Society
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Anglophone crisis: CNA, others inform ongoing research, total death profiling
By Nchendzengang Tatah The diverse and intense information pool offered by the Cameroon News Agency and other sources is easing…
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Three face charges for trafficking in pangolin scales
Three wildlife traffickers are facing charges before the High Court in Yokadouma for the illegal trade in pangolin scales. They were arrested on May 5th with more than 700 kilograms of pangolin scales during a major crackdown against wildlife crime. The arrest was carried out by the Boumba & Ngoko Divisional Delegation of Forestry and Wildlife, in collaboration with the Gendarmerie and with technical assistance from LAGA. Wildlife authorities arrested the three alleged traffickers who are part of a sprawling wildlife crime network operating across Cameroon and extending into Gabon, Congo Brazzaville, the Central African Republic, and Equatorial Guinea. Preliminary reports pointed out that the suspects specialized in the illegal trade of pangolin scales, which they collected and stockpiled over time while concealing their activities under the guise of trading non timber forest products. Pangolins are among the most trafficked mammals in the world and as such face threat in their survival. Cameroon is home to three of pangolin species – the white-bellied, the black-bellied and giant pangolins which are all classified as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened species. In a note that was made public immediately after the arrests in May, the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife denounced the massacre of pangolins and reaffirmed its determination to fight the illegal trade in the country. The matter is presently under investigation by an examining magistrate in Yokadouma. The suspects risk up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to 50 million CFA francs if found guilty under 2024 wildlife law.
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NWR: MINAT suspends sales of Motorbikes for 48h
The Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji, has ordered a 48-hour suspension of motorbike sales in Cameroon’s North West…
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On World Teachers’ Day, Cameroon’s Teacher Recruitment Faces Payroll Gap
As the world marks Teachers’ Day on Monday, Cameroon has reached its target of recruiting 18,000 teachers, but thousands of…
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NCC Suspends Vision 4, Journalists
Cameroon’s National Communication Council has suspended private broadcaster Vision 4 from broadcasting for one month, escalating a dispute with the…
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Death of Form 2 student: Parents demand from La Salle College
The atmosphere at Collège de La Salle in Douala was tense on Monday morning, September 21, as parents of students…
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Ten Years On, Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis Continues to Claim Lives
By Cameroon News Agency Ten years after lawyers, teachers and students took to the streets in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions to…
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Cameroon University Teachers Declare Indefinite Strike Over Unpaid Allowances
Cameroon’s National Union of Teachers of Higher Education, Executive Bureau (BEN-SYNES) has declared an indefinite strike across all public universities,…
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Laison Sylvie: Ten Years of Taking Hope to Cameroon’s Hardest-to-Reach Communities
For Laison Sylvie, humanitarian work was not the destination she originally planned. Armed with an MBA, she could have pursued…
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Scars of memory:Meeting Lake Nyos disaster survivors, 40 years after
By Nchendzengang Tatah This is August 21, 1986, after a busy market day in the Nyos Valley of Menchum Division,…
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