Some changes have been made barely three days to the burial ceremony of the late Mayor Francoise Foning.Her remains will now exit Yaounde General Hospital mortuary for Douala where the deceased lived much of her 67 years on earth on Thursday the 18^th of March 2015. As customs and tradition demands, her dresses have been exposed informing her ancestors that our late mayor has now joined them. We hereby publish the final and authentic funeral program of one of the most popular Cameroon female politician who ever lived.

 Honourable FONING Francoise

March 18, 2015

• Removal of corps from the Yaounde General Hospital mortuary
• Holy Mass at the Cathedral of Notre Dame des Victoires in Yaoundé

2:00 p.m.

• Departure for Douala
• Wake keep at residence in Bépanda in Douala
• Vigil Mass

March 19, 2015

• Laid in state at the Douala 5^th District Council Hall
• Laid in state at the Omnisport Stadium Bépanda
• People Vigil with ecumenical service and various events

March 20, 2015

• Departure for Bafou
• Arrival - Installation - Traditional Ceremony
• Vigil until dawn

March 21, 2015

• Solemn ceremony on the esplanade of the palace of His Majesty Johnny Baleng of Bafou
• Mass - Testimonials
• Burial in the strictest of privacy

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06.Feb.2015

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Pride comes before a fall? Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, 90, falls down podium steps after being greeted by his adoring supporters.Zimbabwe's president tripped as he walked down steps at the airport.Mugabe, new chairman of the African Union, was returning from Ethiopia. The leader, in power since 1987, had been greeted by adoring supporters. Mugabe whisked away in waiting limousine after the accident. Photographers who captured the fall asked to delete pictures, it is claimed.

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05.Feb.2015

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Fierce fighting is reportedly going on between the Cameroon army and the Nigerian Islamist sect  Boko Haram this morning in Fotokol. Our Cameroon military informant has hinted that Boko Haram fighters are fleeing the encirclement of Chadian troops at Gambaru and its surrounding environment.

The Chadian army launched a major operation since Tuesday on Gambaru and announced that they have given themselves a month to wipe out Boko Haram completely from its entire strongholds deep inside Nigeria.

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04.Feb.2015

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One person has been killed and three others taken hostage as pirates hijack a crude oil tanker off the Nigerian coast. The Greek coastguard said on Wednesday that the Malta-flagged Kalamos’s Greek deputy commander was killed by the pirates. Dozens of heavily armed pirates boarded the 15-year-old tanker that was at anchor in Nigeria’s Gulf of Guinea on Tuesday.

The tanker was waiting for a fresh oil cargo from the Qua Iboe terminal in southeastern Nigeria. A coastguard spokeswoman told AFP that two of the three hostages were Greek nationals, adding that out of the 23 crewmembers 10 were from Greece.

Experts say the Gulf of Guinea has become the new epicenter for piracy in Africa.The International Maritime Bureau has said that between January and September 2014, 33 incidents of piracy and armed raids were recorded in the region.

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04.Feb.2015

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The DO in charge of Bamali is reported to be panicking as the people have begun mobilising to commence a legal battle against him.

There are reasons why Mbella Moki may not contest the Fako III CPDM Section presidency

Hon. Ndong has broken the silence he maintained refuting allegations that he killed a party member.

Hon.Evangelist Rose Abunaw has carried God’s message to the Awanchi- Betieku people in Upper Bayang sub constituency.

Barrister Sama Francis did not really get the support of the Common law lawyers as he claimed before the elections in Yaounde.

Former Prime Minister Simon Achidi Achu did organize what many have described as a ground breaking thanksgiving mass at PC Santa.

A suspicious kind of burglary took place at the South West Development Authority as auditors came calling.

The Southern Cameroons National Council now says Justice Ayah Paul was never elected president of the movement. And finally, 20 police recruits have been arrested and charged for depositing fake university degrees in the recruitment process.

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03.Feb.2015

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Liberia’s Ministry of Education says it has postponed the reopening of schools in the country, which have been shut down to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Schools, which were initially set to reopen on Monday, will reopen in two weeks’ time, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The schools have already been shut down for six months.

Parents and students needed more time to prepare for the start of the school year, the ministry added. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education said it was working to ensure that Ebola-related safety measures, as well as health and training requirements, were in place before classes resumed. Also, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf warned that high costs, among other factors, hampered the resumption of classes in the country. “The cost of opening schools, as proposed by public, private schools and higher education institutions, is simply prohibitive,” she said.

According to the World Health Organization, the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the three hardest-hit West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has risen to nearly 9,000. Schools in all the three countries were closed last year over the deadly epidemic. However, Guinea allowed children to return to school on January 19, while Sierra Leone said it will restart classes in March. Ebola is a form of hemorrhagic fever, whose symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding. The virus spreads through direct contact with infected blood, feces, or sweat. It can be also spread through sexual contact or the unprotected handling of contaminated corpses.

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01.Feb.2015

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