The Cameroon Dispatch

Prime Minister Philemon Yang Thursday August 11, before the Regional Director of UN Wowen for West and Central Africa, Diana Ofwona , launched a campaign to get men and boys involved in the promotion of gender equality.  The campaign dubbed, HEFORSHE, according to the Regional Director, is a solidarity movement for gender equality, which uses an online innovative and inclusive platform that recognises men and boys as partners for women’s rights and acknowledges the ways in which the masculine sex benefits from the equality. In her address at the Yaounde Hilton, she said the campaign is for men and boys who believe in safety for women in a harassment-free public space, for fathers who love their daughters, and for CEOs who recognise that an inclusive workforce is the backbone of their success. She revealed that the campaign which aims at collecting 2million online endorsements in Cameroon in one year already has 322 men and boys registered in its data base. The campaign wh...

              TRINT, JCI Official Hand Camp T-Shirt to Youth Minister No fewer than 600 delegates from over 15 countries are expected to take part in the maiden edition of the Global Youth Expression Camp, GLYEX, which will run from August 8 to 13 under the patronage of the minister of youth and civic education Monouna Fotso. The theme of the event is “rethinking strategies of youth participation in development”. The youth camp is organised by the Cameroon office of an international humanitarian NGO, Transformers International commonly know by its acronym, TRINT. In line with the ucoming event, the country director of TRINT, Mai Abeche and the Yaounde chapter president of Junior Chambers International, JCI, Djamo Dahirou were received in audience by the youth and civic education minister on Thursday August 4, 2016. After the audience, the officials told The Guardian Post that it was an opportunity for them to present the initiative to the m...

Nahnyong says her brother’s wife thought her in-laws either hated her or were jealous of her because she had enough money to buy milk for her new born baby and prevent her breast from ‘falling’. “As educated as she was, she snubbed all the advice to breastfeed her kids for at least six months, but when she bore her third child, the breasts she risked her children’s life for, still shrank.” Nahnyong says, adding that "even our grandmothers have always known the importance of breast milk, I don’t know what is happening to this new generation of girls”. While women like Nahnyong’s sister in-law have diverse erroneous justifications for not breastfeeding their children, other women in some communities in Northern Cameroon are obliged to delay breast feeding for their newborns because of cultural beliefs.   Woman breastfeeds her son in Cameroon's North region,2016 In the Bibemi community, it was believed that the first breast milk flow after delivery should be coll...