Senatorial Elections: 28 Contenders Vying for 07 Seats in NW (See full list)

Four political parties are expected to kick start campaigns in the North West Region today ahead of the March 25, 2018 senatorial elections.  This is so following the publication of lists by Elections Cameroon. Campaigns are expected to last for two weeks beginning from today as voting takes place on March 25, 2018 in the seven Divisional headquarters of the North West Region. The four political parties include CPDM, SDF, UDP and NUDP. The list of the ruling CPDM party in the region is headed by Elizabeth Regina Mundi while that of the leading opposition party the SDF is headed by Nkeze Emilia Kalebong. The Chairman of  UDP El Hadj Lawan Bako (Presidential majority) is also head of the list for his party while that of NUDP is headed by Leonard Tumenta.

Here is the full list of candidates and their alternates

Party	Substantive	Alternate
CPDM	Elizabeth Regina Mundi	Tawah Che Crisy
	Nji Fidelis Muh-Ziah	Chuo Cyprian Akwo
	Dingha Ignatius Bayin	Chenyi Theresia Njoumo
	Lafon epse Emma Vergelle	Sevidzem Patricia Bongajum
	Wanlo Chiamua John	Ngong John Budji
	Chebonkeng Martina Wepchu	Musa Adamu Amos Shey
	Atanga Charles Musi	Fomum Victorine Agum
SDF	Nkeze Emilia Kalebong	Kengo Manaseh Acha
	Vanigansen Mochiggle	Cecilia Manka Songwe
	Henry Gamsey Kemende	Ngobe Neng Patricia
	Buh Sule Tegha	Ketchem Gladys Ashie
	Ajuoh Ngam Honore	Presenta Nangeh Nchi
	Kinyang Nyang Georges	Meyeh Eugene Barah
	Kumbongsi Dyx Meten Alim	Sajoh Amidu Yerima
UDP	El Hadj Lawn Bako	Ndong Alpha Samsiboh
	Ansovinus Kwatika Meneng	Mbinkar Roand Nyuydini
	Eyishie Peter Wama	Adamu Aaron Nwabe
	Kumchu Chrysantus	Kum Philomena Chenghe
	Sixtus Orji Ndefru	Kenneth Che Ambe
	Caroline Morikang	Bela Jacob Takon
	Ngangue Eric Nchiminyi	Nyuoh Simon Yong
NUDP	Leonard Tumenta	Dah Angeline Wuyungse
	Rugiatou Mohamadou	Ambe Yuinwe Samuel
	Ngu Festus Nkwenti	Che Henry Ngang
	Peter Kuma Kombain	Neng Prisca Tambia
	Ntobain Victor Konfor	Salifou Ibrahim Yamabuh
	Tanwie Joseph Tangie	Mbafor Charles Pohmahbuh
	Manjo Beatrice Yensa	Bano Issa Sagoh

 

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RSF to Publish Report on the Dangers Journalists Face Covering Women's Rights Around the World

 To celebrate International Women's Day (March 8), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing a report that highlights the dangers journalists face while covering women's rights around the world, and provides recommendations for governments, international organizations, and media outlets to ensure the safety of journalists covering these vital issues. RSF has uncovered that from 2012 to 2017, at least 90 journalists in around 20 different countries were attacked or assaulted when they dared to cover or talk about women’s rights or gender issues. Several months of research shows: 11 of these journalists were murdered, 12 were imprisoned, at least 25 were physically attacked, and at least 40 others were or are still being threatened on social networks.

Gertrude Uwitware (Uganda) On her blog, Gertrude Uwitware defended academic Stella Nyanzi, who reminded Uganda's president of his election promise to distribute sanitary napkins in schools. After she published her post in April 2017, the journalist was kidnapped, her head was shaved, and she was violently beaten. Her torturers then forced her to erase all of her posts on social networks deemed too critical. The police found her around midnight, abandoned but alive in a remote part of her town. Doaa Salah (Egypt) The TV host was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 10,000 Egyptian pounds (about 550 USD) in November 2017 for raising the subject of single mothers, pre-marital sex and sperm donations during her show 'With Dody' broadcast four months earlier on the private channel al-Nahar. Her crime? "Incitement to debauchery." Miroslava Breach (Mexico) On March 23, 2017 the correspondent of La Jornada and Norte de Juarez was murdered in her car in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico while taking her son to school. She took eight bullets for having covered the activities of organized crime in Chihuahua – one of the most violent states in the country – including the femicides in Ciudad Juarez. Gauri Lankesh (India) The editor-in-chief of a secular and feminist weekly, Gauri Lankesh Patrike was killed on September 5, 2017 in Bangalore, southern India. Celebrated for her courage and outspokenness, she was returning home when two men on a motorcycle shot her with two bullets in the chest and one in the head. She was known for her open support of women's rights, her strong stance against the caste system, and her criticism of Hindu conservatism and nationalists.

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South Sudan suspends broadcast of UN-backed radio station

New York, March 9, 2018--South Sudanese authorities should allow the UN-backed station Radio Miraya to continue broadcasting, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The South Sudanese Media Regulatory Authority ordered Radio Miraya to suspend operations because the station had not acquired a broadcasting license, according to a copy of the suspension notice seen by CPJ and a report by the Dutch-backed Radio Tamazuj news outlet.

In the letter, the media authority, which oversees the press, requested that South Sudan's National Communication Authority "withdraw the frequency 101 FM," that was allocated to Radio Miraya. Additionally, the media authority cited Radio Miraya's "persistent non-compliance and refusal to be regulated" under South Sudan's 2013 Media Authority Act as the reason for the station's suspension.

A spokesperson for the South Sudan UN mission (UNMISS), Francisca Mold, told CPJ that Radio Miraya has not stopped broadcasting.

"South Sudanese authorities must ensure Radio Miraya is permitted to operate unhindered," CPJ Deputy Executive Director Robert Mahoney said. "Journalists in South Sudan are too often faced with bureaucratic red tape or other tactics of government intimidation, which are incompatible with efforts to create conditions for sustaining peace."

Mold told CPJ that the UN is "in discussion with the government."

Radio Miraya broadcasts information about UN activities and political programs meant to foster peace in South Sudan, according to a Reuters report.

In late October 2017, South Sudan's media regulator suspended the Union of Journalists of South Sudan, a press association, until it applied for its operating license, according to CPJ research. The union resumed operation after the media authority approved its licensing application, according to media reports, and Sapana Abuyi, director general for information and media compliance of the South Sudanese Media Regulatory Authority.

CPJ has documented persistent government efforts to restrict journalists' ability to operate freely in South Sudan.

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Members of CPDM Senatorial Youth List Congratulate Regina Mundi

Press Release

MEMBERS OF THE CPDM SENATORIAL YOUTH LIST CONGRATULATE

MME REGINA MUNDI ; LIST LEADER FOR CPDM SENATORIAL LIST FOR THE NWR

We the members of the Youth and Women’s List for Senatorial Elections of 2018 sponsored by Dr. Nick Ngwanyam and headed by Dr. Peter Ndonwie, hereby declare as follows:

We sincerely congratulate Madam Regina Mundi for having been selected by the CPDM Party hierarchy to head this list of would be senators from the most important political bastion of the nation. She will thus be the number one senator of the nation.

➢     We fully pledge our support to her because of her motherly care, her ability to listen to youths and the grassroots, her sense of sacrifice to the nation over the years in spite of being seemingly left in the cold.

➢     She cares about youths and their problems. She worries about women and their challenges and hardly sleeps because of the current problems plaguing the nation.

➢     We strongly believe that she epitomizes the voice of the youth as she moves to the decision making assembly. She is God fearing and will truly represent our interests and worries at any decision making level she finds herself at.

➢     We thus give her our unflinching support and call on all councilors no matter their political inclinations to support and vote for her come 25^th March, 2018.

A vote for Mama Regina Mundi is a vote for Peace, Unity, Solidarity, Development and Progress.

Signed

Mme. Lenga Jessicca

Mr. Che Ndaka Nicolas

Dr. Peter Ndonwie

Dr. Nick Ngwanyam, MD           

                                        Done this 9^th day of March, 2018 Bamenda.

 



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Senatorial 2018: Campaigns Begin Tomorrow

After the publication of lists by Elections Cameroon, various political parties are expected to kick start campaigns tomorrow. The 252 candidates who are vying for the 70 seats into the senate are finalizing last minute strategies on how to entice voters. For two weeks, councilors will be cajoled and pampered by the various contenders and as usual money will change hands in the darkest abyss.

Speculative reports say the ruling CPDM may grab the 70 seats due to the fact that they control majority of the councils in all the regions. Jean Nkuete, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPDM is quoted to have told the 10 regional permanent the party today that they are in a competition and the objective is to win.

In the North West region, four political parties, the CPDM, SDF, UDP and NUDP will compete to win the seven seats reserved for the North West Region.  

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Women's Day Celebration: Meet Nkenda Margreta, The Award Winning Oil Pam Farmer

Nkenda Margreta: The Role Model worth celebrating

ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, made it clear in a statement today to mark International that rural women must not be overlooked in policy decisions. We therefore decided to put our spotlight on some of these women who have been feeding towns and cities. And they contribute enormously to food security, agricultural production and the management of natural resources. One of such women is Nkenda Margreta. She is today a household name when it comes to the cultivation and processing of red palm oil in Donga Mantung Division. Nkenda Margreta won the first prize palm oil at the Ebolowa National Agro-pastoral show for palm oil. The fact that she competed and won the prize wasn’t by error but the fruit of her hard work and determination. This distinction at the National Agro Pastoral Show also placed her on the ladder of fame as she was voted Donga Mantung Woman of the Year by readers of The Eye newspaper, Best Farmer by listeners of Savannah Radio Nkambe and again Best All Round Farmer by readers of the Watchdog Tribune.

It is thanks to Nkenda Margreta that President Biya instructed the late GM of CDC to kickstart the Oil Palm Expansion programme in Donga Mantung Division. By winning the national first prize in palm oil, she created the needed awareness that Donga Mantung Division has suitable climatic conditions for the cultivation of oil palms. Meet her in her plantation and you will be filled by the gulp of having met a professional farmer. To her farming is not just a profession but a calling.

However, what makes her different is that she is a very hard working woman and besides being a house wife, she moved above men established artificial barriers to create an oil palm plantation. In Misaje where she hails, women hardly own plantations but she has not only defeated that notion but is inspring other women and young girl in the entire division. She is a practical example of the long established slogan that “what a man can do, a woman can do it better”. With over 10 ha of oil palms, Nkenda Margreta says her dream is to expand her plantation to about 25 hectares. What is however very interesting is that she has a very good knowledge on local processing techniques. Anybody who has had the opportunity to come closer to Madame Nkenda Margreta would agree with me that she is a professional farmer given that she envies nothing from those who work in offices, “my office is my farm”, and she once told us.

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