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Boluda Corporación Marítima, through its filial in Cameroon and inside its programe of Social Corporative Responsibility inaugurated the Maritime Museum of the City of Douala in combination with the National Council of Stevedorers of Cameroon (CNCC) some years ago. With the creation of the museum, Boluda Corporacion Maritima made public its compromise with the countries in which it operates and the promotion of its economic and cultural development

The museum provided an insight into the relations from ancient times that the African continent had maintained with the maritime world. In it, tourists were provided with the different works related with the sea and the ports activity. With a clear educational vocation, the museum encouraged cultural activities inside the city of Douala. The center was a reference for port life and acted like an economic showcase of the professionals of maritime world.

The center is now a thing of the past as a mysterious fire ravaged the building down early on Sunday the 3^rd of May 2015. Our intelligence officers in the economic capital of Douala are yet to establish the real cause of the fire. A report by CRTV’s Ngomba Endeley sent to our Essen bureau in Germany, at the time of writing this report did not provide any further details. However, our informant in the Littoral region hinted that a political war is currently going on involving the various investors in the ports of Douala and Kribi. Our source also suggested that the fire is manmade and not accidental. Cameroon Concord's editorial desk has opened a major investigation.  

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03.May.2015

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Cameroonians have contributed more than 1 billion CFA francs to support the army in its war against the Nigerian Islamic sect, Boko Haram, Cameroon Concord has gathered from government sources in Yaounde. According to René Emmanuel Sadi, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation (MINATD), who also moonlights as Chairman of the management committee of the gifts offered to support the Cameroon army, 1 billion, 29 million five hundred thousand CFA francs, have so far been collected from the Cameroonian people to support troops engaged at the front against Boko Haram. Contributions are continuing throughout the national territory.

The amount contributed by Cameroonians is in a special bank account under the direct supervision of Alamine Ousmane Mey, Minister of Finance, revealed Minister Rene Sadi after a meeting on Thursday night. Cameroon Concord’s Chairman and Editor-in-Chief was reliably informed at the time of writing this report that “in-kind donations” such as (pasta, preserves, meat, vegetables, rice, soap, fruits ...) sent by the presidential couple have been distributed to members of the security and defense forces.

 

 

 

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02.May.2015

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Employees and employers in Cameroon and beyond will today May 1^st, 2015 commemorate the 129th edition of the International Labour Day on the theme “Construct the Future of Cameroon in Peace, Solidarity and Decent Work”. Week-long activities to commemorate the event were launched last Friday in Njombe Penja in the Mungo Division of the Littoral Region by the Minister of Labour and Social Security, Gregoire Owona.  Activities will end with a march-past and merry making on Friday May 1^st in all administrative units and business structures in the country.

For over a week, workers and employers have organised different activities to mark the day which seeks to raise awareness on working conditions and labour productivity amongst other things. Besides sporting activities to commemorate the day, enterprises together with workers’ trade unions also organised round-table discussions on several issues affecting staff members at their different work places. The National Trade Union for Communicators and Media Personnel in Cameroon dubbed (SYNATRACOMEC) last Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at studio I of the CRTV broadcasting house in Yaounde organised a conference on the theme “The Place of Collective Convention and Social Dialogue in an Enterprise”. For close to an hour, CRTV journalist, François Dina Valdez, moderated discussions between the National President of SYNATRACOMEC, Thomas Mbiakeu and the Secretary General of the General Union of Cameroon workers, Pierre Dimala Ndenga. This was on the theme of discussion which aimed at bringing out the importance of a collective convention within an enterprise and the positive fallouts of social dialogue between employers and employees. With the distribution of T-shirts, caps and loin cloth that carry the logos of different companies, workers are all set to celebrate their day in different parts of the country.

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01.May.2015

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(Reuters) - Six Baltimore police officers will face criminal charges, including second-degree murder and manslaughter, in the death of a black man who was arrested and suffered a fatal neck injury while riding in a moving police van, the city's chief prosecutor said on Friday.

Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby said Freddie Gray, who died a week after his April 12 arrest, was in handcuffs but otherwise was not restrained inside the van. The officers failed to provide medical attention to Gray even though he asked for help on at least two occasions.

Gray's death has become the latest flashpoint in a national outcry over the treatment of African-Americans and other minority groups by U.S. law enforcement.

After a night of rioting in Baltimore on Monday, protests spread to other major cities in a reprise of demonstrations last year set off by police killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, New York and elsewhere.

Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the officers charged, Mosby said at a dramatic news conference in front of a city office building across from Baltimore City Hall. In addition to murder and manslaughter, charges include assault, misconduct and false imprisonment.

Representatives for the police union and Gray's family were not immediately available for comment.

"We put all our resources to make sure we were pursuing and leading where the facts took us in this case, which was to pursue justice," Mosby said, a day after the Baltimore Police Department turned over findings from its internal investigation.

Mosby said the Maryland chief medical examiner ruled Gray's death a homicide. The 25-year-old Gray was no longer breathing when he was finally removed from the van, Mosby said.

 

 

 

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01.May.2015

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For President Barack Obama, the riots in Baltimore marked the return of a recurring nightmare that continues to bedevil him: How to stop deadly encounters between police and African-Americans and the resulting race-related violence.

The first African-American president has declared again and again that Americans have more work to do to bridge the racial divide and carry on the civil rights struggle of Martin Luther King Jr.

And Tuesday was no different. A day after riots in Baltimore over Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died April 19 of a broken spine in police custody, Obama gave a thoughtful diagnosis of the problem but announced no new initiatives and declared there is a limit to what he can do.

“I think there are police departments that have to do some soul searching. I think there’s some communities that have to do some soul searching. But I think we as a country have to do some soul searching. This is not new. It’s been going on for decades," Obama said.

Obama has been struggling with the issue since protests erupted last year over the death of Michael Brown, a black teenager who was shot dead by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. A grand jury decided not to indict the police officer, Darren Wilson.

A task force ordered by the president recommended a series of measures in March aimed at building confidence between police departments and the minority neighborhoods they patrol.

The recommendations, which included having police shootings investigated by independent prosecutors, have yet to be put in place and there are questions about how to pay for them, with the Democrat Obama facing a Republican Congress in no mood to approve much new spending.

Obama's proposal for $263 million to help purchase 50,000 body-worn cameras for police and pay for expanded training has stalled in Congress.

With rioting against police and arson and looting erupting in Baltimore, Obama found himself again offering condolences to the families of victims and sympathy to injured police officers.

But he made a point of bemoaning Americans' tendency to focus on violence while it rages on their TV screens but pay little attention to helping find ways to help lift up impoverished communities.

"If our society really wanted to solve the problem, we could. It's just it would require everybody saying this is important, this is significant, and that we don't just pay attention to these communities when a CVS burns and ...when a young man gets shot or has his spine snapped," said Obama.

Obama, at a joint news conference with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said it was important for police departments to recognize that some of them have a problem in how they deal with criminal suspects of color.

"There are some police who aren't doing the right thing," he said. Rather than close ranks, he said, some police chiefs have recognized "they've got to get their arms" around the problem.

The Baltimore riots have caused ripples among the Republicans who are jockeying for the party's 2016 presidential nomination.

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a leading contender, said there needs to be a commitment to "the rule of law and to law enforcement" but that whatever happened should be investigated quickly to give people confidence in the system.

 

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29.Apr.2015

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