Stories From The Honeymoon Suite – Part 1
By Comfort Mussa Ask any lady in Cameroon the question – What is the best gift a woman can give her husband on their wedding night? The response you will likely hear is “Her virginity”. Yes! That’s what our mothers were taught. It’s what I learned. While there is […]
Call For Applications – Higher Institute for Growth in Health Research for Women Researchers
In collaboration with the World Health Organization’s Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, a consortium of women researchers in Cameroon is planning a workshop that aims at supporting and encouraging the growth of early career women scientists through a project supplemented with a mentor-protege program. The workshop […]
IS THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION OF CONTINUOUS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FINALLY HERE?
By Ngobesing Linda Neh WHY THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE MAY NEVER BREAK …The most disheartening part of the story is that when she arrived at the hospital; she said the injury in her eye was sustained as she split wood. Really? Was she splitting the wood on her eyes […]
Cameroon Public health care below expectations
‘Public Health: Heath Care Below Expectations’ this article in Cameroon Tribune the national daily made my day. Cameroon Tribune is considered more or less like the PR paper for the government so things must be very bad at the public hospitals for them to write that “The services rendered in […]
AFRICAN WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT FUND CALLS FOR PROPOSALS
The current call is opened from 18th June to 31st July 2014. Applicants are to send in proposals with innovative but effective strategies to address issues relating to the specified focus areas under the various listed themes: The areas of focus are as follows: Women’s Human Rights (WHR) In the […]
Cameroon , toilet outage and its deadly effects
The Bamenda Main Market (in the city where I live) has approximately 5000 traders occupying about one thousand shops. The traders in the market and the thousands of people who shop there have access to just four toilets provided by the local council. Some inner city apartments don’t have toilets […]
AWDF seeks a Communications Consultant
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), a grant making foundation based in Accra, Ghana requires the services of a Communications Consultant who will work with the Communications Specialist. The Communications Consultant may either work out of AWDF House in Ghana or virtually […]
Time to educate Cameroonian men about women’s rights
This article was originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation on Fri,20 April 2012. Author: George Fominyen Men have to be involved in efforts geared at ending violence against women in Cameroon, the head of an association working with males to end violent and aggressive behavior against women, has said. […]
UN appoints first female commander of peacekeeping force
This article was originally published @ http://www.theguardian.com The first woman has been appointed to command a United Nations peacekeeping force – a Norwegian general who has served in Lebanon, the first Gulf war, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Major General Kristin Lund will replace Chinese Major General Chao Liu on 13 August […]
Speaking for 234 sisters #BringBackTheGirls
#BringBackOurGirls is the desperate plea of parents, friends and well wishers of the over 200 kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigeria. More than two weeks ago, the schoolgirls were abducted from Government Girls Secondary School in the town of Chibok, in Nigeria. Now they’re being sold off as sex slaves for $12 […]