human rights

WEST AFRICA - GOMA - Ambassador Luca Attanasio dead in Congo with a Carabiniere

WEST AFRICA- GOMA - DR Congo - On the border with Rwanda in a shootout died in an ambush Italian Ambassador Luca Attanasio. A carabiniere escort Vittorio Iacovacci also died with him; they were travelling with a UN convoy when they were attacked and killed. The border area with Rwanda is still a very dangerous zone.

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European Union applauds Cameroon government's efforts to calm the Anglophone crisis in the country

The European Union applauds the Cameroon government's efforts to calm the Anglophone crisis in the country

These acts are the introduction of the bill establishing the General Code of Decentralised Territorial Collectivities, the release of 333 detainees in the context of the crisis in the North West and South West, and about 200 activists of the Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon.

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Fight against terrorism BOKO HARAM Elements of the Airborne Troop Battalion routs the attackers in Lebialem

Airborne Troop Battalion routs Boko Haram in Lebialem

Fight against terrorism: Elements of the Airborne Troop Battalion rout attackers at Lebialem
The valiant soldiers of the Cameroonian army, in seven against 15 terrorists, managed to neutralise a group of fifteen terrorists, armed and dressed in camouflage suits, who had set themselves the goal of destroying the supplies and gifts offered by the presidential couple to the population.

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Cameroon - Elections 7 October and the Anglophone Crisis

The Catholic Church has proposed in an episcopal letter to the "people of God who are in Cameroon, to all Cameroonians", to vote in the next elections, "candidates capable of dealing with the socio-political crisis" that Cameroon is going through. In the same letter from which VOA Africa obtained ...

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CAMEROON - Jesuit Fathers develop training projects

Douala - The Jesuit Fathers promote both micro-entrepreneurship projects and also save banana trees from extinction. This is the project launched in Douala capital jesuit reproduction bananaeconomic by the Cameroon Jesuits. An initiative that has a double value, educational and naturalistic, in a context not as simple as that of the African country.

Fides Agency is carrying out these interesting projects in Cameroon where more than three million boys and girls have not reached the minimum level of schooling. 70% of girls are illiterate.

This phenomenon is particularly visible in the northern regions, where more than one million girls between the ages of 10 and 19 cannot read or write (31.9% of girls in the region).

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President Paul Biya meets Pope Francis Bergoglio - Visit to the Vatican

Pope Francis on Thursday l 23 March 2017 received Cameroonian President Paul Biya and the two men praised "the mutual respect between the various religious groups" in Cameroon. "Taking note of the peaceful coexistence and mutual respect between the various religious groups," the two men ...

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Padua: Wigwam sponsors the 5th edition of the Cameroon Festival of Italy

Feast and Interchange, cultural and economic. The edition is held in Padua from 09 to 12 August 2018

wigwam-festival-cameroon-padova-2018 italy-cameroon cooperationCameroonians resident in Italy have formed an important and strong community for some years now, consisting of doctors, nurses, engineers, pharmacists, workers, students, athletes and many others.

Although they have different horizons, they have remained ambitious and all aspire, on the one hand, to a successful integration in the host country and, on the other, to consolidate ties with their homeland. Motivated by their love for Cameroon, their country of origin, they decided as a diaspora to create the association "Challenge Camerounais Italie".

Platform bringing together all Cameroonian citizens and sympathisers, resident in Italyto celebrate their culture and enhance the integration of both Cameroonian and Italian cultures; the Challenge Camerounais Italie "CCI" has as its main aim to foster peaceful cohesion between the two peoples, and serve as a prerequisite for the realisation of a fruitful and lasting exchange between Italy and Cameroon.

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