China Petroleum Corp. Set To Ship Its Oil Via Cameroon By End Of 2012 - Official

[RNW Africa] Yaoundé - A young Cameroonian engineer has built the first fully touch screen medical tablet that could soon save many African lives. He first has to find the necessary funding to mass-produce the device.

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon's cocoa mid-crop harvest is at risk to an outbreak of capsid bugs in the centre and caterpillars in the south-west, according to field reports from two regions that make up 80 percent of output. Capsids are insects which attack trees, feed on the young branches and cause crop loss. They are most active when the young branches shoot out and spread during the dry ...

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Farmgate cocoa prices rose between five and 25 percent in Cameroon, the world's fifth largest producer's main growing regions on the back of tight supplies as the main cocoa harvest season tails off, farmers said on Monday. Farmers said prices rose to about 980 CFA francs from 930 CFA francs per kg in Kumba, in the South West region and from 800 CFA francs to 1000 CFA francs ...

RNW Africa (Hilversum)-More and more young Cameroonian women are taking up smoking. But they are usually doing it out of the sight of their parents. Some in Cameroon society regard tobacco consumption as a sign of emancipation; others see it as a bad sign of the times.

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon has decided to keep subsidies on fuel through 2012 in an effort to help ordinary citizens, a state-run agency said on Thursday, ditching a plan to slash the costly programme. The decision follows protests and strikes in neighbouring Nigeria that forced the government there to roll back a huge fuel price hike, which was intended to divert public funds toward ...

[Nation] Yaounde - Cameroon wants a new contract with Chad over transportation of oil.

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon exported 131,989 tonnes of cocoa by the end of December since the season started in August, according to data from the National Cocoa and Coffee Board (NCCB) sent to Reuters on Tuesday. That is down about 11 percent from the 148,973 tonnes exported by the world's No. 5 cocoa grower during the same period a year earlier, according to the figures. The central African ...

Writer Enoh Meyomesse landed in Yaounde, Cameroon after a trip to Singapore on November 22. As he deplaned, the national police detained him, searched his belongings, and accused him of stealing gold as part of a sophisticated coup d'état against President Paul Biya.

The jury of the Mvet 2011 announced its decision at the CRTV Centre Regional Station on Saturday 4th febuary.