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Gloomy But Promising Days For Bilingualism in Cameroon

 Gloomy is the picture of bilingualism in Cameroon after five years of its being promulgated into law as a national issue and national priority.

From a detailed report tendered recently during the 2010 regional launching of the fifth edition of the National Day of Bilingualism under the theme 'Quality Bilingualism for Quality Education', the South West Regional Delegate for Secondary Education, Francis Ngundu, declared, that "a lot has been achieved as far as the promotion of bilingualism is concerned, but there is much needs to be done".

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Did De Beers cheat Botswana? – The Masire Factor

 When David Magang sat down to write his memoirs, he certainly could not complain that his career had left him short of material.

The former Minister of Mineral Resources and Water Affairs, who has waged a protracted battle for diamond beneficiation against De Beers, had a front row seat at some of the most questionable goings on between the diamond mining giant and the Botswana government.

“I racked my brains to understand why government was so submissive in its dealings with De Beers. Was this the result of our being in awe of them?

Council Buries Unidentified Corpse

The remains of an unidentified body, found on Mount Cameroon, reached the palace of the Chief of Bokwaongo on Thursday. 

John Mwambo, a resident of Bokwaongo, on going to harvest honey from the mountain came across a corpse on February 28th, 2008. He informed Chief Linonge Francis Kinge, the President of the Buea Sub Divisional Chiefs Council, the other Chiefs as well as the administration for measures to be taken in identifying and burying the corpse. To be sure, the Chiefs on their part sent back John Mwambo and another villagers for verification. 

Mass protest in Togo against African Cup football ban

More than 10,000 people have demonstrated in Togo against a decision to ban the country from the next two African Cup of Nations tournaments.

The Confederation of African Football (Caf) suspended Togo for withdrawing from this year's competition in Angola.

Togo pulled out after an attack on its team bus killed two officials on 8 January, days before the tournament.

The protesters in the Togolese capital Lome called for the Caf president, Issa Hayatou, to resign. The protestors marched through the streets of Lome carrying placards saying: "Issa Hayatou must go" and "Issa Hayatou, you have outstayed your usefulness".

Zuma: I'm sorry. Opposition:His sexual advances to the children of his friends... go to the heart of his moral bankruptcy,"

1. President Jacob Zuma has apologized to the nation for fathering a child out of wedlock with the daughter of soccer boss Irvin Khoza. There is great danger the scandal would overshadow his state of the nation speech on Thursday evening amid accusations that his administration is in a state of torpor.

   

   After vigorously defending himself, Zuma bowed to pressure at the weekend and apologized - his second apology in recent years for similar acts.
   
   Ruling African National Congress officials are due this week to commemorate the 20th anniversary of former president Nelson Mandela's release from prison at various ceremonies in the Western Cape, culminating in Zuma's state of the nation speech on the actual day Mandela was freed in 1990.
   
   
   

   
   

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"In My Genes"- Remarkable Documentary by star of "Shuga" Series, Lupita Nyong'o

Lupita says, “I embarked on this documentary as a way to educate myself and others like me on the condition of albinism and to shed light on the stigma, discrimination and persecution that they face because of their difference. It is alarming that this special condition that exists in every race and civilization of human beings – and indeed in most animal species – should be so hyper-visible and yet so socially invisible (In my research I could not find any traditional stories with people with albinism as characters, for example). 

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