This Is Cameroon

Your comprehensive guide to everything Cameroon. Tweet us your #Cameroon experiences.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Game of the World Cup so far 🍿

[Rebecca Enonchong @africatechie]

Congratulations to our three Cameroonian startups!
@MyHealthlaneCMR
@BeeCameroon
and https://t.co/MVU5yDoGgL !!!

[Rebecca Enonchong @africatechie]

This is a disgrace. @Nissan needs to answer this and we need to know if other car manufacturers are doing the same. #AfricanLivesMatter

[Rebecca Enonchong @africatechie]

ICYMI, another edition of African leaders being tone deaf:

President Ali Bongo of Gabon, touring Libreville.

Crowd: We're hungry!
President Bongo: Ah, me too!

[Francis Ngannou @francis_ngannou]

AND STILLLLLL!! 🌍🤴🏿 🏆 #ufc270

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@Sandraessor @pikaso_me screenshot this

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Anastasie Obama, a Cameroonian woman who set up her own smoked shrimp business, has been recognized by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) as a Food Hero, for her contribution towards unlocking the potential of selling shellfish locally and abroad.
https://t.co/MIDxfniZ6X

[Kathleen Ndongmo @KathleenNdongmo]

The @POTUS is reportedly nominating Dr @JNkengasong, director of the @AfricaCDC to head @PEPFAR, a $7 billion operation. The Cameroonian virologist would be the first person from the African continent to head the program.

https://t.co/n7DMyHZbrh

[This Is Cameroon @ThisIsCameroon]

Chevening scholar @delphinekonda shares a step by step explanation of what the @CheveningFCDO application timeline for 2021 looks like to help applicants understand the process and important deadlines.

Take a look: https://t.co/mlPDxO9CM1

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Cameroon COVID-19 Emergency Situation Report from 1st July to 30th August 2021 produced by @OchaCameroon in collaboration with the COVID-19 Task Force.

https://t.co/KPaomjfBuC

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Out of a production forecast of 912 bales, state firm CICAM officially produced only 100 bales (about 10% of target) of printed fabric for the World Teacher’s Day to be celebrated next October 5. This 800+ bales gap will leave holes in the firm's treasury.
https://t.co/RQMvurt0F0

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Amazing thread of the most nostalgic of Cameroonian music - oldies but goodies.

Thank you @KathleenNdongmo for these beautiful memories. 👇🏿

[Kathleen Ndongmo @KathleenNdongmo]

#TT237, I am starting this THREAD of "almost forgotten" Cameroonian oldies. Add yours & dedicate to someone here.

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"Fille du Saré" - Foly Dirane 🇨🇲

This is a major throwback for those of us who have aged like fine wine....

Dédicace à @AnniePayep 😃

https://t.co/1tf8FWtMnl

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Cameroon expects to boost its rubber production by 6,667 tons in 2022, thanks to a government program aimed at developing oil palm and rubber tree plantations in the country. https://t.co/OYWIcAv5xW via @GoogleNews

[This Is Cameroon @ThisIsCameroon]

The Indomitable Lions got off to a smooth start in the second round of the African Confederation's World Cup qualifiers.

https://t.co/MSKJD5w1vg

[Kathleen Ndongmo @KathleenNdongmo]

Cameroon's ambassador to Gabon has written to the country's minister of External Relations reporting the theft of a tidy XAF 600M (USD 1M) from her residence in Gabon. She alleges she was robbed by her maid.

Too much to unpack here, & I am tired of govt.

https://t.co/NK6a6VZl31

[UNHCR Cameroon @RefugeesCmr]

Earlier today, the Representative of @RefugeesCmr, @OlivierBeer1 met with #Nigerian🇳🇬 High Commissioner to #Cameroon🇨🇲, H.E Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin. They discussed the voluntary repatriation of Nigerian refugees & the search for durable solutions for the forcibly displaced.

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Infrastructure has many meanings, including the mechanisms of a national economy, yet it also means how the people economically and socially function, like roads and railways.

Cameroon needs infrastructural investment now more than ever.

https://t.co/LOOTHnGjQE

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Over 16 years later, some figures say we are 27 million, some 25 million.

Question: how are these figures reached? There has been no census in 16 years, can we actually trust the numbers?

It seems it's an 'African issue' according to this thread 👇🏿- https://t.co/aKuOw4cCen

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

So many things people keep repeating as facts about Africa that are not, keep intriguing me. The biggest of these misrepresentations is the population of Nigeria. I have said here several times that I don't think we are $200m people. We have not had a population census since 2006

[This Is Cameroon @ThisIsCameroon]

According to @Worldometers live update portal, Cameroon's current population is over 27 million.

The last population census was carried out in 2005. It was the 3rd census in the country since independence in 1960. At that time. the total population was enumerated at 17,463,836.

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Residents keep flocking into precarious neighborhoods in flood zones that cannot be built on in Douala.

This is driven by the lack of space in a city with a population growth rate of over 5.5% per year. The city gets some 110,000 new residents yearly.

https://t.co/C0Eo4jpYAK