Drive, Halton Moor, also worked as a claims handler at breakdown rescue business Green Flag in Pudsey. Prosecutor Michael Smith said Tagne was responsible for handling claims from motorists who broke down while driving abroad.Tagne had authority to instruct garages to do work on behalf of policy holders and invoice Green Flag. Father-of-three Tagne created accounts for false service providers and submitted fake invoices.The court heard 13 payments were made to false accounts between March 2005 and November 2006.The total value of cash stolen from Royal Bank of Scotland was 55,000 Euros or just over £38,000.

Tagne, who admitted conspiracy to defraud, sent most of the cash to his father in Cameroon to pay him back after he had re-mortgaged his house to pay for Tagne’s education.

Tagne fled the country and went to France and the US for seven months while the police investigation was being carried out.

Tagne returned to the UK voluntarily and was arrested in July 2007.

Richard Reed, for Tagne, said his client’s marriage broke up when he told his wife what he had done.

Mr Reed added: “He hasn’t had the heart to tell his father what he has done.”

The Recorder of Leeds, Judge Peter Collier QC, jailed Tagne for 12 months.

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Deux Camerounais et un Nigérians lynchés pour…vol de sexe
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Deux Camerounais et un Nigérian ont été lynchés à mort dans l’Etat nigérian de Taraba (frontalier du Cameroun) par une foule persuadée qu’ils avaient volé son sexe à un homme, rapporte dimanche le très sérieux quotidien The Guardian.Selon le journal, qui cite un témoin, les trois hommes étaient en train de faire le plein dans une station-service avant de partir vers le Cameroun lorsqu’un homme a ameuté la foule en disant qu’ils lui avaient dérobé ses parties génitales.Pris à partie par la foule, les trois hommes ont tenté alors de trouver refuge dans un commissariat où ils seront mis en pièces par leurs poursuivants malgré l’interposition de policiers.L’incident a été confirmé au journal par le commissaire de police local, Aliyu Musa, dont cinq hommes ont été sérieusement blessés et le commissariat totalement détruit.



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La France reste timorée sur les «biens mal acquis»
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France remains timorée on the “badly acquired goods”
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In a new revealed report/ratio, Wednesday June 24, the interdependent CCFD-Ground details the system of the “goods badly acquired” by about thirty chiefs D? State. More than 95% of diverted assets N? were not restored with the populations. The seizure symbolic system, by a collective, D? a badly acquired good, in L? occurrence a Parisian private mansion. (AFP/FRANCK FIFE) Prestigious private mansions in Paris, castles in France, luxury cars, jets private? In did March 2007, a report/ratio of the catholic Committee against the hunger and for the development (interdependent CCFD-Ground) detail part of the goods of the chiefs D? State among poorest of planet. L? did investigation carry the title “Goods badly acquired? too often profit”, to indicate the billion D? euros diverted by these leaders, in particular African. First complaints against corrupted presidents S? supported later on on the conclusions of the document.

Two years after, in 2009, L? Does ONG return to the load through a second study entitled “badly acquired Goods, which benefits the crime? ”, which will be returned public Wednesday June 24. Is its first report that corruption N? save any continent. D? after the joint authors of L? inquires, Antoine Dulin and Jean Merckaert, “between 105 and 180 billion dollars (75 and 130 billion D? euros) were perceived by about thirty dictators” African, American, Asian and European.
Do leaders died in the top of the basket

At the head of this prize list appear of the leaders aujourd? today deceased: Saddam Hussein (between 7,2 and 28,8 billion D? diverted euros), the shah D? Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (25,2 billion D? euros), L? Indonésien Mohammed Suharto (12,6 billion D? euros), L? Man from the Ivory Coast Felix Houphouët-Boigny (5 to 7 billion D? euros)?

D? other chiefs D? State quoted in the document are still in exercise. The president Eduardo Back Santos who controls L? Angola D? is an iron hand since 1979 suspected D? to have diverted approximately 3 billion D? euros of the cases of L? State, in particular by the means of commissions on the oil sales.
In would Equatorial Guinea, “80% of the national income be monopolized by L? oligarchy” directed by Teodoro Obiang Nguema. In would Asia, Kazakh president Noursoultan Narzabaïev have touched more than 700 million D? euros of bribes, always via the oil incomes.

In “this prize list of shame”, between the name of Paul Biya who directs Cameroun without stopping since 1982. The work of journalists, trade unions and associative persons in charge local, made it possible to put at the day a system diversions generalized the profit of the president and his family. Would Biya have castles in France and Germany, as well as many companies in wood or L? mining. Is the presidential couple also marked D? “to have very directly put in bankruptcy, through plundering, the Cameronian Company of bank”.
Do banks and tax havens play a central part

With the passage, the report/ratio of the CCFD reconsiders the part played by Elf, repurchased since by Total, in the great corruption generated by L? black gold. “L? would French company have thus lent, in 1992, more than 80 million D? euros at the national company of hydrocarbons, the profit of Paul Biya, via a bank of Virgin Islands. N the other hand, Elf S? ensured an oil provisioning by advance and garnered a commission of 20 million D? euros. ”

With do the multinationals, the banks and tax havens installed for the majority in the rich countries play a central part in L? organization of the system of the “badly acquired goods”. C? is indeed on Western accounts which are sheltered the product of the speculationes of State revenues. Not only in Switzerland, in Luxembourg, or the Cayman Islands but also in France.

“Does No action seem to be undertaken with L? opposition to the French banks of which it is however shown that the branches in London and in Switzerland held accounts of the general Abacha Nigerian”, points out L? study of the CCFD. Is the responsibility for the Westerners illustrated by L? thorn-bush file of the restitutions of the stolen funds. In the name of the reason D? Are state, rare the seizures D? private mansions or of accounts of dictators of “friendly” countries.

“Some will want to remain about it with the judgment of the leaders kleptocrats, point out the authors of the report/ratio. They will pass beside the subject. What runs up, C? is qu? in spite of the repeated promises of war to corruption (note: in the rich countries), only 1% to 4% of the diverted assets were restored with the populations flights. ”
23 million D? euros blocked at the Bank of France

On the matter, France has the appearance of a bad pupil. Then qu? it posts readily its important legislative device against bleaching and the corruption, it remains good last with L? hour to seize or restore badly acquired goods qu? it shelters. Would fortune of Saddam Hussein for example, only her yacht have been returned with L? Iraq.
In spite of the resolution 1483 of the Security Council of L? UNO claiming the return of the richnesses of the deposed capacity, 23 million D? euros would remain always blocked at the Bank of France.

For has two years, the ministry for justice tried also D? to prevent a lawsuit on the badly acquired goods which blame the Congolese Denis Sassou Nguesso, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, and late Omar Bongo.

In does November 2007, the parquet floor have D? access classified L? business without continuation. After a new complaint in December 2008 of L? ONG international Transparency France and D? a Gabonese taxpayer, considered to be admissible by the judge, the prosecutor deposited a new recourse of inadmissibility. The file is currently in call. “If the French procedures go in their term, Jean Merckaert concludes, it will be a signal extremely strong envoy with the leaders of the countries concerned, and not only with them. ”

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Biens mal acquis: la piste camerounaise
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Badly acquired goods: the Cameronian track
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After Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville and Equatorial Guinea, L? business of? badly acquired goods? could also touch Cameroun of Paul Biya. Revelations.

Will Cameroun be the next African country shaken by L? business of? badly acquired goods?? To date, the legal procedure which aims at determining the inheritance? French? certain chiefs D? State is limited to Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville and Equatorial Guinea. But the catholic Committee against the hunger and for development (CCFD), an ONG which played a release part in the first investigation, S? interest from now on in Cameroun of Paul Biya, the capacity since 1982.

In does his report/ratio made public this Wednesday June 24, the committee evoke in particular? splendid Isis Villa? , in Roquebrune-Cape-Martin (the Alpes-Maritimes), pertaining seems it in Franck Biya, the son of the president. Questioned by L? Express train, L? does entourage of this last answer qu? it N? does y have there? nothing D? abnormal for a man who directs an important forest company?. More surprising: the CCFD S? also questions on L? helps of Cameroun with L? Osti, a esoteric organization whose name had appeared, in 1999, in the investigations on the sect of L? Order of the solar temple.

L? Osti (sovereign Order of the initiatory temple) was founded in 1988 per Raymond Bernard. Was this man deceased in 2006 known for his maconnic rosicrucians activities, templières and, but also for his financial bonds with L? French-speaking Black Africa. Being presented in the form of a one? to advise? of did Paul Biya, it affirm, in 1998, that this one was a president D? honor of Circes (L? one of the branches of L? Was Osti) in its country and thus shown very? generous? in its connection.

In 1990, it would L have even helped? organization to acquire its Parisian seat, street Beaunier (XIVe). The amount of the loan? 40 million frank, refundable in 99 years and without interests! Part of this sum had then been poured by the national Company of hydrocarbons, a Cameronian publicly-owned establishment, on the account of Raymond Bernard to the Crédit Lyonnais.

Questioned on this point, the presidency denies any relation with the templiers and ensures N? to have? ever authorized such a loan?. Only problem: L? Osti itself, requested by L? Express train, does not dispute to have received 40 million frank Paul Biya. L? current person in charge for L? do association, Yves Jayet, even indicate to us, by email, that this loan? fact L? object of important refundings entered each year since 1999?!? The large Master does not specify who is the recipient of refundings.

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George Tanni is Dead
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The former Deputy Editor-in-Chief in charge of the English Language news in Radio Cameroon and CRTV, George Tanni Mbu is dead. He died last Monday at the National Social Insurance Fund hospital in Yaounde following a brief illness. George Tanni was the presenter of the English Language news magazine programme “Cameroon Report” which later became “Cameroon Calling”. Born at Pinyin-Bamenda in the North West Region, by Chief Emmanuel Tanni and Many’u Tryphaena Tanni, George Tanni after secondary education, entered the Yaounde University International Higher School of Journalism (ESIJY) from 1976 to 1979 where he obtained a B.A. Degree in journalism. He also did graduate work at the school of Journalism of the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario-Canada. Armed with a wide range of working experience, he was an announcer for Radio Cameroon in 1980 and 1981, broadcast journalist for Radio Cameroon from 1979 to 2000.

He was Radio Cameroon’s roving reporter on the 1976 first-ever-head-count in Cameroon and covered the 1985 Cameroon Economic Prospection Mission to five American States. That earned him verbal appreciation from the Head of State.

He held several posts of responsibility in the Cameroon Radio and Television Corporation (CRTV). He was a senior editor (Grand Reporter) by grade before retiring. His graduate work from the school of journalism was entitled “Mass Media in Rural Cameroon” (Case study of Pinyin) a dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of requirement for a B.A. Degree in Journalism. He was equally the Knight of the French Order of Merit.

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Geovic reports dispute with partner
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Denver-based Geovic Mining’s partner on the Nkamouna cobalt/nickel/manganese project, in Cameroon, is disputing the way that foreign currency exchange rates were applied to expenses incurred by the mine’s holding company.Geovic owns 60,5% of Geovic Cameroon (GeoCam) and the National Investment Corporation of Cameroon, or Societe Nationale D’Investissement du Cameroon (SNI), controls the balance.SNI has brought legal proceedings against GeoCam and the company’s independent auditor, Deloitte & Touche Afrique Centrale Sarl, in which it seeks to have Deloitte removed by the court as GeoCam’s auditor, as well as an award of attorney fees incurred.Deloitte was selected as GeoCam’s statutory auditor in 2008 by agreement of all GeoCam shareholders.The disagreement relates to the application of foreign currency exchange rates to about $23-million of GeoCam expenses incurred by Geovic during the eleven years between 1995 and 2006, Geovic said on Wednesday.
“It is Geovic’s position that the proper application is that any gain or loss resulting from the exchange rates in effect at the end of each year during which the advances were made should be for the benefit or detriment of Geovic, the shareholder that made the advance, rather than all GeoCam shareholders, as apparently proposed by SNI,” the company said in a statement.

Deloitte agreed with Geovic’s position when it completed its GeoCam audit for the year ended December 31, 2008, but SNI disagrees.

SNI has also requested the court to invalidate the existing 2008 audit and appoint an independent expert to review the 2008 financial statements, and is seeking to prevent the scheduled June 26, annual meeting of GeoCam shareholders at which the 2008 financial statements would be approved, pending resolution of these disputes.

Geovic plans to support Deloitte’s retention as GeoCam’s statutory auditor and has joined the proceedings as a party for that purpose.

The company is also “actively” seeking an amicable solution outside of the legal proceedings, it said.

In the meantime, the company assured that “neither day-to-day business operations, the present ownership interests of Geovic and SNI in GeoCam, nor the development of the Nkamouna project are anticipated to be affected by the outcome of these proceedings”.

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Baisse de 25% des prix de denrées alimentaires
Related to country: Cameroon

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