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By Sah Terence Animbom The deteriorating crisis in the English speaking regions of Cameroon since 2016 has exposed the most vulnerable people of society to so many dangers. More than 500,000 people have been forced to leave their natural habitats to unknown towns and cities of Cameroon where they can feel safer. Even in their new cities, the quest to meet daily needs has challenged so many young girls of English speaking origin in cities like Douala and Yaounde such that they have resorted to tolerating sexual exploitation so long as it puts food in their bellies and shelter over their heads. Those who have summoned the courage to stay in the burnt down villages and deserted towns of the region face one form of sexual and gender based violence from both military and Ambazonian restoration fighters on a daily basis. On Wednesday April 17, 2019, a woman in Muloin, a village in Njinikom sub division of Boyo division was arrested by Ambazonian fighters in Njinikom and conve

Cameroon: 25 Year Old Nyuo John a Bamenda based engineer invents cocoa pod breaking machine By Sah Terence Animbom John demonstrates the use of his machine (photo credit Sah Terence A.) Anyone who has taken part in the slews of meticulous moments of tons of cocoa pod breaking will testify that it is the most ho-hum activity in the cocoa cultivation process. Yes! All that revolves around cocoa cultivation is majorly demanding in terms of time and physical strength born by resistance as in all punctiliousness, a cocoa pod breaker must ensure the safety of the cocoa bean which must not be wounded, else it is destroyed.  Cognizant of all these intricacies in the process, cocoa farmers thus spend wads of cash every farming season in the payment of laborers who very often sustain injuries on their left hands bearing the cocoa pod to be broken as once in a while out of 500 to 1000 pods and sometimes even as minimal as 100 to 200 pods, the sharp machete used for break