Day: August 14, 2023

Minister of Water and Energy, Habtamu Itefa, has called on other countries to emulate Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative as an essential example for sustainable water protection and conservation.

Ethiopia has successfully accomplished first round of the Green Legacy Initiative carried out over the past four years by planting 25 billion tree seedlings.

The nation has also planned to plant another 25 billion seedlings in the second phase which is launched this rainy season.

According to the Minister, Green Legacy Initiative that has been implemented over the last four years is very beneficial for sustainable water resource protection.

Apart from environmental benefits, the saplings planted have a big role to enhancing surface and underground water and increasing river flows as well as to conserving bio diversity of the country, he said.

Habtamu stated that other nations should adopt and implement similar programs as the initiative has proven greatly beneficial for climate resilience and water conservation.

The Minister said his ministry is collaborating with research institutes to make the water conservation efforts more effective through studies.

Habtamu pointed out that Ethiopia has long carried out community watershed and conservation activities, further enhanced by the Green Legacy Initiative.

He reiterated his call for other countries to emulate the program as a model for sustainable development.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

The fifth session of the committee to follow up on the implementation of the recommendations of the Major National Dialogue that took place in Yaounde in 2018, has concluded discussions in Buea, South West region.

The fifth session focused on how to revamp the economy of the two English-speaking regions after nearly seven years of conflict. The recovery is contained in a 12-point recommendation dished out to the stakeholders.

They resolved to consolidate gains already attained in the agro-industrial sector, engage with communities, and create developmental projects to boost their economies, call for the population to work actively with security forces, and avoid self-destruction.

PM Dion Ngute also used the occasion to call on separatists to drop their weapons and integrate DDR centers.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

We just received a video showing the nud£ of a woman, allegedly posted on the status of a Catholic Church Father.

Sources, backed by screenshots said he posted the nud£ on his WhatsApp status and deleted it 45 minutes after discovering the scandal. But friends who have GB WhatsApp downloaded it and can still see the status.

According to preliminary findings, the lady in question is another man’s wife, we learned.

The name of the Father and diocese have been concealed!

The 30 seconds video has gone viral and left many wondering where the Man of God got the video from. Has he been sleeping with another man’s wife?

Source: Cameroon News Agency

The president of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement, CRM political party, Maurice Kamto has criticized some government measures put in place to fight against high cost of living in the country stating that they do not depict the needs of the population.

This was contained in a release issued

by the official on August 13, 2023.

The reaction was made following a joint press conference held by 5 government officials to make public government measures for the fight against high cost of living in the country caused by the Russia-Ukraine crisis on August 10, 2023.

The CRM president went on to analyze the Minister of Communication, Rene Emmanuel Sadi’s statement which implied that the government is putting efforts into granting subsidies for oil revenues and petroleum products through tax exemptions and customs reductions. He noted that these measures highly benefit the importers more than the population.

“These measures are taken for the exclusive benefit of importers without any impact on citizens insofar as current market prices are not affected by them.

Freezing the prices of basic necessities, after having brought them back to official levels approved by the State, is a more effective instrument in such a situation, which directly impacts the shopping basket,” he suggested.

He also highlighted the structural measures that the government plans to implement to contain or attenuate possible shocks. He termed them “vague, fleeting and baseless without any concrete proposal,”.

Maurice Kamto did not fail to point out the fact that the high cost of living is a palpable reality that breaks many Cameroonians daily.

He says the measures outlined highlights the resignation of the government in its mission to support it’s citizens since in the end, the prices of these products will remain out of their reach while only a “privileged few” will benefit from these measures.

Source: Cameroon News Agency