Cameroon Echoes {Echos Camerounais}

Ivory Coast lays claim to Ghana's oil

A dispute could break out between Ghana and neighbouring Ivory Coast, if immediate steps are not taken to enter into appropriate negotiations to redefine the international boundary between the two nations. Ghana's Western neighbor Ivory Coast is reportedly laying claims to portions of the huge oil wealth in the deep waters of the Western Region of Ghana.

In a move to save the situation, Ghana has begun an urgent move to pass a new law that seeks to establish the Ghana Boundary Commission to undertake negotiations to determine and demarcate Ghana’s land boundaries and de-limit Ghana’s maritime boundaries. 

Ghana’s Parliament has therefore been tasked to race against time to pass the Ghana Boundary Commission Bill under a certificate of urgency. 

Speaking to an Accra based fm station, Citi fm, Ghana’s Minister for Lands and Forestry, Hon Collins Dauda, who laid the bill before Parliament, said the government is doing everything possible to avoid a full-blown international dispute with the nation’s Western neighbour.

"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). 

Monument – or eyesore?

It is the first thing you will see when you land at Dakar Airport. It sits atop a hill and is 'larger than the Statue of Liberty,' as Senegalese president Abdoualye Wade loves to crow. It's his idea, he claims - others are less sure. And he firmly believes that millions of tourists will flock to his country once his Monument for the African Renaissance opens to the public, next April. The date will coincide with Senegal's ascension to Independence, 50 years ago.

Criticisms include cost (it has cost upwards of €20 million to build), location (it sits in an area that should have been left alone) and, indeed aesthetics – very few think the Soviet-style statue is appealing to the eye. 

Libérons Lapiro ! - Free Lapiro ! Album is Out

 

(Album sample available at http://mp3.mondomix.com/liberons-lapiro)

 Some international music icons have added their voices to press for the liberation of Lapiro de Mbanga after that of civil society organisations.

Music stars of different horizons and nationality have put together an album of eleven tracks dedicated to Lapiro de Mbanga of Cameroon incarcerated since March 2008 in Kondengui prison shortly after the February 2008 social unrest. The authorities, it should be recalled, accused the legendary musician of fanning the February 2008 uprising flames by instigating youths to go on the streets. 

UNE PRÉSUMÉE CAMEROUNAISE RETROUVÉE MORTE DANS UNE MAISON CLOSE EN ALLEMAGNE

Une femme sans nom retrouvée morte à Hagen

Un fait bien singulier s'est produit dans la matinée de Dimanche à Hagen. En effet, la police a retrouvé dans un bordel de la ville une femme morte. Cette dernière vivait dans la ville sous une fausse identité, le passeport camerounais retrouvé dans la chambre ne lui appartenant pas, d'après le procureur qui l'a déclaré une conférence de presse. La police cherche maintenant à identifier cette femme et a publié sa photo en invitant toute personne la reconnaissant à se manifester. 

Le procureur de Hagen a admis lors de la conférence de presse que la police n'avait pour l'instant aucune piste pour identifier cette femme présumée prostituée à l'identité inconnue. Wolfgang Rahmer a même montré de la compassion pour celle qu'il a qualifiée de "jolie jeune femme, qu'on ne pouvait pas oublier si on l'avait rencontrée", avant d'ajouter "qu'elle a été vue vivante pour la dernière fois à 4 heures 30, regardant par la fenêtre, avant certainement d'aller offrir son corps à un client qui l'avait remarquée."