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President Biya, 82, has decreed Friday, October the 16th, 2015 a day of national mourning. The Head of State stipulated that the nation should pay homage to the Cameroonians who died in Saudi Arabia on September 24, 2015 in the Hajj stampede. Sermons will be held throughout the national territory by Imams and Christians communities as well tomorrow Friday.

The Paul Biya decision has come at a time when the Muslim community is putting pressure on the regime to make public the death toll from the MECCA disaster. Saudi authorities released today the final list of all those who lost their lives in the Hajj 2015. The Saudi Hajj Commission placed the tally at 1,633. CPDM officials have been flirting with figures with the recent one putting Cameroonian death toll at 76 with 30 still missing.

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15.Oct.2015

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At least six people have lost their lives in a “terrorist attack” carried out by unknown militants in the Timbuktu region of northern Mali, the government says. The militants raided a convoy of civilian vehicles guarded by police forces in an area some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Gao, the biggest city in northern Mali, at around 7:30 a.m. local time (0730 GMT) on Tuesday, the government said in a statement. The Malian government did not specify who was traveling in the civilian vehicles and why they were being escorted by security forces.

The terrorist attack with rocket-launchers caused the death of six civilians and wounded two others including a soldier,” according to the statement. A security source said that the raid began when one of the vehicles hit a landmine planted by the militants. Two other vehicles arrived at the scene and were damaged before the militants “came out from their hiding place to fire on the civilians,” the source added.

Three trucks hired by the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) later arrived and were set alight by the militants, according to the source. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack; however, such raids are often carried out or attributed to Tuareg-led rebels, who are operating mostly in Mali’s restive north. The Tuareg rebels took control of northern Mali, which they call Azawad, in January 2012. The country has witnessed months of turmoil ever since.

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14.Oct.2015

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Unconfirmed reports from the nation's capital Yaounde say the Vice Prime Minister,Amadou Ali has been evacuated to an unknown destination in Europe for medical reasons. We gathered from Cameroun info.net that the Vice-Prime Minister in charge of Relations with the Assemblies, was evacuated on Wednesday, October 14, 2015. The 72 years old, Amadou Ali, hails from the village of Kolofata in the Far North region and is among the oldest clutches of the regime headed by a head of state who has been in power for 33 years.

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14.Oct.2015

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According to a quarterly report from the leadership of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC), Cameroon exported 6666 tonnes of cocoa during the first month of the new 2015-2016 campaign. BEAC has also anticipated a decline in domestic production and reported that it would be around 20,000 tonnes and by extrapolation setting Cameroon's national production to 210 000 tonnes.

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13.Oct.2015

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A suicide bomber was killed this morning at Kerawa in the Mayo-Sava division, Far North region of Cameroon. The suicide bomber got killed by the explosion of his bomb as he approached Seradji Kerawa main market. A businessman was seriuosly injured. A double attack occurred on Sunday at Kangaleri that killed 11 and wounded 29.

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12.Oct.2015

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One of Cameroon’s most celebrated news commentators and veteran journalist, Michael Sam-Nuvela Fonkem, has made a peaceful transition to eternity in Buea at the age of 62. He passed on at the Buea Regional Hospital on October 8, 2015 at about 7.30 pm after suffering from a long infection. His death comes three months after he retired from the United Nations Operations in Cote d’Ivoire where he served as a Public Information Officer since 2010. When Cameroon Tribune arrived at the Government Residential Area (GRA) Buea where he resided, wailing family members said Sam-Nuvela died at a time they least expected.

“He was expected in the days ahead to launch two of his books. One of them being “Snapshots,” the spouse, Fonkem née Manyi Fofung Immaculate, revealed. Michael Sam-Nuvela was born on January 28, 1953 in Ikeja; Lagos, Nigeria. He joined the then Radio Cameroon in the late 70’s after graduating from the International School of Journalism, Yaoundé (ESIJY) in 1976. He worked with the likes of George Ngwa, Adamu Musa, and Luke Ananga, Ebssiy Ngum, and Akwanka Joe Ndifor; all of blessed memory on the no-nonsense Sunday special, “Cameroon Report,” that castigated the wrongs in government cycles. Retired journalist and one time Station Manager of Radio Buea, Paul Kode, recalls memories of the falling former colleague. “What I admired about Sam-Nuvela is his natural gift of a golden voice. All of us were broadcasters but some were more gifted than others and Sam was among the gifted.”

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12.Oct.2015

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