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From Sidi Bouzid to Kinshasa: Francophone Africa in 2011

Italy/Tunisia: Migrants' Opinions of the Arab Spring

A documentary film, #Revolution, featuring the voices of some African immigrants living in Italy will be part of "Immaginafrica", a festival dedicated to African film-making organised by the University of Padua, Italy.

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France: New Visa Restrictions for Foreign University Graduates

France has taken a legal step which makes it more difficult for foreign students who have graduated from French universities to work on French territory and thus change their student visa permit into a working visa. Julie Owono reports on reactions to the new immigration rules.

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Cameroon Reacts to Presidential Election Results 22 October 2011
Cameroon: Biya Tipped to Win After Temporary Results Are Leaked 20 October 2011
Cameroon: Retrospective on the 2011 Presidential Election Candidates 19 October 2011
Cameroon: Diaspora Fail to Participate in Elections 13 October 2011
Cameroon: Questions and Doubts Over Upcoming Election 7 October 2011

Latest stories about Cameroon

6 February 2012

Africa: 2012 Cup of Nations Delivers Many Surprises

Written by Francois-Xavier Ada-Affana · Translated by Jane Ellis · Sport, Citizen Media

The first round of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations has been full of surprises as tournament favourites, such as Senegal and Morocco, have already been eliminated. Tweets from around Africa show how the whole continent has been captivated by the tournament.

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25 January 2012

Africa: 2012 Cup of Nations Kicks Off!

Written by Francois-Xavier Ada-Affana · Translated by Dan Horlor · Sport

The Africa Cup of Nations began in Bata, Equatorial Guinea this Saturday, January 21, kicking off three weeks of fierce competition. The Cup is the most important international football competition in Africa.

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12 January 2012

Cameroon: Essayist and Blogger Arrested and Charged with Robbery

Written by Julie Owono · Freedom of Speech, Citizen Media

Enoh Meyomesse, a Cameroonian writer and blogger, was arrested on November 22, 2011, at Nsimalen airport in Yaoundé, Cameroon on his way back from Singapore. Charged with robbery by the military court of Bertoua, in the north of the country, he is now detained at Nkondengui prison in Yaoundé.

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11 January 2012

Global Voices in Dutch Looks Back on 2011

Written by Percy Balemans · Translated by Percy Balemans · Citizen Media

While the year 2012 is already well on its way, the translators of Global Voices in Dutch look back on 2011. Which posts stood out and what makes Global Voices so special?

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4 January 2012

Cameroon: Violent Clashes Between Motorbike Taxi Drivers and Douala Citizens

Written by Julie Owono · Breaking News, War & Conflict

On December 31, 2011 in the popular district of Deido in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon, riots broke out between the inhabitants of the district and motorbike taxi drivers, also know as "benskiners". Here are testimonies and videos from local bloggers.

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27 December 2011

A Radical Solution For Global Poverty: Open Borders

Written by Lova · Translated by Andreea Ungureanu · Disaster, Food

Various experts say that extreme poverty isn't inevitable. The most radical solution to drastically reducing global poverty would be, for many economic experts, opening the borders between countries and allowing workers to migrate where labor is most needed.

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Updates about Cameroon

5 December 2011

French

The Genevan blog of Rémi Mogenet, Le Savoyard de la Tribune, explains with supporting examples that [fr]: “Mythological African traditional stories have made a remarkable entrance into francophone literature”. He quotes the Mandika epic tale of Soundjata, written and published in French by Guinean D. T. Niane, as well as, for Cameroon, Au Pays des initiés by Gabriel Mfomo and La Marseillaise de mon enfance by Jean-Marton Tchaptchet, without forgetting L' Anthologie nègre by Blaise Cendrars.

• Suzanne Lehn

17 November 2011

French

Commenting on an exhibition organized by Illy, an Italian coffee maker in London, bonaberi.com blog reports that [fr] : “The Cameroonian Alioum Moussa takes part in the exhibition as he was requested to design one of the new boxes of Illy [coffee]. ”

• Abdoulaye Bah

French

The Bilitol fulfude association is organizing the 5th international festival of Fulani arts and tradition [fr] from December 8th to December 11th 2011. The festival will take place at Yagoua, a region of the far east Cameroon. The program has scheduled the following events: “educational discussions, […] traditional games, traditional equestrian performances, cooking competitions, poetry, tales, Miss Fula pageant, a fashion show, an evening with the artists, story tellers, etc…”

• Abdoulaye Bah

14 November 2011

French

On cameroun.football.fr, Guy Roger Obama noted [Fr]: “The day after their qualification for the 30th Olympiad «London 2012», Michèle Madeleine Ngono Mani's (team captain) teammates were not pleased with the delayed payment of the remaining balance of the monetary prize they received for winning the gold medal at the 10th All African Games of Maputo in 2011.”

• Abdoulaye Bah

French

Eugene C. Shema reports on his conversation with Dr. Fassa Daniel Tolno regarding the connections between the population and development in Cameroon. On Africavox.com, he writes [fr] : “When the investments, the level of urbanization and the efforts on agriculture, human resources and industrialization do not keep up with the [increasing] size of the population, it goes without saying that the outcomes will be negative”.

• Abdoulaye Bah

10 November 2011

French

Writing about the 2011 African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF) held on November 10-11 in Tunis, EVINA in the africapress.over-blog.com provides possible reasons [fr] for the increase in the number of participants: 55 people attended the first edition that took place in Dakar (Senegal) in November 2008, and 250 participants gathered in Yaounde, Cameroon in 2010.

• Abdoulaye Bah

24 October 2011

French

Eva Joly, the green party candidate for the French 2012 presidential election, denounced on her blog the re-election of Paul Biya, Cameroon incumbent president. She points out that even the usually prudent US State Department expressed strong reserves with the electoral process. She is surprised that the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs already aknowledged Paul Biya's re-election despite noting many irregularities.

• Julie Owono

Comments on "Cameroon"

Cameroon: Essayist and Blogger Arrested and Charged with Robbery

Cameroon is a country where freedom of speech and expression is a reality and not a myth. President Paul Biya...
Enough proof was provided to warrant Enoh Meyomesse’s arrest. Because he is a politician, many people tend to analyse the...

Open borders sure does it and it will eventually lead to a playing level field for the world
if this is brought about it could lead to a perpetually mobile underclass being paid slave wages, resented by the...