Daily dose of news this September 3, 2021

Health officials in Bafut in the North West Region of Cameroon say 30 people have been infected by COVID-19, with four deaths in two weeks. This has promted the Bafut Mayor to embark on a mass disinfection campaign in the Subdivision.

Days to the resumption of the 2021/2022 school year, travel agencies in Bamenda are crowded with students leaving the region to seek education in other towns. It has become a routine since the start of the Anglophone crisis.


There is a steady increase in the number of book vendors and other school related materials in Bamenda. Years back, selling school materials in public was tantamount to kidnapping and torture by separatist fighters.


Victims of the Dschang Cliff accident were today honoured in the Menoua Division by the population of the West Region. The official state funeral was overseen by the SDO for the Menoua Division, Godlove Mboke.


The Delegate for National Security has once more called on Cameroonians to go collect their ID Cards and Passports from their production centers. Stocks of them are reportedly pending collection.


The population of Bui and Donga Mantung rejoice after revelations that the road linking Kumbo and Nkambe would be reopened. The stretch of road has been shut for almost 4 years by the Separatist fighters.


Vincent Aboubakar has now become the first player to score a goal at the newly constructed Yaoundé Olembe Football Stadium. He scored in the 9th minute of their World Cup qualifying encounter against the Flames of Malawi.