Inside Cameroon

Issa Hayatou has embarked on a project aimed at keeping the presidency of the African Football Confederation for life. Like his FIFA boss Sepp Blatter, the Cameroonian football dictator does not intend to step down from the leadership of CAF.

Some Kumba city council workers are reported to have stolen spare parts of heavy machines that belong to the council.

Media reports in Southern Cameroons say there is a new face and new spirit in the Bar Council since the emergence of the great Ntumfor Halle Nico. A new terminology has also been coined to describe the situation. It is “The Nicoism Spirit”.

17 years after the Nsam fire disaster, the ruling CPDM crime syndicate has honoured Nsam victims who died stealing petrol. A monument has been erected in honour of the disaster.

A legal mind deep within the Fako constituency for the first time ever since the arrest of Chief Inoni,has openly lamented what he described as the “phoney silence of Fako political elite”.

The DO of Balikumbat used his killer punches in an open dwell with the Mayor in front of an off license bar- all because of a girl friend.

President Biya’s late mother-in-law is now been described as “one corpse, three state funerals”.

Citizens of La Republique du Cameroun are divided over the fate of Volker Finke after two poor outings in Brazil and Equatorial Guinea.

Pirates or Boko Haram—But some people attacked Bakassi, killed a Cameroonian policeman and abducted the police commissioner.

Some pro Barrister Sama Francis comedians now claim that the new Bar Council president is marginalising Anglophones.

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18.Feb.2015

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For his 91st birthday party, the patriarch of the African Union Robert Mugabe has planned to offer the flesh of an elephant, buffalo and a lion to his 20,000 guests scheduled for February 21. For Tendai Musasa,a local farmer who has opted to provide some of the animals including two elephants, two buffaloes and a lion, that gesture "is a way to support President Mugabe while providing a festive atmosphere."

Cat calls from wild life groups in Zimbabwe have greeted the news with the President of the Working Group for the Conservation of Zimbabwe lamenting the killing of many elephants and buffaloes during such celebrations saying “It's totally unethical and it should not be allowed”. During his 90^th birthday celebrations, 90 balloons were launched and 90 cows offered for a meal accompanied by a gigantic cake that weighed 90 pounds. Robert Mugabe who has governed Zimbabwe since 1980 is the current Chairman of the African Union.

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18.Feb.2015

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Twin sisters in the Republic of South Africa decided to marry the same man. The South African Drum Magazine that made the story public quoted the twins as saying, “We have always done everything together. We share everything. So when we decided to get married, we told everyone who would like to marry the same man”

In South Africa, polygamy is practise at the highest level of government with President Jacob Zuma at the forefront with his insatiable quest for women. Jacob Zuma is second to the King of Swaziland, Mswati III who will be going soon for a sixth wife.

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10.Feb.2015

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Twenty-eight inmates escaped from a Brazilian jail after three women in fantasy police costumes "seduced" prison wardens. Police found three wardens naked and handcuffed inside the Nova Mutum public jail, near Cuiaba, central Brazil, the morning after the mass break-out. The women reportedly drugged the prison guards by giving them spiked whisky after convincing them to take part in an orgy, according to investigators.

Inmates then left the prison through the main doors, even taking with them guns and munitions they had taken from prison caches. Police later found a bag of lingerie and dominatrix police uniforms believed to have been worn by the temptresses. Last night photos of one the naked wardens, believed to have been leaked by amused police officers who found him, had been shared thousands of times on social network sites.

The three women - one of them reportedly the girlfriend of one of the prisoners who escaped - arrived at the prison at three o'clock on Thursday morning and asked to be let inside to "chat and drink", police said. The prison guards reportedly obliged and were soon persuaded to leave their posts, accompanying the girls to staff sleeping quarters. After drugging the wardens the women handcuffed them, took their keys and unlocked all the prison's cells, according to chief Angelina de Andrades Ferreira.

She told a news conference: "The plan was to seduce them. They served them cheap whisky with some substance to knock them out, then unlocked the central gate which accesses the internal cells. "Whoever wanted to escape left by the front door. "From the moment they drank the whisky the agents don't remember a thing. One was found dizzy, trying to wake up. Another slept for the whole afternoon and couldn't even be questioned."

The inmates took three 12 caliber rifles shotguns, two 38 caliber revolvers and munition, she said. Ms Ferreira said the escape was planned by the boyfriend of one of the women, Bruno Amorim, 18, was was serving time for attempted murder, robbery and firearms possession. She said: "Everything indicated that he planned and executed everything, with the help of his girlfriend." She said the three prison officers had been arrested and will be charged with "facilitating a jailbreak" and "culpable embezzlement" because of the theft of firearms.

On Friday eight of the 28 prisoners had been recaptured as police launched a massive operation to track down the fugitives. One inmate was found wandering around the centre of Nova Mutum in a drunken state, holding one of the stolen rifles. Another was caught after stealing a pick-up truck from a farm and crashing it, police said.

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08.Feb.2015

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Barrister Sama Francis and his sympathisers have recently launched scathing attacks on the great Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle accusing the Ntumfor of betraying the Anglophone law family during the Bar Council elections politicking.

A hue and cry has erupted over funeral arrangements of the late Mayor and parliamentarian Francoise Foning. The family has moved the solemn ceremony from February 28 to March 18. Southern Cameroons report gathered that some interested parties are questioning why she should be buried in Bafou and not in Douala or Babadjou as per her double marriage title.

The Ministry of Justice is set to open a major investigation at the High court in Wum town capital of Menchum Division. And finally rumour is circulating that Prof. Yanou Mike from the University of Buea may have been killed by Special Forces from La Republique.

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07.Feb.2015

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Former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda has been hospitalized since Tuesday in Lusaka. The father of Zambia’s independence struggle who is now 90 years old was admitted to the Lusaka Trust hospital.

His daughter Cheswa Silwizye confirmed the news but refused to clarify why he was admitted. Popularly known as KK, the former president led Zambia for 27 years since its independence in 1964 until he gave power after the first multiparty elections in 1991.

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06.Feb.2015

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