University Of Buea Cameroon

11Inauguration of American Corner at Buea University (June 7, 2004) ...

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United States Embassy Cameroon: The American Cultural Center celebrates World Press Freedom Day 2005

The American Cultural Center also organized a series of training workshops for journalists and student journalists at the University of Buea; with the Media Club of the West Province; and with journalists in the economic capital, Douala, to discuss the need for Auto Regulation by the media, and the role of the newly created Cameroon Media Council that will act as mediator between journalists and government/civil society. On hand to talk to the over 300 journalists and student journalists on this occasion was ARS Speaker Dr. Eduardo Cue, and Dr. Asheri Kilo, a member of the Cameroon Media Council. Journalists and student journalists at all the different workshops, expressed their appreciation for this initiative taken by the American Cultural Center to clarify them on the functions of the Cameroon Media Council and how they could avoid court proceedings if they auto regulate their profession. [Read More]

United States Embassy Cameroon: Embassy Highlights Archives

June 2004Remarks by U.S. Ambassador George M. Staples at the Dedication of the Cameroon National Assembly American Corner - June 30, 2004 – Yaounde [ Text | Photo Gallery ]Remarks by U.S. Ambassador George M. Staples at the first annual conference of the Association for the Promotion of Library Information Ressources (ASPID) - June 18, 2004 – Yaounde [ Text | Photo Gallery ]Inauguration of American Corner at Buea University - June 7, 2004 [ Photo Gallery ]President Biya Condolences to President Bush for President Reagan's Death - Yaounde, June 7, 2004. [ Text ] ... [Read More]

US Embassy Cameroon: Ambassador's Speeches

Full Text | Photo Gallery Inauguration of First American Corner at the University of Buea. ...

As Director of the HIV/AIDS International training and Research Program at the New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Susan Zolla-Pazner is carrying out a project on the genetic properties of HIV strains in Cameroon and their relevance to vaccine design. Through this program, funded by the United States' National Institutes of Health, Dr. Zolla-Pazner is training health personnel from Cameroon on several aspects of HIV including diagnosis and prevention in rural and urban settings. ... [Read More]

Background Notes: Cameroon

Background Notes: CameroonPA/PCSource: Office of Public Communication, Bureau of Public AffairsDate: Jun 15, 19926/15/92Category: Country DataRegion: Subsaharan AfricaCountry: CameroonSubject: Travel, History, International Organizations, Trade/Economics[TEXT]Official Name: Republic of CameroonPROFILEGeographyArea: 475,439 sq. km. (183,568 sq. mi.); about the size ofCalifornia. Cities: Capital--Yaounde (pop. 850,000). Other majorcities--Douala (1,500,000), Nkongsamba (130,000), Bafoussam(110,000), Garoua (100,000), Bamenda (100,000). Terrain: Northernplains, central and southern plateaus, western highlands andmountains, ... [Read More]

Cameroon

Although there are no legal restrictions on academic freedom, state security informants operate on university campuses.  Many professors believe that adherence to opposition political parties can affect adversely their professional opportunities and advancement.  Free political discussion at the University of Yaounde is dampened by the presence of armed government security forces.  Security forces subjected Dr. Charley Mejame Ejede, a professor of philosophy at the University of Douala who is also national secretary of the Liberal Democratic Alliance political party, to prolonged harassment, presumably due to his political activism in previous years; however, there were no reports of such harassment during the year.  Security forces forcibly dispersed some student protests during the year (see Section 2.b.). ... [Read More]

US Department Of State Post Report

Cameroon has six national universities. The universities are officially bilingual though French is the dominant language at all of them except at Buea which is the country’s sole “AngloSaxon” university and is modeled on the British system. The six institutions are Yaounde I University, Yaounde II University, the University of Douala, the University of Dschang, the University of Ngaoundere, and the University of Buea. ...

There are also several highly regarded special institutions, the Grandes Ecoles. Two are affiliated with Yaounde I University: the Ecole Nationale d’Administration et de Magistrature (which trains much of the ruling elite and the senior technocrats), the Ecole Normale Superieure (which trains educators and administrators). Three of the institutes are affiliated with Yaounde II: the Institut des Relations Internationales du Cameroon (which trains all of the country’s diplomats, as well as diplomats from 10 other African countries), the Ecole Superieure Polytechnique (which specializes in engineering and information technology), and the Ecole Superieure des Sciences et Techniques de l’Information et de la Communication (which trains journalists). Douala University houses the Ecole Normale Superieure de l’Enseignement Technique (which specializes in business management and economics), while Buea University is the home of the Advanced School of Translators and Interpreters. ... [Read More]

Cameroon

Although there are no legal restrictions on academic freedom, state security informants operate on university campuses. Many professors believe that adherence to opposition political parties can affect adversely their professional opportunities and advancement. Free political discussion at the University of Yaounde is dampened by the presence of armed government security forces; however, there were no specific cases of harassment reported during the year. Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports that security forces forcibly disrupted student demonstrations or strikes. ... [Read More]