Inside Cameroon

It has emerged that some Ghanaian women who were recruited by a self styled travel and tour agent to Kuwait have been sold into sex slavery. The man who recruited the women is currently on the run and the police have mounted a man hunt to get him to face the law. The women who were said to be numbering around 20 have been stranded in the Gulf Nation and they say they live in fear every single day. One of the women who managed to hide her mobile phone in her private part called a local radio station- Adom Fm in the capital, Accra and said they fear they might be killed, alleging that some who got pregnant have been killed already. “The unfortunate part is that those of us who get pregnant are killed for no reason. We are so scared and don’t know what might happen to the rest of us so we want government to come to our aid,” she cried.

She said they were recruited by an agent who introduced them to some people in Kuwait who promised them a high paying job on arrival in the country. “We were promised by some people in Kuwait who said they will get us a good job and because we were so anxious to get something doing, we agreed,’’ she said. She further added that the promise was a scam and it was only when they got to Kuwait that they became aware that it was prostitution. “We later realized that all the promises were false after we discovered that we have actually been sold for Ghc7, 000 ($2, 000) and have been turned into sex slaves’’, she added. The Ghanaian Foreign Affairs Ministry has not commented on the issue but human rights activists are pressing for immediate action. The exodus of Ghanaians to the Gulf Nations has increased significantly this year due to the nature of the Ghanaian economy which is unable to create jobs for its citizens. Last month, a Ghanaian construction worker was beheaded by Islamic State militants in the southern Libyan city of Sirte.

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31.Mar.2015

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In a press release issued from Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon, NGOs and other African institutions have strongly condemn the financial embezzlement and corruption that has rocked the distribution of food and non-food items to refugees in the Tindouf refugee camps.

Hoping to be heard, the Non Governmental Organizations appealed to the international community, specifically the European Union to end "diversions of donations, medicines and capital goods which are sold by government officials in countries like Algeria, Mauritania and Mali. The press statement also demanded a full audit of the Algerian Red Crescent.

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29.Mar.2015

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The European Union has decided to set up two aid projects to help the Cameroon government, to support the humanitarian load caused by the influx of refugees on its soil. The EU "Marshall Plan" reportedly to be in two parts has a budget estimated at 4 million euros (2.6 billion CFA francs) which aims to strengthen the operational capacity of civil protection bodies including firefighters department and border policing. The second is topromote the socio-economic integration of disadvantaged youth in the region of the Far North region. The EU has announced a new program for rural development for much of the the Far North region.

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25.Mar.2015

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The plane carrying Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o, Cameroon’s Minister at the Presidency of the Republic in charge of Defence nearly crashed on Tuesday in Ngaoundere,Cameroon Concord has learnt.  The minister on  Tuesday, March 24,  was in a plane on a tour of the North that missed landing operation twice due to heavy rain fall. Our informant in Ngaoundere revealed that the plane continued its way to Garoua. Edgar Alain Mbe Ngo’o was heading to Ngaoundere for the installation ceremony of appointed officials in his ministry on 28 February by President Biya.

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25.Mar.2015

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Fifteen passengers travelling on a bus were abducted by armed men on the night of Thursday the 19^th of March some 11 km from Garoua-Boulaï heading towards Bertoua the chief city in the East of Cameroon.

The passengers who were predominantly Cameroonian citizens were using a service operated by Lux Travel Bus Agency in the Garoua-Boulaï locality found in the Lom-et-Djerem Division in the East region.

Cameroon government officials have said the rebels in the Central African Republic were responsible for the kidnappings. The Cameroonian army had been deployed in this part of the country, which is often confronted with sporadic attacks from the Central African armed gangs such as Seleka and Anti-Balaka.

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20.Mar.2015

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After the painful disappearance of the mother of President Laurent Gagbo of the Ivory Coast late last year,the mother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has also passed away at the age of 90. Sekineh Payvandi, who departed this life after months of illness, had been in hospital for several days before her demise.

Following Payvandi's passing, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz called on Hossein Fereydoun, the brother of and special aide to President Rouhani, at the residence of the Iranian negotiating team in the Swiss city of Lausanne to extend their condolences on the demise of the president's mother. The two US officials are currently in Lausanne along with Iranian negotiators for talks on Tehran's nuclear program. Fereydoun has left the negotiations in Lausanne for Iran.

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20.Mar.2015

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