Day: June 23, 2023

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DDR Bamenda graduates seven nursery school children

Some seven nursery school pupils have graduated from the Bamenda Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, DDR centre school in the just ended 2022/23 academic year.

The children included, 4 were promoted to primary 1 and 3 others were promoted to nursery 2 in the 2023/24 school year.

The graduation ceremony took place Thursday, June 22, 2023, at the centre in the presence of the Coordinator, Kum Henry, the Divisional Officer for Bamenda II Nicholas Nkongho, parents of the kids and others.

While congratulating the children and teachers, the coordinator challenged their parents to follow the children at home during the holidays to help improve their studies.

“We make sure we have this ceremony every year to graduate the children from pre-nursery to nursery and to primary school,” Kum said.

During the ceremony, Kum also called on separatist fighters still in the bushes to drop their guns and come to the centre. He added that the Bamenda DDR centre is open to all ex-separatists to further their education or elsewhere.

“We are telling all the young people still carrying arms in the bush to drop them and come to the centre so that their children can also benefit from these opportunities,” Kum added.

Amongst the activities carried out during the graduation ceremony were singing and reading rhymes by the children, and award of certificates and prizes.

Prizes were awarded to the best in the French language, best in the English language, best in Mathematics and the overall best.

The DO of Bamenda II used the opportunity to tell ex-separatists at the centre, that the DDR is the best decision they have taken. He also challenged them to use the opportunity to help their friends who are still in the bushes to drop their arms and join them at the centre for better opportunities.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

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Public service minister tells candidates, fraudsters cannot help them pass exams

More than two thousand young Cameroonians according to Minister Joseph Le will be recruited into public service this year.

While launching the public service examinations on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, in Yaounde, the Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reforms, Joseph Le, urged candidates seating in for the competitive entrance exams to stay away from fraudsters brandishing themselves as middlemen capable of helping them pass the exams.

During the press briefing, the minister announced that 2,235 youths will be recruited into the public service in the 2023 financial year and an additional 450 professionals hoping to have career upgrades.

Minister Le, stated that “I urge you to be more vigilant, so as not to give in, to merchants of illusion who vainly promise you success in exchange for money. It’s a pure scam, so don’t give in, to them,”

” You can even denounce them, by contacting MINFOPRA’s anti-corruption unit,” the minister continued

According to him, the examinations and other processes involved in the recruitment process will be extremely strict and transparent with no room for any manipulations.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

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Ethio-Engineering Group, YTO-CAMACO Sign Agreement to Build Tractor Factory

Ethio Engineering Group has signed an agreement that enables it to produce 10,000 tractors annually with the Chinese company YTO-CAMACO.

The agreement was inked by Ethio-Engineering Group CEO Sulieman Dedefo and YTO-CAMACO Project CEO Wang Sun.

Signing the agreement, Sulieman said the MoU would enable to mainly produce tractors for local markets and gradually expand to market in other African countries.

The memorandum has a special place for Ethiopia as it transforms the assembling of tractors to producing them at home, he added.

Producing tractors in Ethiopia would also help to save foreign currency and to create jobs, the CEO noted.

In addition to producing tractors, combiners and other machineries, a sales center will be built.

YTO-CAMACO Company Project CEO Wang said the factory will strengthen the ongoing efforts of Ethiopia to modernize its agriculture.

Furthermore, he stated that it will enable the nation to earn foreign currency by exporting agricultural equipment and machineries to other countries.

The factory is expected to become operational within a year.

YTO-CAMACO (CHINA-AFRICA MACHINERY CORP) is a leading Chinese company in the production of agriculture tractor worldwide, with production capacity of forging, mechanical processing, assembly, and testing.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

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MoU Which Ensure Sustainable Health Diets Signed

A Memorandum of Understanding that envisions ensuring sustainable healthy diets through food systems was signed yesterday between three stakeholders and the Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) initiative.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health, Ethiopian Public Health Institute and SHiFT signed the MoU.

The cooperation and collaboration between the ministries will contribute to the success of Sekota Declaration that aims at curbing chronic malnutrition that result from inadequate nutrient intake over a prolonged period of time.

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Sustainable Healthy diets through Food systems Transformation (SHiFT) Global Director, Inge Brouwer said the MoU will help the signatories to contribute to achieving the national and global Sustainable Development Goals related to food security, nutrition, health, and poverty reduction.

According to her, the MoU will also help SHiFT to support the planning and implementation of food systems in Ethiopia.

Furthermore, it would enable to establish and strengthen the cooperation and collaboration between the parties to strengthen stakeholder engagement in food systems transformation in Ethiopia.

Food systems transformation is the process of changing food systems to deliver better outcomes for people and the planet.

Recall that Ethiopia was an active participant in the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) dialogues. The development of the Ethiopian Food Systems National Roadmap and the prioritization of 22 game changing solutions were direct outputs of that process.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

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PM Meets With Leaders of Institutions, Countries on Sidelines of Paris Summit

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed held discussions with leaders of various institutions and countries on the sidelines of the New International Financial Agreement Summit in Paris.

During his stay in Paris, the premier had discussion with Ajay Bangan, the new President of the World Bank. On the occasion, the prime minster has called on the Bank to strengthen its response to new challenges such as climate change, pandemic, and conflicts. Similarly, in the discussion he had with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, he asked that the organization respond to climate change problems in particular.

In his speech to the summit, Prime Minister Abiy stressed that reforms should be made in the international financial institutions to meet the needs of African countries.

Following the conclusion of the New International Financial Agreement Summit in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron bid farewell to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

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Inclusion of Agro-forestry Systems in Ethiopia’s Green Legacy Initiative Critical to Ensuring Food Security: AGRA

The inclusion of agroforestry systems like fruits in the Green Legacy Initiative is critical in ensuring food security, according to the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).

The Resilience, Climate and Soil Fertility Head at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Tilahun Amede told ENA that the Green Legacy Initiative has multiple objectives.

“One is re-greening to address the concerns of climate change and sequester more carbon. For us in the country, it is a source of fuel wood and food as well as many other services.” he said.

To this end, “I think the Green Legacy, including the inclusion of agro-forestry systems like fruits and multiple purposes, is really critical in ensuring food security.”

But what is more important is managing the planed and making them sustainable; and that cannot be implemented through campaign.

The seedlings “should be owned by the communities and farmers. I think the Green Legacy Initiative should then be cascaded down. It’s a responsibility to the farmers and the communities and the local actors,” he stated.

According to the head, Ethiopia has probably invested in this much more than any other country. But what’s remaining is to make sure that this is sustainable.

“What is now invested in land management is converted to productive use and farmers are getting money and food. The investment is converted to benefit and that is where sustainability comes,” Tilahun elaborated.

The head pointed out that by making sure that the public investment is supported by the private sector, individuals could start to own it and make sure that the benefits are not only shared but the culture transformed.

For him, Ethiopia has started well, but it has a long way to go because the country did a bit in the highlands.

The country has embarked on rehabilitating landscapes, managing the soil through sustainable land management and water management for the last 40 years.

During the last four years alone, Ethiopia has planted 25 billion seedlings under the Green Legacy Initiative, a flagship program initiated by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in June 2019.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

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