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Family Photo  By Raymond Dingana It's been two years since the once vibrant community, peace journalism, and conflict transformation network, the Cameroon Community Media Network (CCMN), went into hibernation. However, the spirit of peace journalism and conflict transformation hasn't left the network. This explains why members felt the need to revive and reenergize the organization. On Tuesday, December 10, 2024, members met in Bamenda for a strategic workshop focused on revitalizing the Cameroon Community Media Network. The gathering aimed to chart a way forward for the association. CCMN Members At The Meeting With resources from Brot für die Welt, the workshop concentrated on reorganizing the governance structure and developing a regional action plan, among other objectives. According to Pedmia Shatu Tita, the acting North West Regional Coordinator of CCMN, the goal is to make CCMN great again. "CCMN has always been 90% community and 10% media, and we felt it was importa...

By Raymond Dingana  On Tuesday March 5th,2024, the Office of the Public Independent Conciliator (OPIC) sent shock waves down the spines of mayors of municipal councils found wanting in the area of Ethical Misconducts This was during the publication of the institution's 2023 Annual Activity Report by the Public Independent Conciliator  (PIC) for the North West, Mr. Tamfu Simon Fai days after submitting it to the President of the Republic, Paul Biya. Given that it's mission is to ensure that services rendered by municipal councils to the population are void of discrimination,and marginalization, with the respect of human rights, OPIC has been watching over the activities of councils, fighting to stamp out unethical practices in the discharge of council services. Tamfu Simon Fai  After a survey that was carried out in 2023, with the help of Community Based Assistants from all the council areas in the region, the results proved that some municipal authorities are not willing ...

PPRD  Tamanjong Motuba Obese Talking At The Follow Up Committee Meeting Raymond Dingana  The National Coordinator of the Presidential Plan for the Reconstruction and Development of the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon has invited local development partners especially mayors to get on board and ensure that projects under the PPRD are executed in record time. Tamanjong Motuba Obese was speaking at the first ever Follow Up Committee Meeting for the PPRD recently in Bamenda chaired by North West Governor Adolphe Lele Lafrique. He said one of the challenges faced by the PPRD is poor collaboration coming from some administrators like mayors. I am Calling on mayors and other local development partners to provide maximum support to the United Nation Development Programmed UNDP so that all the projects are finished on time,   said Tamanjong. Tamanjong Motuba also disclosed that 3.2 billion CFAF will be used in the domain of Social Cohesion, over 14 billion on infrastr...

    President, NWRA  At Midterm Ordinary Session Of The Institution By Raymond Dingana Ever since the Anglophone Crisis degenerated in to a deadly arm conflict in the years  2017/2018, businesses have received a massive blow as a result of insecurity which has pushed many away from the North West Region (NWR). Many have migrated to other regions of Cameroon where they have set up businesses and started life anew all to the  impairment of the NWR which is in dire need of the human resources and the revenue generated by the business sector which are now being enjoyed by other areas. In order to arrest the situation, the President of the North West Regional Assembly (NWRA), Prof. Fru Fobuzshi  Angwafo III has called on business persons who have fled the crisis hit region to turn their eyes back home. Members Of The NWRA In Session He made the outing on day one of the 11th Ordinary Session of the Assembly dedicated to the Budget Orientation of the ins...

By Raymond Dingana The Association for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship (ASSOPEN) under the sponsorship of Hon.Hamza Baba Danpullo of the North West Regional Assembly (NWRA) has donated school needs to the Old Town Community in Bamenda II, North West Region of Cameroon. The donation of school bags, books, pens, pencils among others came barely weeks to the start of the 2022/2023 academic year. Some Of The Items Destined For The Children During the distribution exercise at Old Town in Bamenda, Friday August 19,2022, the First Deputy Mayor of the Bamenda City Council, Chi David Ndoh invited the beneficiaries to make good use of the items, Chi David Ndoh At The Event In Old Town Don't collect the items and keep them at home. Make sure you resume school come September 5th, he said and added that, parents should encourage their children go to school. Education is all what a child needs to be a better person tomorrow. Also present at the event was the Divisional Officer (D.O) for Bamend...

Dr. Jacqueline N. Fonkwo Aiding Youths On How To Navigate The NANG App By Raymond Dingana Youth 2 Youth Cameroon, a Youth Centered non governmental organization working in the North West Region of Cameroon has set in motion a digital application known as NANG to promote sex education and reproductive health among young persons in Bamenda and the North West Region as a whole. The aime of NANG is to render services like sexual and reproductive health education, free online chat with a medical doctor and geolocation services to locate a health facility near you. The mobile application which has been potrayed as the "game-changing solution for young people's sexual and reproductive health in Cameroon" was launched in Bamenda Saturday August 6,2022 during an event profoundly graced with the present of young people from different class. As pointed out by the main lead of Youth 2 Youth Cameroon, Dr. Jacqueline N. Fonkwo, one of the reason behind the project baptised NANG: the...

Fru Angwafo III, President NW Regional Assembly By Raymond Dingana The President of the North West Regional Assembly, Fru Angwafo III has prescribed the Bottom- Top approach to local developement as a way forward for the developement of the North West Region. He says the projects to be executed will come from the grassroot populations through their representatives and not from the top as the case has always been. Members Of The Regional Assembly In Session He was speaking Tuesday July 26,2022 during the July Ordinary Session of the Regional Assembly currently meeting in the conference room of the Assembly in Bamenda, The Communities will identify their needed and priotized projects and the Regional Assembly through its Regional Councilors will support these projects. It is a bottom-up appraoch that is the order of the day meaning we will not be the ones deciding for them , he pointed out. He also expressed the wish to see all stakeholders to do all in their power in order to win back p...

  Hon.Ujambeng Stephen, Representative For Momo Division By Raymond Dingana The Regional Representative for Momo Division, Northwest Region of Cameroon has disclosed some of the areas where they can capitalize on to cause peace return to the region. Hon. Ujambeng Stephen spoke to drayinfos.com Tuesday July 26,2022 during the June session of the Northwest Regional Assembly currently taking place in Bamenda. Some are in to petit trading, poultry farming, piggery, fisheries, among others. We can encourage them at those levels to better their lives. The people also need farm to market roads for easy evacuation of their crops from the farms to the markets among others,  Hon.Ujembeng said. He further explained that though they really want to serve their communities, the means is not there, Our people are suffering, yet we don't even have the means to help them. Medicine stores don't have medication, we can't even afford to help, we don't even have the power to stand and talk ...

NW Regional Coordinator Of DDR Receiving The Day Old Chicks From CDENO By Raymond Dingana The Regional Coordinator of the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Center (DDR) Bamenda says making the place productive and comfortable for the ex-fighters of the armed conflict in the two Anglophone Regions of Cameroon is his top priority for now. Kum Henry Ichu was speaking Friday 15 July 2022 after empowering the center with 5000 day-old chicks and bags of fowl feed where he also indicated that he wants to transform DDR Bamenda in to a Production Center. The 5000 Day-Old Chicks Already At The Center The aim of the donation according to Kum Henry Ichu is to make life worth living for those at the center and to empower the former fighters so that they can have something doing and batter take care of themselves. He said after learning, it is time to engage in practicals. The children at the center also need to have a good life by engaging in activities that can fetch them some cash in ...