EDUCATION

  YAOUNDE VOA  | Cameroon is commemorating International Mother Language Day, February 21, by launching what it calls an ambitious program to save its endangered national languages. The central African state has over 260 national languages, but only 40 are taught in schools. Cameroonians speak mostly French and English, which are foreign but …

YAOUNDE VOA  | Cameroon teachers are protesting what they say is growing violence against them by both students and their parents, and the teachers are urging the government to protect them and reinstate corporal punishment. The teachers say the absence of corporal punishment is encouraging abuse of teachers. This week, several attacks on …

Xinhua  | Some 855,000 children are out of school in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon as a result of three years of violence and instability, a UN spokesperson said Tuesday. Two months into the new school year, about 90 percent of the regions’ public primary schools and 77 percent of …

More than 80 per cent of schools in the English-speaking North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon are closed, as the security situation and living conditions continue to deteriorate due to the three-year conflict between the Government and armed groups, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, reported on Friday. Speaking to journalists …

Born Manlikeclix  in Cameroon – Central West Africa, moved to Europe in 2006 where i studied Fashion designing at the Eastern Mediterranean University of North Cyprus. Later moved to London started studies in Cinematography/ photography and finally graduated at the SAE Institute of Berlin – Germany with a first degree …

After a two-day “meet the people” working session last week in Bamenda by the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism, the body has summarized and published a set of grievances tabled by the people. In a press release signed by the Head of the NCPBM, Peter Mafany …

This is an outcome of a meeting between the former indomitable Lions captain and the Minister of Secondary Education, Pauline Nalova Lyonga Egbe on Tuesday at the ninth floor of the Ministry of Secondary Education. Samuel Eto’o who is spending his holidays in Cameroon will use the opportunity to visit …

The HIV/AIDS prevalence among people aged 15-49 in Cameroon went down from 4.3 to 3.4 percent between 2014 and 2017, the Public Health Ministry disclosed on Thursday. During this period, when over five million people underwent tests for the disease, the impact of the pandemic dropped from 39 to 24 …

Cameroonian post graduate student Tsomejio Atsah has won an international Chinese teaching award at Shanghai International Studies University. The Shanghai Normal University student claimed the prize from 18 foreign competitors, who were studying Chinese language in Shanghai and Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces. Atsah was the foreign students’ champion after defeating …

Students writing the 2018 session of the Baccalaureate Examination in some parts of Kupe-Muanenguba Division of the South West Region were reportedly forced to sit for the examination in Moungo Division of the Littoral Region because of security concerns in the area. According to a source who spoke to Journalducameroun.com, …