Tembeng Eli-Anne Anwi

BEd in CST/hist Founder @hobet237 @WomenDeliver 2020 Young Leader @YALIRLCWA Fellow /VIIMMA 2020 Gender Activist #GiftThemMenstrualKits #RapeMyFightOurFight💪🏾

[Tembeng Eli-Anne Anwi @PTelianne]

As a prelude to the #WD2023, I am thrilled to be joining as a member of a vibrant Youth Advisory Group that will meet to exchange ideas in order to develop innovative solutions that improve the quality of #SRHR services for YP #TheCSEEnthusiast

#YouthPartnership #YIELDHub

[Rebecca Enonchong @africatechie]

My mother Nancy Hartwell turns 80 today!! What a blessing it is to be able to celebrate her and still have her in my life.

My father's history is extraordinary and well documented. My mom’s life is extraordinary too, and too few know it. I want to take a moment to honor her, and her remarkable story.

She was born Nancy Jean Hartwell, in West Virginia, and grew up in Tampa, Florida, where she lives again today. At 17 she moved to Washington, DC to study International Relations at American University, and there she met my father, who was completing a Doctorate in International Comparative Law at Georgetown University.

They wanted to marry in Maryland, but for this blond, blue eyed American and this dark handsome Cameroonian, interracial marriage was, and had been, illegal there for over 300 years. Maryland finally repealed the ban and then the US Supreme Court struck down the remaining state bans in Loving v. Virginia. My parents immediately married.

The newly married couple moved to Cameroon and I was born shortly thereafter. Nancy, or Bessem as she soon became known, quickly integrated into her new country and made it her own. She set out to learn local languages, including my father's language, Kenyang. She became fluent in Bassa and Ewondo, since for those she could support her learning with books and tapes. She still speaks them today. She also had to learn French, and since that wasn't enough, she has added many others since, including Arabic, and taught herself to read Egyptian hieroglyphs.

My mom is a world published author. Her best known works are her plays, written under her pen name Jeanne Ngo Libondo, translated into multiple languages and broadcast on the BBC and ORTF in the 1970s: "Joseph, Haven't You Got Your Bicycle Yet?" and "Oh, How Dearly I Detest Thee!" Both are still being staged in theaters across Africa, half a century after she wrote them. She still writes, and has published novels on the theme of human trafficking, such as "Prince Ibrahim's Favorite" and "Harem Slave."

In Cameroon she became one of the first women to hold an executive position, as directeur administratif at Socamac. She had also worked at Guinness and Crevettes du Cameroun.
Then there were her cakes and her cookies! Some here will remember. She might have made your birthday cake. One memorable one was for Ahidjo's daughter's wedding in Garoua, for thousands of people. And then there were those peanut butter cookies of hers, sold at Monoprix in Douala.

When other girls my age were given dolls, my mother gave me books. Not just one at a time. She would literally bring me boxes full of books, in English and in French. She loves to travel and I was lucky enough that she would carry me with her, so that by the time I was twelve I had been to more than fifteen countries.

And her house was never only ours. Someone was always staying, for a week or a term or a decade, and several of those people are simply my family now.

And there is this thing about my Mom. She's like Wikipedia. She will tell you the most random details about history, geography, linguistics. Always learning.

She has never accepted an answer she did not believe. When her friends the Mpondo family were murdered, my mother and I had been amongst the last to have seen them alive. When the official account did not make sense, she did her own investigation, and under Cameroon's Ahidjo regime, it almost cost her her life. It did cost her the country she loved and had made her own. She was forced to move back to the US and start a new life. She then worked for companies like Chemonics before starting her catering business. She is now retired in Tampa, Florida.

There is so much to say about her, it could fill a book. But on this very special day, I wanted to share with you a bit about her story because it deserves to be written, deserves to be shared.

Happy 80th birthday, Mom!

Nancy Jean Hartwell. Nancy Hartwell Enonchong. Bessem Enonchong. Jeanne Ngo Libondo.

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[Ntontu Man 🇨🇲 @tedbradon]

Hello TL, anybody has a contact of a good Neurologist in Cameroon?

Preferably Bafoussam, Yaoundé or Douala …..
RT appreciated

[MMI News @MimiMefoInfo]

#Yaoundé: Jessica, pregnant and due any day, murdered at home — her 3-year-old son fighting for his life

A pregnant woman was brutally killed this morning at her home in Yaoundé. The victim, identified as Jessica, an employee of the Yaoundé City Council (CUY) in the civil registry department, was found dead, her body bearing multiple stab wounds.

What makes this tragedy even more unbearable: her 3-year-old son, who witnessed his mother's final moments, tried to step in front of her attackers. The assailants struck the child violently on the head. He is currently in intensive care. His condition remains unknown at this hour.

Jessica was her mother's only child. She leaves behind a mother who is now utterly alone in the world.

Divorced, she was carrying a baby due any day. Two lives were taken this morning. A third is fighting to survive in a hospital somewhere in this city.

#MMINews

[Raising Voices @RaisingVoices]

💷𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲.
⚧️𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.
🏛️𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻.

These crises are structural.
And what is designed can be dismantled.

#FromCrisisToPower
#IWD2026
#WomenLeadJustice

[Beta Tinz🇨🇲 @beta_tinz]

UK puts emergency brake on study visas for Cameroon!

The UK government has imposed an emergency brake on visas for the first time on nationals from four countries, as Shabana Mahmood accused them of exploiting Britain’s generosity to claim asylum.

Study visas for nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan have been halted, in addition to work visas for Afghans.

The home secretary claimed a growing number of people from these countries were using legal migration routes as a back door to claim asylum in the UK.

Mahmood said on Tuesday: “Britain will always provide refuge to people fleeing war and persecution, but our visa system must not be abused.

“That is why I am taking the unprecedented decision to refuse visas for those nationals seeking to exploit our generosity. I will restore order and control to our borders.”

According to Home Office figures, 39% of the 100,000 people who claimed asylum in 2025 did so after arriving in the UK through a legal migration route such as a study visa.

Asylum applications by students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan represented the most significant part of a rise between 2021 and September 2025, the Home Office said.

The visa ban will be officially introduced via an immigration rules change on Thursday.

Mahmood previously threatened a similar halt to all visas for Angola, Namibia and the Democratic of Congo in November, unless their governments agreed to take people back from the UK.

This led to cooperation agreements with all three countries and people being returned via deportation flights.

Mahmood is expected to lay out measures to toughen up the UK asylum system in a speech on Thursday, having announced that from this week every refugee will be told that their status is temporary and will last just 30 months.

Claimants whose countries are deemed to be safe by the UK government will from now on be expected to return.

Culled from https://t.co/KzlLnH48XA

#BetaTinz #BetaTinzGist

[Africa CDC @AfricaCDC]

Call for applications: Mental Health Leadership & Advocacy Course
Under Africa CDC’s Mental Health Leadership Programme (MHLP)

20 April–1 May 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya
Application deadline: 27 February 2026
Scholarships available.

Apply: https://t.co/0P0wpixBIF

#MentalHealth #AfricaCDC

[Tembeng Eli-Anne Anwi @PTelianne]

The elimination of FGM requires communities to be informed about its risks, girls to be empowered to assert their rights, and collective action to challenge detrimental norms.
#EndFGM
#ProtectTheGirlChild
#GirlsRights
#ZeroTolerance
#TeachThemSRH
#HerCare
#RapeMyFightOurFight

[Un Bami qui Tweete💡 @evrageraud]

AFCON 2025
Quarter Final
Cameroon 🇨🇲-🇲🇦 Morocco
⏰️ 8PM
Starting XI 🇨🇲: Coach David Pagou makes one change, Aboubakar Nagida🇨🇲 comes in for Darlin Yongwa🇨🇲
🏟 Prince Moulay Abdallah Stadium Rabat

[fundsforNGOs @fundsforngos]

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#AfricaFunding #Grants #SocialImpact

[MMI News @MimiMefoInfo]

Thousands flocked to Limbe's Down Beach on New Year's Day to enjoy the sea breeze, socialize, and take part in various leisure activities, including horse riding, boat rides, and photo shoots, as part of the day's celebrations.

Parents were seen escorting their children along the shore, with older siblings holding hands of younger ones as they paraded around the sand. The beach was lined with an array of snacks and treats as vendors seized the opportunity to sell ice cream, suya, fried chicken breast, popcorn, and more.

The Limbe City Council had cleared piles of trash from the beach on New Year’s Eve, helping to restore its clean appearance for the festive crowd.

#MMINews

[La Traductrice Fre/Eng @Asong_MT]

Just like a rapist does not need a reason to rape
He raped because he's a rapist

[Les Lions Indomptables Officiel @LIndomptables]

⚽️🔥 #MATCHDAY

Voici les XI #LionsIndomptables qui débuteront le match !

#MOZAMBIQUE 🇲🇿 🆚 🇨🇲#CAMEROUN

📅 31/12/2025
⏰ 20H
🏟️ Stade Adrar
📍 Agadir - Maroc

We are Lions. We CAN !!!🦁💚❤️💛

#CANTOTALENERGIES2025 | #DAY3 | #MOZCMR| #WEARELIONSWECAN | #GOLIONS | #ALLEZLESLIONS

[CAF @CAF_Online]

Singing, dancing, and ready to roar. 🇨🇲

#TotalEnergiesAFCON2025

[MMI News @MimiMefoInfo]

The Cameroon Association of English-Speaking Journalists (CAMASEJ) Bamenda Chapter has condemned the abduction of journalist and publisher Blasius Charles Nji, who was kidnapped in Bamenda on December 2, 2025 by unidentified armed men suspected to be separatist fighters. Nji, head of The Pilot Newspaper, is the latest media worker targeted in the worsening conflict in Cameroon’s North West Region.

CAMASEJ has called the kidnapping a direct attack on press freedom, stressing that journalists are not participants in the conflict but professionals essential to public information, accountability, and peace. The association is demanding Nji’s immediate and unconditional release, urging all parties—state and non-state—to respect the safety, neutrality, and independence of journalists.

The group also expressed solidarity with Nji’s family and colleagues, warning that such incidents highlight the dangerous environment in which journalists operate in the crisis-affected Anglophone regions. As violence persists, concerns continue to grow about the rapidly deteriorating state of media freedom in Cameroon.

https://t.co/0dm7jFkcrw

[Tembeng Eli-Anne Anwi @PTelianne]

@MireleBesong @LyongaJM Yes green grasshoppers
It’s edible and sweet

[Tembeng Eli-Anne Anwi @PTelianne]

@LyongaJM What if I say you are sick if you eat snails
How does that sound?
Because you don’t consume someone, do not talk down on those who do.
Just follow the adage that says one man’s food is another man’s po!son
Thanks
#TeliCares

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Burkina Faso defeat Germany to reach the Round of 16 🇧🇫

#U17WC

[Matthias Z. Naab @mznaab]

Following from afar as the #AfYWL Fellowship Induction and Leadership Training begins in Kigali. To the 40 young African women joining this 4th cohort, welcome to a journey that will stretch you, connect you and prepare you for impact. The months ahead will test your ideas and your patience, but they will also reveal your strength.

Take every challenge as a lesson, every connection as a bridge, and every assignment as an opportunity to grow your influence through purpose. Lead with empathy, with confidence, and with the belief that your work matters. The future of leadership in Africa depends on those willing to listen, to act and to include others in the process. You are already part of that change.

[FEMNET @FemnetProg]

Coming Soon!!!!
FEMNET’s Feminist Leadership Academy 2025
Reimagining leadership rooted in care, courage, and collective power to end violence against women and girls.

🇿🇦 South Africa | 17–21 November 2025
#ACTtoEndViolence #SRHRDialogues