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00:00Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea share convergent views on how to strengthen ties in the security,
00:27education, trade, and health sectors at the close of the 9th Cameroon-Equatorial Guinea
00:32Mixed Commission. School bells will begin ringing on September 9, 2024, as private and public primary
00:42and secondary schools will officially open doors on this date and wrap up on July 31, 2025. Get
00:49the reading of the circular in this newscast. Plus, decentralization is wheeling on a fast
00:56lane as government discloses the digitalization of 44 civil status centers to ease access to
01:03documents. The development of these stories and more in the next 30 minutes. Good evening,
01:10dear viewers. Glad to have you on the 730 News with Uncle Lady Raihana Tosali.
01:16Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea have enjoyed decades of bilateral relations that have been
01:21reinforced by the recent holding of the 9th Cameroon-Equatorial Guinea Mixed Commission
01:27in the city of Dibloho, a city that comes over 12 years after the last. This recent
01:32conclave was an opportunity for the brotherly nations to review their friendship ties and
01:38seek ways of enhancing cooperation in diverse domains. Guy Roger Nana has details.
01:43The skies of the city of La Paz, Dibloho Province, Equatorial Guinea,
01:52bore the flags of two brotherly nations as if to say nothing can stop their living together.
02:07The two parties have agreed on a better understanding of each other.
02:11We are here to safeguard the interests of Cameroonians living in Equatorial Guinea,
02:16and I believe that after these discussions, a lot has evolved in a positive direction in
02:21the relationship between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Delegates from the two nations have
02:27reached agreements to partner in quite a number of spheres in the domains of education, culture,
02:33business, and even security. Partnerships which will be enhanced via exchange programs that will
02:40be implemented soon enough. Both delegations insisted that we deliberate on consular and
02:48inter-border security issues. If consular issues are resolved, there will be even less friction
02:54between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. We will continue to sensitize both parties on the ground
02:59so as to stop unnecessary conflicts, especially at the border levels.
03:04This new impetus obtained via the organization of this ninth conclave is expected to be repeated
03:11on a more regular basis with the aim of ensuring that the bond of collaboration between Cameroon
03:18and Equatorial Guinea only gets stronger. And the state of relations between Cameroon and Japan
03:26has come under scrutiny in Yaoundé. This was in the course of two separate audiences granted to
03:32members of the Visiting Japan-Africa Union Parliamentary Friendship League. First,
03:38by the senior deputy speaker of the National Assembly, Honorable Hilarion Etong, and then
03:43the senior vice president of the Senate, Abubakar Abdullahi. Charles Ebune reports.
03:50About 15 days from now, the next Tokyo International Conference on African Development
03:56holds in the Japanese capital, Tokyo. Time for Japanese officials to tour Africa to canvas
04:03for the effective presence of the continent's leadership. This explains the presence in
04:08Cameroon for days now of the top leadership of the Japanese African Union Parliamentary Association.
04:15At the head, this man, Isawa Ichiro, the former Japanese minister for Africa,
04:20meeting here today at the Yaoundé Conference Center with the senior Senate vice president,
04:26Abubakar Abdullahi, who receives him on behalf of the Senate president, Marcel Nyiat Njifengi.
04:33Just before heading to the Senate, the same delegation was at the National Assembly where
04:39they held talks with the senior deputy house speaker, Honorable Hilarion Etong. At both
04:45meetings, they exchanged on the rich parliamentary cooperation between Cameroon and Japan.
04:53Public and private schools in the basic and secondary education sector will officially
04:58open their doors for the 2024-2025 school year on September 9, 2024 and wrap up on July 31,
05:072025. The circular that which announces these dates also details out the different pedagogic
05:15and extracurricular activities that will be carried out in the course of the school year.
05:19Beatrice Ngum read through the circular for the 730 News.
05:24How lessons will be taught and what is expected of teachers vis-a-vis the learners is outlined
05:30in the ministerial circular signed by the minister of basic education and his counterpart of secondary
05:36education. As per the circular, lessons will be dished out in two ways, either by means of
05:41physical presence or through distant learning. Distant learning will entail using the internet,
05:47radio and TV to teach and pamphlets for pupils and students in rural zones where access to the
05:54internet network, radio and TV signals are absent. Scheduled dates for the organization of official
06:01exams are also contained in the circular. As for the pedagogic organization of the three semesters,
06:08nursery school pupils will receive 720 hours of lessons and 1161 hours for primary pupils.
06:16For secondary schools, it will be at least 36 weeks for a minimum of 35 hours of lessons a week
06:24and 1260 hours a year. Classrooms in the nursery, primary and secondary must respect the classroom
06:32ratio as outlined in the circular. School administrations, besides ensuring that
06:39all these guidelines are met, are also expected to see into it that the capacities of teachers
06:45are reinforced through the organization of pedagogic days and above all that students get
06:51not less than 900 hours of lessons during the 2024-2025 school year.
06:58The National Gendarmerie is poised to ensure a heat-free kick-off of the new school year.
07:06Officers of the Fondé territorial group have embarked on regular night controls in travel
07:12agencies and several neighborhoods in Yaoundé to reduce insecurity. Our reporter Romeo Kenyi
07:17was part of the exercise last night and reports.
07:20There will be a team that will be in charge of controlling the vehicle parts,
07:26the identification of people. Instructions for a late-night patrol. Gendarme officers then leave
07:32from van. The neighborhood is often reputed for insecurity. To ensure a heat-free start
07:38of the new school year, the National Gendarmerie has made safety of passengers a priority.
07:44When we are launching the operation, bad guys are shifted from good ones. We have arrested many of
07:52them. We have searched bags, we have been searching also cars to know what they are transporting.
07:59People without IDs with bags in which we discover a lot of prohibited objects. I can say that the
08:09results that we have got is good. The operation has been on for several weeks now.
08:15Bikers are not excluded from the process. I've been going through some traveling agencies at
08:23Olembe, BMRC and so forth. We are on the process. The patrols for now carried out around travel
08:30agencies will soon be extended to many neighborhoods in the nation's capital Yaoundé.
08:36Time to talk health in this newscast. Breast milk, doctors say, supplies all the necessary
08:43nutrients in the proper proportions, building the baby's immune system and protecting them
08:48from infections. This precious liquid for babies flows non-stop until nursing mothers have no excuse
08:56not to let their babies enjoy God's gift. Our health page tonight looks at the benefits of
09:01breast milk. Laurel Bateyea-Achang is our lady on the beat. Hundreds of thousands of babies
09:10worldwide's lives have been saved by breastfeeding. In the last 12 years, the number of infants under
09:17six months of age globally who are exclusively breastfed has increased by more than 10 percent.
09:23This means 48 percent of infants worldwide now benefit from this healthy start in life.
09:30This is the ideal meal for kids, for babies, especially newborn babies,
09:37which is meant produced by nature to meet their specific needs.
09:44Medics say during this critical period of early growth and development, the antibodies in breast
09:50milk protect babies against illness and death, and it is less expensive. For the first six months
09:57breast milk contains everything that the baby needs. The baby doesn't need water,
10:02the baby doesn't need anything else. While this significantly brings us closer to the World
10:07Health Organization target of increasing exclusive breastfeeding to at least 50 percent by 2025,
10:14there are persistent challenges that must be addressed. This has shown that the percentage of
10:19women who, after being diagnosed, they are placed on antiretroviral and the viral load
10:26goes down very low, have very good chances of breastfeeding their babies with no fear.
10:32This World Breastfeeding Week, under the theme Closing the Gap, breastfeeding as a critical
10:37action for reducing health inequity and protecting the rights of mothers and babies to survive and
10:43thrive. And I'm sure you all remember seven-year-old Carlson Ballon, the boy whose hand
10:51was chopped off by Haina at the Vogbeti Botanical Zoo in Yaoundé last May. He has today left for
10:58India for further treatment. The victim, whose right hand got amputated following the incident,
11:03will receive a prosthetic arm in India thanks to the Eran Sivian Abraham Foundation. Cynthia Saptala
11:10reports. It is an excited seven-year-old boy we meet eager to get on a plane for the first time.
11:18A real transformation from the frightened and wounded child some two months ago,
11:23who was attacked by Haina on a visit to the Vogbeti Botanical Zoo and Garden in Yaoundé.
11:30I'm feeling fine. I am happy that I'm going to go down.
11:35Accompanied by his parents, the journey since that horrifying incident, May 27, has been long.
11:42Haina chopped off the child's arm. We immediately rushed the child to the
11:48hospital itself where the child was given a little bit of stability and
11:53we were transferred to an emergency unit where we had the amputation at the level of the right
11:58transfer that hand of the child. From there, we happened to enter into contact with ASAF.
12:04The humanitarian gesture provided by Eran Moss, founder of the Avi Sivian Abraham Foundation,
12:12ASAF Cameroon, consisted of medical care, comprehensive and financial support
12:17estimated at 30 million CFA francs. As we entered in contact with them,
12:22they made us understand that they were going to help us in acquiring a good prosthesis for the
12:28child. When he was going back to school with his two hands already, he would feel like any other
12:32child in class. I'm more than grateful for the opportunity.
12:36Saturday morning, Carlson and his parents headed to the Simhalen Airport for Hyderabad in India
12:43in order to get a prosthetic arm and hopefully regain his classroom and a childhood like any other.
12:52And from the Simhalen International Airport, we land in Bamenda,
12:56northwest region, where about 10 shops have been ravaged by fire that occurred at Fong Street.
13:02The fire according to eyewitnesses started at about 7 p.m. Thursday night in a car spare
13:09parts shop and was finally quenched hours later by the army rescue team. Mary Ann Lantum tells us more.
13:20It is a sad day here at Fong Street in Bamenda 2 municipality.
13:24Tons of goods brought down to debris by fire. The shop owners only have to grab the useful
13:30remnants of what used to be motor spare parts and other goods. The fire reportedly started small
13:37but quickly went out of control. The pressure handling the solar panels, that's where the fire
13:42actually started. Some of the batteries inside the way, when they became heated, they sparked out.
13:48As they, when they sparked out, the fire, the flame started affecting the other shops,
13:53the other accessories. This victim explains that he recently moved into the building and has lost
14:00goods worth 50 million CFA francs. I sell motor spare parts, this is Okazon motor spare parts from Japan
14:06and Belgium. The damage is millions, millions because I parked in here, all my estimate here can be like
14:1350, 60 million. All the engines, all the hubs, all the suspensions, all the both front and back and
14:19everything, it is all gone. While the extent of the total damage is yet to be determined,
14:24it should be recalled that this fire incident comes barely six months after the devastating
14:30fire outbreak at the Bamenda main market that consumed over 300 shops. The Minister of
14:38Decentralization and Local Development has announced an ongoing project to modernize Cameroon's civil
14:43status system. The project, which includes the digitalization of some 44 civil status centers in
14:50its pilot phase, seeks to encourage and facilitate access to civil status documents in Cameroon.
14:56Minister George Elanga-Obama was speaking this Saturday in Douala as he chaired activities
15:01marking the 7th African Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Day and the 13th Decentralization
15:08and Local Development Day. Pongchan Oslaung has details in this report.
15:14Cameroon commemorates the 13th African Decentralization and Local Development Day
15:18and the 7th African Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Day with worries. Statistics from the
15:23National Civil Status Registration Office, BINEC, suggests that some 7 million children in the
15:28country live without birth certificates. 38% of kids under the age of five are not recorded in
15:34the civil status registry while more than 1.4 million school children lack birth certificates
15:40for one reason or the other. It is really a challenge to make sure that in the 10 years coming
15:48all of our kids will be included in the civil status. The Minister of Decentralization and
15:53Local Development, George Elanga-Obama, has challenged stakeholders to put hands on deck
15:57and reverse the tides. The internal displaced persons of the northwest and southwest who came
16:02who never had their documents with them. Most of the documents were born so we're going to the
16:07council so that they can remake another document for them. Minister Elanga-Obama has also thrown
16:14light on current efforts to digitize Cameroon's civil status registration system, a project that
16:21seeks to render it fraud free, more efficient and reliable. We are working to the finalization of
16:27the legal framework and once it is going to be done we are going to move forward. We are
16:33benefiting of the assistance of our international partners. The President of the Republic has
16:40recently offered the sum of 1.5 billion CFA francs to fund the project which is being carried out by
16:45the United Cities and Councils of Cameroon, UCCC. Now we stay in the littoral region where officials
16:53of the National School of Local Administration led by its director Tani Tikubaye have discussed
16:59with the municipal councillors of Douala 5 on the dynamics of support from public authorities
17:05to decentralized local authorities. This was during their visit in Douala where they took
17:10part at the Douala 5 session consecrated to the evaluation of midterm execution of the budget for
17:16the 2024 financial year. Details with Madokwele Beziati. The municipal councillors and officials
17:25of the National School of Administration converged on the Douala 5 town hall to evaluate the
17:31performance of decentralized local authorities in order to put in place a new organizational
17:36framework, a dynamic which Mayor Richard Fuguang affirmed is necessary in the continuous transformation
17:43and development of his area of jurisdiction. The officials also took time to re-evaluate
17:48the partnership and collaboration between both entities. Douala 5 council has as an objective
17:56to improve the performance of its services within the new decentralization environment.
18:04In that regards we are accompanying the Douala 5 council. It was important to establish a
18:10roadmap for the council's activities to the end of the year during the council session to evaluate
18:15the execution of the budget for the 2024 financial year estimated at over 7.7 billion CFA francs.
18:22A budget that the mayor reviewed will be used to considerably improve the daily lives of the
18:27populations of the municipality. The senior divisional officer of the Vosges Ciliac Marine Vogo
18:33present at the meeting appreciated discussions and called on the actors to commit to work
18:39hand in hand in order to positively attain the objectives. 11 billion CFA francs has been set
18:47aside for the construction of an agro-industrial park in Bangwa, Bangante subdivision of the west
18:53region. A sensitization meeting with the local population in view of effectively launching the
18:59project has been carried out by the national coordinator of the network center for growth
19:05sectors Dr. Simon Francoise Yunga Bakalak. Details with Isaac Ngong'o.
19:12The mechanization of agriculture in Cameroon is soon becoming a reality and the Bangwa agro-industrial
19:19park wants to play the front role by building agricultural production and transformation
19:25machinery that will fast-track the import substitution policy. Hence the presence of
19:32the network center for growth sectors in Cameroon in the locality Tuesday. This project is rare.
19:38Our presence here today is just to look if all things are okay. Electricity, water, the roads
19:47and everything. According to the project bearer senator Dr. Michelin Samu, the project when fully
19:54implemented will provide direct employment to over 2,000 Cameroonians and greatly reduce
20:01manual labor for farmers in the value chain. After five years of maturing the project she says
20:08she is confident it will soon see the light of day especially with government support coming
20:14through the network center for growth sectors. The field visit to the project site covering over
20:212,000 hectares of land and exchanges with the local population has brought a fresh impetus to
20:28the project and restored hope to the Bangwa people who were beginning to lose hope of seeing the project
20:35come to pass. On a rather sad note now to the president of the national or rather the inspector
20:44general of the ministry of defense vice admiral Guillaume Ngoa Ngali has been laid to rest in his
20:51native Bikui village in Lolodove subdivision of the south region. The funeral ceremony was marked
20:57by a religious service and military honors paid to the pioneer vice admiral of the Cameroon
21:04navy. The minister delegate at the president's in charge of defense Joseph Betias Somo presided
21:10over the ceremony that saw eulogies described the fallen vice admiral as a devoted and loyal
21:17soldier Christian and family head who lived a life of sacrifice and service.
21:23And the president of the national olympics and sports committee of Cameroon Hamad Kalkaba Malboum
21:31says the death of former calf president Isa Hayatou is a big blow to the entire sports family.
21:37Hamad Kalkaba Malboum was speaking to CRTV today in Paris France on the eve
21:42of the official closing ceremony of the olympic games. Here now is an excerpt of Hamad Kalkaba
21:47Malboum reacting to the death of Isa Hayatou and he was interviewed by Baudouin Sama.
21:53We are losing a very prominent personality of the world of sports not only in Cameroon in Africa but
22:01at the world level but life is like that we come to the life and sometime the almighty
22:09god will call you is calling you back this is the end of the life and I consider that
22:16Isa Hayatou was one of the greatest sport leaders in the world and he leave
22:25he leave us behind but with a very very great sadness he did a lot all of us all of us we know
22:33that even in Cameroon he worked very hard to organize the Cameroon football federation he has
22:40been first secretary general of that federation and then president of the federation and he went
22:47to the african level with the president of CAF 30 years he said he brought our football from
22:57the beginning the base to the highest position
23:01and back home sons and daughters of Balamba have been encouraged to join other groups and forces
23:11to work towards the development of the Mbam community this was announced during the third
23:16general assembly of the Gabelon's grand meeting in Balamba in the BAM Malinobu division of the
23:22central region. Details with Florence Ngomba Nanyung. This is Balamba in the BAM sons and daughters
23:31of the association Gambelus of Grand BAM have come together for a common goal. The state general
23:37assembly of Amikam in Balamba reviews past records take stocks of work on different fronts to improve
23:44well-being and projects in the future. It was very important for us a member of common customs from
23:52Mbam and Inubu and Mbam and Kim divisions to meet today for our yearly general assembly.
24:00We are calling for those who are not yet with us to join so that we can look into some issues
24:09concerning our area and to see how to solve them. The association of 76 active members born on august
24:183 2022 in Kuala seeks to unite all sons and daughters working in the customs administration
24:24for active solidarity. While being urged to unite with other groups and forces to participate
24:31in the development of BAM and Kim and BAM and Inubu fondly known as Grand BAM, members are
24:38also encouraged to improve and consolidate solidarity by holding meetings which will allow
24:43them to know each other better. In religious news members of the christian medical and paramedical
24:51union drawn from the central african republic chad and congo have prayed to god for the
24:57forgiveness of the nation and for peace. The international movement that started in south
25:02africa in 1936 is out to spread the gospel in the world of healthcare. Details with Solange Awasu.
25:11The christian medical and paramedical union came into existence in 1936 in south africa when two
25:19christian brothers visiting their sick father in the hospital realized the spiritual needs of
25:24other patients and caregivers. Till date the association helps to build the kingdom of god
25:30in the world of health. We are an association of christian doctors, nurses, technicians that work
25:38in the domain of health. We provide quality health care at the physical and spiritual level.
25:44We don't go about giving foodstuffs, money, we only provide spiritual aid. With one voice
25:51members of the civil society organization will in three days get to their knees to seek god's
25:57forgiveness and bridge the gap between them and their master. The aim is to gather people from
26:04congo, chad, cameroon, central african republic and the reason is that we want to pray together.
26:12Our aim is to be like a hand of god. The christian medical and paramedical union envisages to inspire
26:19its patients to demonstrate god's love and work in synergy with local churches for the continuous
26:25growth of the association. Our book of the week parent-child relationship by lynjo nelson is a
26:33unique addition to the wall of parenting as it teaches the importance of open communication
26:39between parents and children. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of parenting skills
26:45that should be learned and intentionally applied to build a stronger relationship between the two
26:50parties. Gracious Berny flipped through the pages for the 730 news. The book parents-child relationship
26:58authored by lynjo nelson seeks to educate parents on the need for them to be fully involved
27:04in their children's spiritual physical emotional and social development. Parents are busy i
27:11understand that they go to work to fetch for money and all of that but i believe that a few minutes of
27:17your time with your children will make a lot of sense. We turn not to raise children but we are
27:23rearing children and when i talk of rearing children we give them shelter we give them food
27:28with little or no follow-up. Parents-child relationship is an insightful book with
27:33educative strategies to enable parents raise God-fearing confident happy and dynamic kids.
27:40The very first question that i am asking in this book is how often do parents spend time with their
27:45children? There's the other questions is parenting your top priority because i believe that parenting
27:51is a job on its own. I believe so much that after reading this book parents will better communicate
27:56with their children. The author in the last chapter of his publication calls on parents to
28:02set a positive legacy for their offspring by admitting fraud for this will lead to healthy
28:08relationships within families and communities. And it is with that book that we draw the curtains
28:15on the 7.30 news. Thank you and good night.
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