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Corporate social investments are the concrete result of the principle of corporate social responsibility which has become a catch phrase for companies of recent, both national and multinational. From telecommunication companies through the petroleum sector, banks and micro- financial institutions, to food processing companies, no one is left out. What is corporate social responsibility and who does what in this guise? How do or can councils benefit from corporate social responsibility? In the following paper, we attempt an answer. An information technology centre here, book donations there, a well to a community here, bridges built in a neighbourhood there, community assembly, worship and sports grounds, all bearing the conspicuous stamp of a given corporation and done with the most intense publicity, and these to the greatest satisfaction of a mayor here or there, since these corporations’ social investments fall in line with the council’s mission. According to some authors, corpor...

Corruption lingers at the core of many of the world's underdeveloped nations, including Cameroon, but we are today a far cry from those days when we used to trade number one position with Nigeria. How we managed it is a different story (may be, we corrupted those who make the classification). But, let us see who plays in the top flight of the corruption perception league.  This article was originally posted on : http://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-02-11/10-most-corrupt-countries-ranked-by-perception?src=usn_fb by  Rachel Dicker  and  Lauren Boyer   Nigeria , the most populated country in Africa, is perceived to be the most corrupt among 60 countries evaluated, according to data from the  2016 Best Countries rankings . The rankings are a characterization of 60 countries based on a survey of more than 16,000 people from four regions.   In the survey, respondents answered how closely they related each of the 60 c...

Shared from GreenPeace Africa:  Click here to see the original article on GreanPeace's website. YAOUNDE, Cameroon, May 26, 2016/APO (African Press Organization)/ -- A Greenpeace Africa (Greenpeace.org)  investigation into illegal logging operations in Cameroon has uncovered a trail of stolen timber leading to Cameroon’s main log exporter Compagnie de Commerce et de Transport (CCT), and has reportedly prompted a government audit into the activities of CCT and its suppliers. That audit should include the supplier La Socamba, subject of a Greenpeace briefing released today. The evidence presented in the briefing, La Socamba: How Cameroon’s Stolen Wood Reaches International Markets, demonstrates how CCT, which supplies timber companies worldwide, including in China and Europe, sources timber from La Socamba, a company engaged in illegal and destructive practices,  including logging several kilometers outside their legal logging title. This new case complements evidence alr...

Says supreme court violated the law In this open letter addressed to Biya, Supreme Court President, Alexis Dipanda Mouelle and the Cameroon public,  Lapiro, who some refer to as the “people’s lawyer”, proves that one does not need to hold a long pencil to read the law. And the Biya regime, which thought they were getting good riddance of one of their most virulent critics by allowing Lapiro to go on exile to the US, are suddenly gnashing their teeth: since his exile, he has multiplied vitriolic attacks against Biya and his administration through the media. Read and find out for yourself. Gentlemen, Let me use this letter to inform you that, within the framework of the appeal I made to the supreme court of Cameroon on my case concerning the hunger riots that occurred over the national territory in February 25 to 29, 2008 and for which I was found guilty of complicity by the Nkongsamba high court in Mungo division (a sentence which was later confirmed by the Littoral court o...

CPDM baron and erstwhile Biya fan Ateba Eyene, has, in a thinly veiled rebellion against his party, tribe and region’s guru, indicted Biya’s governance for inaction against social ills plaguing the country. Although he, like several other progressive minded members of the ruling party, professes unconditional loyalty to the president, reading through his letter will leave you with a very different impression (The translation is mine). Dear Mr President, It is always an immense pleasure to share some reflections likely to draw your attention to some problems that can jeopardise the future of our country with your Excellency. You see, Mr President, during your interview with a western radio more than twenty years ago, you declared that you would like to be remembered as “the one who brought democracy and prosperity to his people.” Who can say better! However, in 2013, it appears that only part of your desires have been realised, this because the overall wealth of the country lies ...

Meditating: How on this sad morning years ago calamity befell a nation. How a manmade night, a permanent eclipse was cast on the commonweal. How a floating island levitated from the S.E. Forests and pinioned over the state. How an era of unprecedented corruption and tribalism was ushered in by the 'peaceful revolution'. How the death warrant of progress, employment and happiness was signed. Oh Lord, to you I recourse! If a people get the government they deserve How have we deserved this who were born Thirty years ago and less? Certainly God is is with us in knowing No one ever deserved to rot under zombie king Eager to portray the semblance of life Than to lead his nation in the strive for wellbeing! I ponder over these and wonder: How is this nightmare going to end? Shall we, lambs of no living God But of a mere mortal, die on the Calvary Of vain labours and on our off-shoot Bequeath a harvest of another Faure or Ali? Or shall we at last see difference i...

Once, while vacationing in Kribi, I was struck by how poor its inhabitants could get. There is virtually no form of cultivation and the local Pygmies, Batangas, Yassa, Mvais and Bulus live only by hunting or fishing highly depleted stocks. An odd kind of seaside resort if I ever saw one. The greatest spectacle, in fact all the spectacle, it had to offer was hungry fishermen with their hungrier wives and children screaming a silent indictment of the “new deal”. Then, I also learned that one of  the “sons of the soil”, Biya’s all powerful General Eno Benae, owned virtually all the shore line on which he had created a luxury hotel that cannot be built with the total of his wages for all his service life, a luxury so incongruous with the misery of Kribians that the behemoth goes empty roomed for years on end...ahahahaha! What did he think, that the world's rich share his spite for his fellow countrymen? Perhaps the gods were  teaching the greedy general a lesson from what the Orac...