The Minister of Finance, Essimi Menye, has told Central Committee Members of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement that the future of Cameroon's economy is not so bright.
He recounted that Finance Ministers from the CEMAC zone met with their European counterparts recently to request for financial assistance to continue with poverty reduction reforms in the sub region; the response was not encouraging. The donors said financial assistance to developing countries would be trimmed.
The latest decision has been influenced by the global credit crunch which is forcing many companies out of business consequently leading to significant job losses in Europe, America and Asia.

The national Youth Council is now set for takeoff. This was the outcome of the General Assembly of Youth Delegations from around the country.
The Delegations, in the presence of government officials, examined a series of drafts presented by the pilot committee which has been set up to elaborate all working documents.

Water experts from West and Central Africa recently met in Yaounde in a bid to seek ways of boosting the water sector in the regions.
The two-day meeting was also aimed at drawing up a programme for the co-financing of water and sanitation projects in West and central Africa.
The meeting took place at the Cameroon programme office of International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN.

A form four student of Cameroon College of Arts and Sciences, CCAS Kumba, drank a poisonous insecticide, “Gamalin 20”, to end her life last 7 January 2009. Njeh Charlotte, of Metta origin was on holidays at Kwa Kwa, a village along the Kumba Ekondo Titi road when she suddenly turned funny and took away her own life. Eyewitnesses recounted that, Njeh, 16, did not return to school as early as others. Even with the parent’s insistence, the young lady stood her grounds, arguing that she must put in more days back at home before negotiating for a return to college.

Religious extremists from a popular radical Hindu activist group have brought a church construction project to a halt. They have set up a tent outside the unfinished building to conduct rituals to their gods.
The extremists descended on the church, which is under construction in Uttar Pradesh, India, on 17 December. They placed vermillion-red flags on the church building, which is a sign that it has been taken over for Hindu use.

On the day that Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family. Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store on Nov. 1 as part of a 20-year tradition he shared with his wife Charlotte. Later that day, the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker suffered a fatal heart attack while working in his yard in Danbury.
On Friday, his widow cashed in one of the tickets: a $10 million winner which, in her grief over her husband’s death, she had put aside and almost discarded before recently checking the numbers.