Biya Dash Hopes of Political Prisoners, Declares Fresh War against Terrorism and Commitment to Restore Peace in the Country, While Containing COVID-19 Phase III

Fellow Cameroonians,

My Dear Compatriots,

This year, the coronavirus pandemic has yet again featured among the major causes for concern worldwide. 

The disease has not been eradicated despite significant efforts by the scientific community and governments.

It is noted that the virus tends to adapt to our environment over time, as evidenced by the emergence of new variants, thus making control of the pandemic particularly challenging. 

Unfortunately, it continues to plunge families into mourning, disrupt social life and create economic distortions.

Should we then despair and yield to pessimism? Obviously NO.

We learn from history that this is not humanity’s first epidemic, and it is undoubtedly far from being its last. 

By the way, I am confident that we will overcome the coronavirus in the same manner as previous epidemics.

For my part, I will spare no effort in ensuring that the requisite measures to stem its spread in our country are actually implemented. 

The response strategy implemented by the Government is yielding excellent results. Over the past two years, it has helped to save lives and to curb the spread of COVID-19 in our country. 

Accordingly, it should be continued and, as appropriate, improved to better adapt to the mutations of this dangerous virus. 

Hence, the need to stay alert and to continue observing the rules of hygiene and preventive measures such as wearing a mask in all public places or physical distancing.

However, given the virulence of the virus, vaccination is definitely an additional preventive measure. 

In many cases, a full vaccination course helps to avert severe complications of the disease, which are generally fatal.

That is why I urge each and every one to get vaccinated and not to pay heed to the conspiracy theories that abound on social media about the coronavirus vaccine. 

Indeed, combining preventive measures with vaccination will enable us to break the chain of contamination of this virus and return to normal life more speedily.

My Dear Compatriots,

Notwithstanding the persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic-related health crisis, we have remained focused on the target we set within the framework of our National Development Strategy for the 2020–2030 period.

Despite its adverse impact on the economic fabric, we have relentlessly continued implementing our transformational projects, thanks to the sustained mobilization of non-oil revenue, the implementation of domestic budget consolidation measures and support from our development partners.

Fiscal reforms, particularly in the taxation and customs sectors, have boosted our capacity to mobilize funds from the international financial market. 

The credibility of Cameroon’s signature thus helped to successfully refinance the Eurobond and to conclude a new Economic and Financial Programme with the International Monetary Fund.

Thanks to financial resources mobilized both within and outside the country, substantial investments have been made to complete the first- generation transformational projects.

These include:

• completion of the first phase of the Yaounde-Nsimalen, Yaounde-Douala and Kribi-Lolabe motorways. They have been operationalized under public-private partnerships;
• construction of 914 kilometres of asphalted roads;
• extension of the health map with the commissioning of the Ebolowa and Bafoussam referral hospitals, as well as the completion of that of Garoua;
• implementation of projects to achieve energy self-sufficiency through continuation of construction work on the Nachtigal dam and completion of the hydropower transmission line from the Memve’elé dam. 

Works are ongoing to interconnect the Northern and Southern electrical grids. The implementation of this project will contribute to a sustainable reduction of the energy deficit in our country’s northern regions.  

At the same time, there was a need to continue ensuring private sector competitiveness in a macro-economic environment severely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

It is common knowledge that the pandemic has led to rising sea freight costs, thus directly increasing the price of essential goods. 

Aware of the huge sacrifices made by national economic operators to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic, I instructed the Government to reduce by 80% the sea freight transportation cost to be included in calculating customs duties. 

The Government must also continue discussions with the private sector to identify further measures that can be implemented. 

By the way, if we have to meet the growth challenge, we must strive to reduce our imports and increase the volume of our exports by boosting domestic production. 

In any case, it behoves us to create conditions for more robust, sustainable, inclusive and employment-generating growth, particularly for our youths who are and will remain the primary beneficiaries of ongoing reforms in various areas.

Considering the measures taken, we have reason to be optimistic about economic recovery and an uptick in our growth rate to 4.2% in 2022, from 3.6% in 2021. This positive outlook is consistent with that of a global return to   growth as announced by the relevant international bodies. Our country has the capacity to make the most of this situation. 

My Dear Compatriots, 

Despite the challenges faced by our country, we continue to be respected on a global scale. 

The trust Cameroon enjoys among our partners is the result of our constant efforts to ensure that the country remains the haven of peace and stability that it has always been.    

To this end, we have stepped up our efforts to maintain peace and security nationwide.  

Boko Haram’s sporadic incursions into the Far-North Region in recent months have been met with stiff resistance from our defence forces. Once more, I wish to pay them a well-deserved tribute for their courage, commitment and professionalism. 

I take this opportunity to commend the full mobilization of the nation’s lifeblood, the population and vigilante committees, that are contributing decisively to the success of our popular defence strategy.

I am pleased to note that a large number of our compatriots who had joined armed groups have accepted my peace overture. 

Many Boko Haram members have laid down their arms and are being catered for in Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Centres in the Far-North Region. The same holds true in the North-West and South-West Regions where many members of armed groups continue to surrender. 

However, many of our compatriots remain within the ranks of armed groups. They continue to engage in criminal activities, increasing attacks with improvised explosive devices and murders of unarmed civilians.

The recent assassination of three students and a teacher of Bilingual High School Ekondo Titi added to their long list of abuses and atrocities.

I would like, once again, to reiterate Government’s firm determination to restore peace in the regions that are under security threats. 

It should be clearly understood that wherever the perpetrators and sponsors of such acts are hiding, they will be relentlessly tracked down and will face the full force of the law.

In this fierce fight against barbarism, I urge the Cameroonian people to step up collaboration with our defence and security forces in order to neutralize the fanatics of armed violence and to preserve the integrity of our territory.

Many of our compatriots have fallen in battle while engaged in this lofty civil and military defence task. May our determination to keep up the fight bring solace to them as their sacrifice for the Republic will not be in vain. 

They are role models for our youths, whom I urge to shun indoctrination attempts by secessionist groups.

In this fight against terrorism, we plan to enlist the support of a wide range of partner States by debunking falsehoods about our country’s human rights situation propagated within international circles by some of Cameroon’s detractors. 

My Dear Compatriots, 

True to our commitment to peace and tolerance, we have continued to demonstrate openness and readiness for dialogue in order to call a halt to this crisis that has wreaked far too much suffering on our populations. 

Thus, after holding the Major National Dialogue, we have continued to accelerate and deepen decentralization. 

Regions, as regional and local authorities, were set up this year and are beginning to find their feet. 

The North-West and South-West Regions have been granted special status to reflect their cultural and language specificities.

Overall, regionalization is being implemented countrywide and contributes towards increasing our fellow citizens’ participation in the management of local affairs.

These democratic strides very clearly demonstrate that our country is irreversibly and resolutely engaged in the methodical perfection of its democratic process, in order to further meet the legitimate aspirations of the Cameroonian people.

I am fully aware that some people would prefer that we move faster in this area. However, we must avoid any kind of haste that may undermine our country’s unity and our republican ideal. Surely, we will carefully and patiently do whatever needs to be done.

In all circumstances, we must promote constructive and regular dialogue between the various sociological components of the Republic in order to mobilize them for our country’s emergence. 

My Dear Compatriots,

Lately, we have witnessed an upsurge in unpatriotic behaviour, the proliferation of hate speech and the posting of violent, obscene and shameful videotapes which have shocked the nation’s collective conscience.

The persistent publication of “fake-news” in the mainstream or social media has contributed towards sustaining falsehood, thus preventing many of our fellow citizens from getting the right information on key issues.

Therefore, I appeal to your sense of individual responsibility and urge each of you to promote the culture of peace.

I call on the Government to step up efforts to raise awareness on the responsible use of social media by all social classes. 

We must remain a patriotic, united and supportive people. 

We must cherish peace and seek harmony at all times.

Let us resolve to actively ensure that these values promote living together to which our people as a whole deeply aspire. 

Fellow Cameroonians,

My Dear Compatriots, 

We are faced with specific challenges at the dawn of the new year. Our country will host the Africa Cup of Nations from 9 January to 6 February 2022. 

In the run-up to the tournament, we have all witnessed the profound transformation that has taken place in the cities that will host AFCON 2021 matches.

The preparation of the tournament has helped to accelerate the infrastructural development of many of our cities. 

Urban roads have been constructed or rehabilitated. 

The technical capacity of existing health facilities has been upgraded. New hospitals with state-of-the-art equipment have been built in our regional capitals. 

Ultramodern hotels have been built to accommodate official delegations, special guests and tourists who will visit Cameroon during the tournament.

We will continue implementing this investment programme by reducing the infrastructure disparities existing between the regions of our country in various areas.

It is unacceptable that some regions should feel forsaken, while others are progressing.

That is why I decided to create State universities in the three regions of our country that do not yet have one, namely the East, North and South Regions. Other infrastructure will follow, particularly in the airport, industrial and road sectors, in order to make each region a real development hub. 

To that end, we must enhance public finance management governance by fighting corruption and embezzlement of public funds. 

Therefore, all those found guilty of financial malpractice or illicit enrichment will face the consequences before the competent courts.

My Dear Compatriots,

As we prepare to celebrate African football, I urge Cameroonians to mobilize massively to make AFCON 2021 the most beautiful football jamboree ever organized on our continent.

We want it to be a great moment of brotherhood. It therefore behoves us to extend a warm welcome to the 24 sports delegations, officials and all those who will be staying in our country during the tournament. 

Let us offer our guests the rich cultural diversity that has earned our country the nickname “Africa in miniature”. Let us extend to them the hospitality they rightfully expect from us, and which is part and parcel of our traditions. 

Thanks to the virtues of our people, particularly their courage and selflessness, we have not only overcome the ordeals encountered during this year that is ending, but we have also continued to forge ahead. 

As a Nation, we have the duty and opportunity to remind the world that we are a united and indomitable people, capable of displaying this fighting spirit that has enabled us in the past to win great battles.

Before I conclude, I would like to call on our Beloved Indomitable Lions to do their utmost to ensure that they end this festival in grand style on the evening of 6 February 2022. 

Let us rise to the challenge and remind the world that we are a great Nation. 

Happy and prosperous New Year 2022. 

Long live the Republic!

Long live Cameroon!

Prophetic Editorial: “Cross Over Message from the Prophetic to Cameroonians” By the General Overseer of World Echoes MEDIA GROUP

Extraordinary 2022 Loading as we Enter Phase III Deathly COVID-19 Scare

The clock and the fountain wheel of 2022 started ticking and turning few hours ago not anti clock wise but clock wise following the normal astral rule of rotation and movement.

The precision on time here, engulfs  all and by implication it is at the center of all things, from the prophecy we are here to unveil or reveal about world history in what we are now coining in the 21^st century Journalism as a “Prophetic Editorial”. My analysis will solely be insightful and full of spiritual impartation backed by the trend of events unfolding.

“Extraordinary 2022” to be more precise means in other words that all will be exceptional this year starting from Cameroon extending to all other parts of the world.

The common placed core values and the natural rhythm of our times will witness some slide alterations and alternative values.

What do I mean by that in this Prophetic Editorial the cosmic order and astral sensations or arsenals around us will not essentially be tolerant because it has accommodated and contained more than enough.

Meaning we are entering an era as Chinua Achebe puts it “the center can no longer hold” beyond all reasonable human understanding the world in the year 2022 is up to something very serious, strange and difficult most especially as COVID-19 Phase III has resurfaced radically.

Everything about 2022 will be extraordinary, exceptional, amplified and aggravated. The velocity of every situation will increase, crisis will take over an uncontrollable dimensions, new health hazards will broke out, world diplomacy will shrink,  war every where, military take over here and there.

The world will witness the highest number of natural disaster and the highest number of mysterious deaths will be recorded this year. Many Presidents and great leaders of world mystic orders will die this year.

The wind of transition that will pass this year will not be passive as the others. It will be very wild, from the Prophetic it is very clear that the winds will not be very clear and what is not clear is not bright. Meaning a blanket of doom will cover mankind and humanity will only manage to survive with.

The year will fly faster than any other year and will not show mercy. World’s economy will witness a lot of challenges caused by diabolic infrinchment for the next 365 days. That alone will help to destabilize the world's economy.

Nothing will be stable and no condition will be the best or permanent. Stable in the strict sense of abnormalities that will take central stage in every setting.

Coming to Cameroon away from generalities, last year was the year of our Lord for Cameroon, this year Cameroon will survive by the special Grace of Divine Mercy, hope is dashed and hope is against hope.

It is not for nothing that all the relevant things Cameroonians expected to hear from the big Man’s address to the nation was technically avoided and what the regime has as suicide mission belabored. That is why pardon, amnesty and tolerance had no placed. Threats and intimidation crowded his message.

There will be a serious turn around in the climatic and the political winds of the country. Many shall be arrested on  fraudulent accounts and testimonies.

Two great figures will emerge from no where and will have to start rewriting the political history of the country. Dooms days will be very many for Cameroon as shortlisted in the spiritual calendar. Cameroon will serve as an example to other countries.

Authorities, by now as we divulge, are very much aware of what we are saying, many cold hands of death will visit Cameroon. Cameroon’s time has come under the World’s calendar of political agenda setting.

Uproar and some skirmishes will arise but the scene or theatre may not be very good.

Coming to security challenges, security will challenge security. There will be serious flexing of muscles and in that confusion, the ultimate will become the absolute.

Counter offensive actions, manipulation and propaganda has lost value in Cameroon. Cameroon is at the brink of something big and 2022 happens to be the bridge.

The world’s political and diplomatic history will be animated from Cameroon. The future is bleak and the bearings of our times not binding. Let’s Wait and see….  As we Cross Over in prayers.

All Roads Lead to Bamendankwe Palace Under Forchesiri III for the Next Two Weeks

For the next two weeks Bamendankwe village in Bamenda North West Region of Cameroon will be the theatre of a grand cultural display and manifestations in what is termed, celebrating the lives of their two late Fons traditionally.

Fon Forchesiri II passed out in 1989 after ruling for well over 57 years. His successor Forsuh Nforngwa III    took over only to hand over to the present ruler his son in 2020 bouncing back as Forchesiri the III.

By tradition, he is obliged to carry out a number of ritual rites in celebration of the lives of his grand father and father on the thrown of Bamendankwe which the father did not carry out because of health reasons.

As a privilege,  and responsibility, it is incumbent on him to perform such a traditional civic rite which is a call for the two weeks manifestations around the court yard of Bamendankwe Palace.

The ceremony will require all villages (Bali Nyonga, Awing, Mankon, Nkwen, Bambili etc.) having diplomatic traditional ties with Bamendankwe  village and others to take rounds around the court yard of the palace with their population to cry and celebrate the late Fons.

Once that is done, the general notion is that the ancestors have been adorned and the village cleansed.

Coming back to the leadership rule of the new Fon Forchesiri the III, in less than two years on the thrown the ENAM graduate has proven to be an absolute blessing to the Bamendankwe people.

Working in synergy or in collaboration with the  village council and the village cultural and development association headed by Tantoh Emmanuel, the trio have transformed the palace out look into a modern edifice. This can be seen in the gross infrastructural works already done at the entrance of the palace, at the palace arena, in the palace and those ongoing.

His advent, has also brought land disputes and outstanding crisis in the village under control. All thanks to a sound crisis commission to handle land disputes put in place.

Under the current socio political crisis in Bamenda, he has reestablished and reinstated peace in Bamendankwe village, reunited sons and daughters at home and abroad.

Hear him speaking to the Press on the occasion in the palace court yard on the 29^th of December 2021 “ we are extremely thankful to God for the special grace to carry out such a giant ceremony. Through the press I want to thank my people and assure them that, as long as we are alive,  collectively we will make Bamendankwe village a place to be. My greatest wish on the thrown is for peace and reconciliation to reign supreme in the village, no war, no land disputes, no boundary disputes and above all love for one another and development”.

Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu Passes onto Glory at 90

 

Desmond Tutu: South Africa anti-apartheid hero dies aged 90

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said the churchman's death marked "another chapter of bereavement in our nation's farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans".

Archbishop Tutu had helped bequeath "a liberated South Africa," he added.

Tutu was one of the country's best known figures at home and abroad.

A contemporary of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, he was one of the driving forces behind the movement to end the policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority government against the black majority in South Africa from 1948 until 1991.

He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1984 for his role in the struggle to abolish the apartheid system.

Tutu's death comes just weeks after that of South Africa's last apartheid-era president, FW de Klerk, who died at the age of 85.

Archbishop Tutu was a contemporary of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela (r)

President Ramaphosa said Tutu was "an iconic spiritual leader, anti-apartheid activist and global human rights campaigner".

He described him as "a patriot without equal; a leader of principle and pragmatism who gave meaning to the biblical insight that faith without works is dead.

"A man of extraordinary intellect, integrity and invincibility against the forces of apartheid, he was also tender and vulnerable in his compassion for those who had suffered oppression, injustice and violence under apartheid, and oppressed and downtrodden people around the world."

The Nelson Mandela Foundation was among those paying tributes, saying Tutu's "contributions to struggles against injustice, locally and globally, are matched only by the depth of his thinking about the making of liberatory futures for human societies.

"He was an extraordinary human being. A thinker. A leader. A shepherd."

Former US president Barack Obama described him as a mentor and a "moral compass".

"Ordained as a priest in 1960, Tutu went on to serve as bishop of Lesotho from 1976-78, assistant bishop of Johannesburg and rector of a parish in Soweto. He became Bishop of Johannesburg in 1985, and was appointed the first black Archbishop of Cape Town the following year. He used his high-profile role to speak out against oppression of black people in his home country, always saying his motives were religious and not political.

After Mandela became South Africa's first black president in 1994, Tutu was appointed by him to a Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up to investigate crimes committed by both whites and blacks during the apartheid era.

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Merry Christmas and New Year Wishes to All Our Readers

May God, this 2022 Richly and Abundantly Bless you and your family. Our Media Group Prophecy, Spiritual Break through, Good health, Long Life and Prosperity.

As a Commitment, We of WORLD ECHOES MEDIA GROUP Pledge to reconcile the Ordinary with the Extraordinary to make a Difference in Newsroom reporting and Advocacy through Great Humanitarian works and Charity this 2022.

May the God of Senior Arch Bishop Prophet Idaosa, Prophet TB Joshua, Snr Prophet Jeremiah, Arch Bishop Orisejafor, Pst Kenneth Max Copeland, Billy Graham, Senior Prophet Rhenald Bunk, Bishop Mathieu Ashimolowo, Snr. Pst. Chris Oyahkilome, Apst. Johnsen Suleman, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, Dr Paul Enenche, Arch Bishop David Oyedepo, Arch Bishop Enoch Adeboye, Dr. Pst. Okafor, Dr Ibiome, Bishop Creb Dollar, Arch. Bishop Tudor Bismarck, Prophet Sherpard Bushiri, Prophet Hubert, Angel, Apst Joshua Suleman, Arch Bishop Duncon, Prophet Joshua Igingla, Dr Nwako Lazarus, Benny Hins, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, Snr. Pst. Poju Oyemade, Snr. Arch Bishop William Folorunso Kumuyi, Bishop Mike Okonkwo, Pst. Warah Solomon, Joyce Mayer, Bishop TD Jakes, Pst Joel Osteen, Prophet Simon Mokoena,  Prophet DD Allo, and all other great Spiritual Leaders Graciously Bless you as we Cross Over to 2022 like "Great Conquerors"

AFCON Safety and Security Delegation Received in Audience by Cameroon Minister of Territorial Administration

Atanga Nji Paul,  Cameroon's Minister of Territorial Administration receives in audience members of the Safety and Security Commission of the African Football Federation, CAF, ahead of the AFCON TotalEnergies 2021 slated to kick off in the Olembe Stadium, Yaounde, Cameroon on January 9, 2022. The president of the Commission, Major Colonel Djibrilla Hamidou was accompanied to the audience by Dr Christian Emernewa, Chief of Safety and Security, CAF, and Mr Bonnie Mugabe who is Chief of Safety and Security Department of FIFA.

Minister Atanga Nji Paul was assisted in the audience by Mr Mamoudou who is the Inspector General of Territorial Administration in MINAT, who doubles as the President of the Security Commission of COCAN.

The audience reviewed the security and safety dispositions put in place by the government of Cameroon. Apart from the normal security measures, it emerged during the audience that a security master plan for the entire competition has been fine-tuned and adopted. The government has acquired scanners, metal detectors and secured badges. Security officials have gone through refresher courses and will be present at hotels, training grounds, fan zones and during escorts. Equally, simulations exercises have been done to perfect security and ensure efficient management of any eventuality.

Mother Earth in the Grass fields of Cameroon Bleeds Because of Bush Fires and Burning

“Burning to Fight Grass at the Mercy of Nature”

The culture or practice of burning to get rid of Grass in the grass fields of Cameroon is an old time instituted tradition most especially when it comes to farming locally or getting rid of Grass on the hills for fresh ones to shoot for cows.

The exercise entails settings fire on a hill, in a bush or forests by grazers or nomads at the beginning of each dry season, to secure or prepare the hills for fresh hay to shoot for their cows when rains come.

Coming to farming, generally most farmers in the grass fields clear their farms locally by burning. This is done in two ways either by burning down grass from the farm land or burning cleared grass in covered heaps with soil in what we call the slash and burn practice for “Ankaras”.

After burning the common and usual consideration is that, it prepares the soil easily for hoeing, gives good yields and also prepares the hills for green grass to sprout for their cows caring less of the damage.

This burning exercise, it must be noted is done every dry season and you can imagine the damage it causes the soil, the amount of air pollution and the environmental hazards it causes.

Bush fires and burning to farm locally and secure fresh grass for cows this days are so challenging with the ever growing population and the increased pressure on land in the North West.

The pressure is so much such that after the continues burning, the grass field man has resorted to soil additives  (fertilizers or chemicals) which is helping to poison the soil more after burning all micro organisms and substance in the soil.

All of these clandestine attitude of the Bamenda man on the soil and the hills is to catch up with dwindling yields, the increased need for food and hay for cows at the mercy of nature protection and pollution.

At the verge of every dry season in the North West, it is very common placed not to breed in good or pure air because the atmosphere is intoxicated or saturated by smoke coming from bush fire from the hills, Ankara in the farms, or dust from the harsh winds blowing.

This is the time an average Bamenda man suffers from all type of air borne diseases, cardiac arrest and intestinal infections. More onto that the first harvest from the ankaras gives running stomach, just like the first fresh grass from the hills gives stomach complications to the cows.

Nature’s situation in the grass field is one seriously affected by bush fire at all levels. When the Bamenda man burns the hills, the bush is also burnt, games or animals burnt, Mico organisms and decomposed leaves burnt, water sources and catchment exposed to the direct impacts of the sun, hence water shortage as a result of bush fire.

In effect, this act or behavior of the Bemenda man towards nature can be likened to “foolishly burning a forest to catch a squirrel”. Is it not ridiculous and how environmentally friendly is the act?

The future of the environment in the North West from all indication has been mud gauged. Extreme situations are now order of the day all because of rampant bush fires and farming by burning.

Which is exactly one of the direct or indirect contributions to global warming. Rat moles, grass cutters, antelopes, bush pigs, weaver birds, parrots etc are getting extinct.

Time is against the Bamenda man and all must be done as fast as possible to cause perpetrators of bush fire and the crude burning farming practices to stop. Hope some one hear us now to avoid future embarrassment from nature.

“Every day in life is a turning or open page in history. Meaning, every action influences another either positively or negatively”. Time for great reckoning is now. Abusive behavior over the environment and nature must be tamed or we shall have ourselves to blame subsequently for harboring this necessary evil, "farming by burning or clearing grass using bush fire for hay".

Njikwa, Babessi Councils in Grand Style Votes Standing Budget for 2022

Lord Mayor Njikwa Council Akebe Angwa Emmanuel

Councilors of Njikwa and Babessi Councils in a highly represented executive council session on the 14^th day of December 2021 in their respective council areas, have unanimously voted and Adopted their draft budgets for 2022 fiscal year after serious cross examination.

Their respective budgets stands at 433,532,844 for Njikwa council and 887,700,000 for Babessi council.

Battling with the crisis situation in the Region and the great security challenges, these Councils following the council standing orders were able to meet expectations and realized up to 90% of their projects in sound recorded time.

To show how truly committed and dedicated Mayor Akebe Angwa Emmanuel and Mayor Metoh Mbah Joachim are to their council areas and to the development of the whole Municipality.

Lord Mayor Babessi Council Metoh Mbah Joachim

For the past 12 months, they have concentrated efforts in social and humanitarian services, building of bridges and culvert, rehabilitation and equipping of schools and hospitals, building of markets shed, supply of portable water, grading of farm to market roads, award of scholarship and subsidize to farmers etc.

These realizations according to Mayor Akebe Angwa is due to team work and collaboration. Speaking to the press immediately after, he expressed satisfaction in the deliberation and recognized the individual and collective sacrifices made by his councilors to enable Njikwa council to meet it’s expected goals as they work tirelessly for the Meta people and Cameroon.

The Mayor of Babessi Metoh Joachim on his part appreciated councilors and staff for doing all in their best to support and promote council initiatives. Adding that only team work aided them to meet expectation and that 2022 looks promising.

Honorable Egoh Ringo Elite cum CPDM Section President/Business social entrepreneur

Honorable Councilor Egoh Ringo a high profile and dignified elite from Njikwa who doubles as CPDM Section President also speaking at the occasion congratulated the Mayor and councilors for braving all the odds in office all this while. Encouraging them to keep the faith burning as they go lobbying for projects in Yaounde to bring back home for realization.

From the Prophetic, Our Prophetic Message for 2022

“2022 IS THE YEAR OF GREAT CONQUER”

"As Conquerors We shall all Break Grounds, Move Mountains and Break Heaven Loose" .

WORLD ECHOES MEDIA GROUP'S END OF YEAR MESSAGE and NEW YEAR WISHES to it AUDIENCE all over the World

The WORLD ECHOES MEDIA GROUP Family, Have the Honor most Respectful to Extend Her Well and Best Wishes of the Year to all it’s Committed Audience Nationally and Internationally.

The year 2021 was Characterized by multiple challenges but we Braved it all together by the Special Grace of God. Amidst all the Gun Shots, the Serial Killings, and all the kidnappings plus the ever increasing Security Challenges where we are Sieged, (ies North West, crisis hit Region of Anglophone Cameroon, Bamenda). We have with all resilience stood our Grounds to Deliver News in Time Unwavering.

Our General Approach this year to sensitive key News items, was mostly based on the Deepening Anglophone Crisis, Peace Building, global warming and climate change, agenda setting, sustainable Development and governance, advocacy and Benevolence.

This year, we were equally very Instrumental in Rebranding our Journalism Drive following the Increasing needs for Humanitarian Actions by bypassing News room Reporting to be involved in Benevolent and humanitarian actions mostly in the Direction of Assisting and Financing the Activities of Persons Living with Disabilities and the Needy.

This Media call for Social Welfare services and awareness onto Person living with Disabilities ( PLWD), Motivated us to come Up with a Network of Cameroon Benevolent Journalists (NETCAB-Journalists) charged with the Regalian Mission to while Reporting Carry Out Impactful ventures that directly affects humanity positively.

We are by this giant Media Venture Building a Rapid Media Intervention Battalion (RAMIB) of Media Practitioners or actors in Cameroon who will Dedicate their Entire Efforts and resources to impact lives from the very news rooms where they are operating.

Our dear audience as the world Revolves, World ECHOES MEDIA GROUP is Evolving with Changing times and situations. As Vectors of innovation, Peace Building, social security, advocacy and Development, we want to thank all in a Special Way this year 2021 for Patronizing Our Efforts, Mission to Redefine policies and set Standards in this Planetary village which is fast growing into a Global Market with all it requires and entails.

God Saw us through the hard times of 2021, he will surely see us through 2022 irrespective of the growing emergence of global crisis and warming. God is still saying something, Courage Brothers and Sisters! Happy Christmas And New Year Wishes AGOGO to All and Best Regards to your respective families.

The Prophetic Message 

 “2022 IS THE YEAR OF GREAT CONQUER” 

"As Conquerors we shall  all Break Grounds, Move Mountains and Break Heaven Loose" 

An Executive Message of GRATITUDE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WORLD ECHOES MEDIA GROUP,

CEO Tamukong Roland Angong

Editorial! Climate Change and Global Warming a WAR we must Win Now or Face the Consequences Soon

-How Climate Change is Fast Becoming a Major Challenge in Cameroon

-The Ripple change chained effect of climate change and how it is greatly affecting the Global village and planetary winds pose as a threat or crisis

-How mother earth is now Venting anger spitting global warming because of Man's unfriendly actions to the environment

Climate change is fast becoming a growing call for concern, as nature and the natural ordinance that coordinate nature’s force has seriously been altered or distorted. In other words the memory of mankind is affected daily from the multiple growing effect of man's illicit actions onto the earth and the environment .

Multiplied more by inadequate measures put in place by living forces to tame or control the growing harsh influence or pressure of man on the environment.

The environment forms part of human habitat and man lives more on what comes from the soil and what the crops and the plants recycles as air or energy for nature’s subsistence.

Meaning there is a natural Chained network action or bond between the soil, which is land and the air which is nature and man mixed in-between.

Mother earth from a natural point of view functions well or badly based on the type of pressure exercised on her. She functions like human parts of the body coordinated by a central system. Once a part of the body has a problem the body is sick. That is exactly what happens to an evolving planet (the earth, we are talking of).

Changing times and the uncontrolled wind of change have set Standards and agenda that has automatically reverse the calendars of nature’s natural behavior. That is why rains come before or after the anticipated date, ceases at it own time, the sun overhead and scourging, drought, floods, landslides, dust, wild winds very recurrent etc. This is because of man’s wayward behavior on the environment.

Uncontrolled tree felling, burning of bushes, bad waste management, inappropriate ways of disposing chemicals and pollution, are not paying off, to help mother earth to regulate it’s memory.

Population growth and urban pressure plus the Ripple effect of exhausting land and not allowing it to fallow and the use of to much fertilizers stands out as a major threat to nature.

Before there were dense forests and not spotted trees, the earth was well sheltered and not exposed to the direct rays of the sun, there was enough water flow because we had water friendly trees, the soils were fertile animated by micro organisms and decomposed leaves, there were not recurrent land slides or dusty clouds.

Today our soils lack texture because of fire and poisonous soil additives. We have fell all the trees and nature is bare, exposed to the sun and the water sources are drying off, slopes sliding, winds blowing off the outer surface of the earth at the mercy of fellow humans who are then prune to pick up airborne diseases.

We are paying the price of our immoral actions on planet earth and that is why in response there is climate change, global warming, airborne diseases, water shortage, low yields, contaminated food, too much cancer, inorganic things, landslides, flood, droughts etc.

The Cameroon rain forest for example which covers the East, Center and part of the littoral Regions have been exploited to the point of exhaustion by timber merchants. In Bamenda, the Mendankwe hills, the Awing forest and oku rain forest which use to provide coal, wood, Irish potatoes, bush meat,honey products and natural plants to the population of the North West and other parts of the Region have all been rendered bear. Uncontrolled farming and settlement or construction on some certain slopes in the grass fields and the West Region has caused a reasonable amount of death due to land slides. The Northern and extreme North part of the country faces serious drought during the dry season and serious flood during the raining season with flies and mosquitoes.

Coming to forest products we can rarely find a good quantity now in the society because they are almost extinct. We are talking of non timber forest products and games or animals and there is absolute need for conservation inorder to keep our forests alive (the animals play a very important role in reviving the forest).

Tell us how from all of these observations that we will have adequate breeding ground for air, whether there will be sufficient water and the sun will not be scourging or the rains will not delay to come and there will not be climate change and excessive heat.

We have all contributed in plunging mankind in this mess and it is time for speed actions or we will not live to accommodate the dangerous circumstances ahead. The future is bleak.

To curb this or put things under control, nature’s forces need to be mobilized, bringing all on board to form a collective force and on a common font to battle with the challenges..

Every nation, every organization, every individual or family has a role to play. Because everyone feels the pinch when it is cold and everyone feels heat when it is hot.

Community based initiatives for the conservation of natural resources should be encouraged.

The Media during such a precarious moment in the history of mankind, should champion the crusade and the campaign against climate change and global warming through chained and accelerated advocacy reports.

Which is just what our Media Group (WORLD ECHOES MEDIA GROUP) has taken as commitment in the last days of the 21^st century.

The uncontrollable wind of change is responsible for the serious and multiple health problems Cameroonians are experiencing today and other fellow humans in other parts of the world. Reasons why we must all Act Now or live to Cry after.

In strong terms, mankind is facing a serious problem which requires the urgent need of a serious change of behavior and attitude toward land and soil usage.