Bertoua

Bertoua is the capital of the Eastern Region of Cameroon and of the Lom-et-Djerem Department. It has a population of 88,462 (at the 2005 Census), and is the traditional home of the Gbaya people. It is home to an airport and Mission Cameroon (in Polish: Misja Kamerun) of Polish Dominican Order.

In 2014, the hospital in Bertoua became known for its work serving the medical needs of refugees from the Central African Republic crossing into Cameroon at border towns such as Gbiti.

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Misja Kamerun

Coordinates: 4°35′N 13°41′E / 4.583°N 13.683°E / 4.583; 13.683

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Culture: Government on a fact finding mission in the East and Adamawa regions

Topix 20 Apr 2018

The government has begun making an inventory of the complete cultural heritage in the East and Adamawa regions of Cameroon. The exercise was launched on 19th April 2018 in Bertoua by the Minister of Culture, Narcisse Mouelle Kombi ... ....

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2018 Fenasco B Games: The Caravan begins competition in Bertoua

Topix 06 Apr 2018

The official launch of this 13th edition took place at the Bertoua ceremonial ground and presided over by the Minister of Basic Education, Yusuf Hadija Alim in the company of ten cabinet Ministers. Over 1240 athletes from the ten regions staged a number of displays representing grassfields, sahel, coastal and the forest cultures of Cameroon ... ....

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Akere Muna consolidates his position in the East and the North of Cameroon

APO 16 Feb 2018

After being reached out to by thousands of supporters who form the NOW movement (www.237NOW.com), Chairman Akere Muna (www.AkereMuna2018.com) has come forward. He chose to spend a week meeting with the movement's leaders and campaigners located in the East, Adamaoua, North and Far North regions ... He celebrated National Youth Day with the young leaders of the town of Bertoua ... The North region was not left out ... Media contact. ... Media files ... ....

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Unrest casts long shadow as Cameroon enters election year

Sowetan Live 30 Jan 2018

Facing tensions on two fronts with bitter unrest in English-speaking regions and Boko Haram jihadist attacks in the north, Cameroon must tackle an additional political challenge this year with strongman Paul Biya seeking re-election as president ... - Squadron of 'Amazons' - ... Recent weeks have seen Biya buff his image by setting up a faculty of medicine in the northern city of Garoua as well as a high school at Bertoua in the east ... ....

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Entrance into ENS Bertoua and the Faculty of Medicine of Garoua attracts many

Topix 12 Jan 2018

Thousands of young Cameroonians aspiring to become teachers or medical practitioners are compiling dossiers for the competitive entrance examination into ENS Bertoua and the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Ngaoundere ... ....

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President Paul Biya creates ENS Bertoua and Faculty of Medicine Garoua

Topix 10 Jan 2018

The President of the Republic signed two separate decrees on Monday, 8th January 2018 creating the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Garoua and the Higher Teacher Training College of Bertoua. According to the decrees the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Garoua and the Higher Teacher Training College of Bertoua are all institutions placed under the auspices of the University of Ngaoundere ... ....

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Fish Farming Project Helps CAR Refugees Feed Themselves

Voa News 14 Dec 2017

The United Nations says humanitarian needs in refugee camps in Cameroon are increasing, exceeding the means available to take care of the growing number of refugees ... She says the activity has kept them going ... Boniface Nyado, head of the World Food Program office in the eastern Cameroon town of Bertoua says the inland fish aquaculture program was started in the area in June 2017 by the World Food Program to attend to the needs of C.A.R....

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Cameroon:Products for End-of Year Feasts - Consumers to Benefit Moderate Rates

All Africa 15 Nov 2017

[Cameroon Tribune] In a bid to help consumers secure various items ahead of end-of-year feasts, Jumia will for 22 days between November 17 and December 18, 2017, put at the disposal of the public products at reduced rates of up to 70 per cent ... Delivery within this period will be free. Many other centres have been created in Bertoua, Ngaoundere, Yagoua, Edea, Bafoussam, Limbe, Buea, Garoua, Maroua and Kousseri to ca ... ....

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Cameroon Arrests Those Wearing Military Uniforms Illegally

Voa News 06 Aug 2017

A dozen military men forcefully open doors in Nyangaza, a popular neighborhood in Bertoua on Cameroon's eastern border with the Central African Republic. Nyangaza is home to hundreds of Central Africans living with host Cameroonian communities ... Even as the military goes around arresting people and seizing the military uniforms, some shop owners still keep them in stock as Moussa Ahminou of the Bertoua traders trade union told VOA....

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Chinese company completes construction of Cameroon’s Lom Pangar Dam

People Daily 11 Jul 2017

Lom Pangar dam. All is now set for the commissioning of the 494 million USD 6 billion cubic-metre capacity reservoir dam in Cameroon’s East Region constructed by a Chinese firm, China Water and Electric Group ... SIGNING OF PAPERS ... GREAT EXPECTATIONS ... Lom Pangar dam. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER. The power plant will be connected through a 105 kilometer 90 kV transmission line to the existing Eastern Network at Bertoua ... FOUNDATION STONE LAID IN 2012....

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FEATURE-Life after fistula: Surgery helps heal stigma in Cameroon

DNA India 10 Jul 2017

By Inna Lazareva. BATOURI, Cameroon, July 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A fter giving birth at the age of 13, whenever Amina Mba wanted to attend prayers in her local mosque, sheer terror would stop her from crossing the threshold ... But not going to the mosque was the least of her problems ... "After the operation, the women are completely transformed," said Joseph Réné Boum, head of the UNFPA office in Bertoua in east Cameroon ... ....

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Life after fistula: Surgery helps heal stigma in Cameroon

This is Money 10 Jul 2017

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Reaching Women's World Cup the ultimate goal for Cameroon's Lonlack

Public Technologies 07 Jul 2017

BERTOUA (FIBA Women's AfroBasket 2017) - Ramses Lonlack has been phenomenal for Cameroon in recent years but she admits there is still something missing to put her national team among the best in the world. Runners-up as hosts of FIBA Women's AfroBasket 2015, Cameroon have become a continental powerhouse in the making ... A wild card team isn't known yet but you can't sleep on any team in this competition,' the Bertoua native warned ... FIBA....

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