L'Effort Camerounais (English Version)

Car Owners to start paying parking fees in Bamenda

By Percy Afuh

Accustomed to a lax parking system, car owners in Bamenda have swung into a new prescribed parking order. With narrow and few paved roads, Bamenda city dwellers had steeled themselves for annoying traffic jams during the morning and evening rush hours on work days.

Cameroon Panorama and political publications since Independence

By Dr. George Atem

Staying the course in 50 years!

The imminent celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Cameroon Panorama, CP, calls for deeper reflection on the magazine's existence vis-à-vis other publications in Cameroon since independence.

Traditional rulers promise better leadership

By Jude Abanseka

The Justice and Peace Commission, JPC, of Bamenda Archdiocese has, in collaboration with MISEREOR, organised a two-day training workshop on Transformational Leadership for Peace.

Cameroon's first wedding medals introduced in Kumbo

By Emmanuel Verdzeka

Kumbo Council has introduced the first wedding medals and post cards in Cameroon. The innovation was made public recently during the council's budgetary session in which FCFA 847 Million was voted as the budget for Kumbo Urban Council for 2012.

Pioneer Catholic Women Association National General Secretary and Second National President dies

By Jude Abanseka

The Pioneer Catholic Women Association National General Secretary and Second National President, Ma Florence Lum Zamcho aka Dodo, died on December 8; Feast of the Immaculate Conception, at the Bamenda Regional Hospital after a protracted illness.

Tears on Christmas Day as family celebrates in poverty

By Joseph Tabung Banah

2011 Christmas as desolate in some places as the environment

On Sunday, December 25, Christian families around the world celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ. In some families in Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, the day was one of unrestrained and lavish celebrations, but in one family, we saw children with no Christmas gifts and very little food to eat that day.

Three Cameroonians win the International Madonna University Charity Peace Award

By Augustine Wendung on special assignment in Nigeria

Three Cameroonians, Margaret Loh, Aloysious N’jok Bibum and Margaret Anne Bibum, among others, have won this year’s Madonna International Charity Peace Award, MICPA. The founder, Rev. Fr. Prof. Emmanuel Mathew Paul Edeh, C.S.S.S, awarded the prizes on November 26 in Madonna University, Nigeria.

Thieves burgle St. Therese Parish Sop

By Fr.  Joseph Dufe

Damaged attempted-stolen parish car

It is Christmas and men of the underworld have gone into action once again. This time thieves visited St. Therese Parish Sop on the night of Friday, December 2. The Parish Priest had just returned from the Bambui Seminary after a tiring day. He washed the car and  parked it safely in front of the Parish Office and retired to the Novitiate community.

Cardinal Christian Tumi receives yet another International recognition

By Grace Ongey

No end yet to his awards

Transparency International has designated Douala Emeritus Archbishop Christian Cardinal Wiyghan Tumi winner of the 2011 Global Integrity Award. The anti-corruption organisation, Transparency International, made the announcement public on November 24, 2011 in a ceremony the International Anti-Corruption Academy, IACA, hosted in Laxenburg, Austria, as part of the 11th European Partners Against Corruption (EPAC/EACN) Annual Professional Conference.

St. Bedes ex-students hold AGM in Kumbo

By Emmanuel Verdzeka

St. Bedes ex-students association, SABESA, has held its Annual General Meeting, AGM, in Kumbo. The AGM, which took place from November 18 to 20, was, among other things, aimed at helping the ex-students fine-tune preparations ahead of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of St. Bede’s College, Ashing, Kom in 2013.