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Nachtigal hydropower project in Cameroon passes a significant milestone

Construction Review | The construction of Cameroon’s 420MW Nachtigal hydropower project passes a major milestone with the filling of the reservoir. Gaston Eloundou Essomba, the country’s Minister of Water and Energy, closed the dam’s valves, officially marking its impoundment. The primary civil works are being carried out by Belgium’s BESIX, …

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Cameroon Military: Mass Grave Found With Bodies of 2021 Kidnap Victims

VOA | YAOUNDE, CAMEROON — Military officials in Cameroon say they have found a mass grave near the border with Nigeria containing the bodies of nine civilians, including five government officials, who were abducted by rebels in June 2021. Government troops were led to the mass grave by a separatist …

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Cameroonian insurgents made several failed attempts to penetrate Nigeria with firearms – Immigration

Daily Post Nigeria | The Comptroller of Immigration Service in Cross River State, Emmanuel Akinrinsola has disclosed that separatist groups in Southwest region of Cameroon, particularly the Ambazonia Boys, attempted several times to move weapons into or through Nigeria to Cameroon. Speaking at the headquarters of the NIS in Calabar …

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India finds ‘violations’ at cough syrup maker linked to Cameroon deaths

Reuters | August 2, 2023 – India found violations related to manufacturing and laboratory practices at drugmaker Riemann Labs, whose cough syrup was linked to child deaths in Cameroon, Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday citing a government health official. Authorities stepped up scrutiny of drugmakers after some cough syrups …

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Cameroonian sculptor transforming wastes into arts | + video

africanews | In Yaoundé, Cameroon, a painter and sculptor Joseph Francis Sumegne presents his exhibition “La citadelle des anciens” (“The citadel of the elders”). Half-man, half-animal sculpture made from objects of all kinds. The result is an impressive display of creations from another world. “The artist uses what I’d call …

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Leading Cameroonian journalist held arbitrarily for seven years, health failing

Reporters sans frontières | As Amadou Vamoulké, the former director-general of Cameroon’s national radio and TV broadcaster CRTV, completes his seventh year in arbitrary detention today (29 July), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) voices concern about his failing health and calls on the Cameroonian authorities to allow him access to appropriate medical care, …

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