Brenda Yufeh 3 August 2011 During the graduation ceremony on wednesday, some 33 specialised doctors and three Masters students were also awarded certificates by the Minister of Higher Education. Some 96 new medical doctors from the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Yaounde I, on wednesday August 3, took the Hippocratic [...]
Grain loadings for export from the French port of Rouen, Europe’s biggest cereal-shipping hub, fell 45 percent on a decline in the volume of wheat headed for Cameroon and Algeria. Outbound shipments were 66,410 metric tons from July 28 to Aug. 3, the Seine River port said in an e-mailed statement today, down from 120,975 [...]
In an evenly contested Group B at the FIFA U-20 World Cup Colombia 2011, Uruguay and Cameroon both need a win in their final group meeting in Bogota to guarantee a Round of 16 berth without depending on other results. The South Americans would also progress with a third consecutive draw, provided Portugal beat New [...]
Cameroon’s arabica coffee prices decreased 8.3 percent to 2,318 CFA francs a kilogram (2.2 pounds) in the week through July 31, the Cocoa and Coffee Board said. The average export price fell from 2,529 francs a kilogram, Richard Adzogo, webmaster of the board’s information department, said in a mobile-phone text message from the port city [...]
New Zealand have made history, sealing their first point at a FIFA Under-20 World Cup with a 1-1 draw with Cameroon in Cali, Colombia. Despite having 62 per cent of the possession, Cameroon failed to put away a considerably higher ammount of opportunities from set pieces. New Zealand, whose goal came from a piece of [...]
BowLeven Plc (BLVN), the oil company working with Vitol SA at Cameroon’s Etinde permit, slumped to an eight- month low in London trading after saying it will drill its next exploration well alone. “Vitol has elected not to participate in the drilling of the Sapele-3 exploration well,” Edinburgh-based BowLeven said today in a statement, without [...]
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – U.S. agribusiness firm Cargill Inc said on Wednesday it plans to train about 500 cocoa farmers in Cameroon, to help them boost production and quality in the world’s fifth cocoa grower. Wendy Garbutt, communications executive at Cargill, said the programme will mirror a similar project in Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa [...]
No goals as Uruguay, Portugal draw Published July 31, 2011 | FoxSports Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2011/07/31/no-goals-as-uruguay-portugal-draw/
Former African champions, Enyimba Football Club of Aba and Confederation Cup debutants Sunshine Stars of Nigeria shone like a million stars in their various campaigns for honours in the continent, surprisingly both on away soils. While Enyimba who are campaigning in the more prestigious and lucrative Champions League shocked their host, Coton Sport 3-2 in [...]
28 July 2011 The Audit Bench of the Supreme Court wants the control of public finances to be extended from the legal compliance of identified decisions and processes, to the verification of results attained in relation to the objectives set and the resources used. The institution has the responsibility to “control accounts of administrative institutions, [...]
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Gryphon Minerals (GRY) Broker Calls Credit Suisse – BUY Deutsche – BUY RBC – BUY RBS Morgans – BUY Argonaut – BUY Eagle Research – BUY Alpha Broking – BUY Chart: Share price over the year to 04/08/2011 versus ASX200 (XJO) Gryphon Minerals (GRY), a West African focussed Gold exploration company with projects [...]
Health: Global Fund against HIV-AIDS resumes activities in Mauritania
Global Fund against HIV-AIDS – The Global Fund for the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will resume activities in Mauritania after ‘a successful negotiation between the government and its partners,’ according to a statement from the Mauritanian ministry of Health. The resumption of funding will enable the country receive substantial resources estimated at about [...]
Mauritanian Football Federation elects new president
2011-08-01 Mauritanian football fans can look forward to new leadership in the sport as the country looks to rebuild its programme. By Mohamed Foily Samba Vall for Magharebia in Nouakchott – 01/08/11 [Mohamed Foily] For the first time in its history, Mauritania’s football federation held a competitive election for new leadership. The Mauritanian Football Federation [...]
Zimbabwe’s image problem: Facebook caning linked to human rights abuse
Zimbabwe clearly has an image problem. When we posted a note on Monday about the caning sentence for a Chiredzi boy who ‘slandered’ a local woman on Facebook, we sincerely thought two cane strokes was not a big deal. Really. For us the important thing was that someone had managed to get some kind of [...]
Kicked out of Zimbabwe, he’s now a top sportsman
I think with playing sport at an elite level comes a responsibility Pundits have touted him as a future Wallabies captain, which would be welcomed by Australian rugby fans who have delighted in his unfulfilled Springboks dream MELBOURNE — A child of evicted Zimbabwean farmers, David Pocock arrived in Australia with a few suitcases and [...]
Mugabe praises coalition government with rivals
Mugabe, who turns 88 on Tuesday, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, but has shared power with Tsvangirai’s rival Movement for Democratic Change since 2009 under a coalition after violent and disputed elections. Despite the agreement, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have continued to fight over government posts and policy, including Mugabe’s drive to [...]