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01:00This December 31 speech will boost local production and the economy.
01:06Those are our top stories. I am Ben and Bumagana. This is the 730 News.
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03:15for students as they must work hard to improve on their first term results and follow the
03:20tutors to cover the syllabus for the term. The intense schoolwork this term summons total
03:26support from parents and guardians who must participate in the follow-up of their kids'
03:31work after school. Beatrice Ngum has details in the following report.
03:35Their future begins here, in the classroom. But to learn today and be leaders tomorrow,
03:42parents have a critical role to play in their success.
03:47First of all, they have to build their morals and then they should follow up what the students do.
03:52They shouldn't abandon everything in the hands of the teachers.
03:54Because when your child comes back home, you need to take the books, follow up if the child was actually in school.
04:01Some students actually come to school but they don't enter the class.
04:04And then for those who are actually weak, look for teachers, private teachers to help them.
04:10Juggling between school, household chores and leisure activities is another issue to watch out for.
04:17In that time too, we say from this time after school, when you get home, you eat, you rest your brain.
04:23If there's any activity for you to do, you can do it. Then get back to your books.
04:30You can read for maybe three hours, depending on the class. Have time to study, have time to relax and have time to work.
04:37Aware of the stakes, most parents say once it's school time, they keep an eye on all pedagogic and leisure activities.
04:46When school starts, they limit the television, telephone, iPad, all those things.
04:53I draw a timetable and also advise them on what to do.
04:58We try to guide them to do the homework because by doing the homework themselves, they learn also.
05:05And it sticks very well in their heads.
05:08Parents like teachers agree, children can get better results if the teacher-parent relay is continued.
05:15Let's also go back to Douala this time to see how the students went back to school and how busy it has been this very first day
05:26as teachers and students try to cover the syllabus of the term.
05:31Let's get to our reporters in Sierra TV Littoral.
05:34The festive period is over.
05:39Time for all pupils and students to reset their minds on their studies during the second term, known to be the shortest and most decisive.
05:47This was among many recommendations given to students of the government high school just during the assembly by its administration,
05:54which believes the recipes for success are hard work and discipline.
05:58With a not-so-outstanding first term, there is need to organize catch-up classes.
06:03We have asked teachers to multiply lessons and stress on those the kids did not understand.
06:14Elsewhere at the government technical school Kumasi, the best-performing students would be rewarded.
06:19We encourage and share with students, and at the end of the year, give them prizes.
06:26Meanwhile, certain private institutions have offered some bonuses to teachers to encourage them.
06:33The founder motivated all the teachers, and we are confident we will stand out in Douala One.
06:40Given that the second term would be characterized by many activities,
06:43among which the bilingualism and youth weeks, focus should be the watchword.
06:49Let's take a tour of some towns in the country, precisely Garawa in the north region,
06:54Betua in the east region, and Bafusam in the west region,
06:57to assess the effectiveness of back-to-school in these areas.
07:01Here is the report.
07:02At the government bilingual high school of Betua on the first day of the second term,
07:10the principal did not show his words, especially when addressing those in examination classes.
07:16I started by telling the students that the first term wasn't the best in terms of results,
07:21and that they have this second term to do better than they did in the first term.
07:25Some students say the Christmas break did not distract them from the objective,
07:31which is to succeed in the final exam.
07:34I'm very ready to work hard.
07:36Students who showed up late at the Licef Scientifique of Betua were severely punished before being sent to class.
07:43Going round a number of primary and secondary schools in the north region,
07:48the only phrase one might be quick to utter is that teachers and students are back to business.
07:55A studious atmosphere prevails, and some students in examination classes are determined to work even harder.
08:03Around 96% of the schools are present.
08:08Because it's a term that we don't present fees, so we need to concentrate on this term.
08:13The stakes are high for the north region in particular,
08:17not only for the fact that it is a priority education zone,
08:21but mostly because all is being done to improve global performance,
08:26in order to wipe off the poor mark recorded last academic year.
08:32The streets were busy and the school gates wired open on the first day of the second term of the 2024-2025 academic year in Bavosam.
08:41Teachers and learners were all engaged in the teaching and learning process.
08:45This morning in Form 5, I've been looking at the different types of sentences we have in English.
08:52When we are dealing with MCQO, they get confused with punctuations that they are supposed to use in the sentences.
08:58We began with French, and now we are doing physics.
09:02School officials have found the term is very busy, and so learners must be disciplined and focused.
09:08They should be very concentrated to avoid end discipline, read the notes every day.
09:14Those who came late were locked outside the school gates, while others were involved with physical education.
09:22Now, on to one of our lead stories.
09:24The annual revision exercise of electoral registers for 2025 has been launched in Yaoundé.
09:31During the launching exercise, the Director General of Elections, Cameroon, Dr. Eric Esuse,
09:36announced that the objective is to take the total number of eligible voters on electoral registers to more than 8 million.
09:43Ibneza Akanga attended the ceremony, and now reports.
09:48It is on with the annual revision exercise of electoral registers for 2025.
09:54The exercise was launched by the Director General of Elections in Bankomu, Mefu and Akona Division of the Centre Region.
10:01Dr. Eric Esuse supervised the enrollment of the first potential voters in electoral registers.
10:08He said that this year's revision exercise is peculiar in that it will end immediately the head of state
10:15signs the decree to convene the electorate to the polls for the presidential election.
10:21So he urged potential voters who have not yet registered to hurry up and register,
10:26because time is not on their side.
10:29What we want to do now is to encourage, particularly the youth,
10:33because we want that the youth continue to be registered.
10:37Also, we want that for this year, this year of the election,
10:40we want to have many persons to be registered.
10:43The Director General announced that the objective for this year's revision exercise
10:49is to take the total number of eligible voters in electoral registers to more than 8 million.
10:55For now, the number is 7,845,622.
11:01Political parties in the Litoral Region have begun strategizing
11:06on how to get many of their supporters registered on electoral lists
11:11ahead of the 2025 presidential election.
11:14Both political parties and members of the civil society are working on strategies
11:18to get a majority of their supporters registered on the electoral lists.
11:22Scala Maloque spoke to some of the actors and put together the following reports.
11:26Political parties and civil society organizations want to see many Cameroonians take part
11:33in the electoral processes, reason why most of them have devised strategies to achieve these.
11:39We have been on the field for about two months.
11:42We didn't wait for the registration window to be opened.
11:45We began things.
11:47So today, we are only waiting for LECAM to publish their program.
11:50We have already done a pre-campaign by going into the neighborhoods
11:53to invite youths and parents to have their national identity cards by them
11:58because that's the main document needed for registration.
12:01We have also many youths in our party ready to accompany us on the field.
12:07Actors of the Social Democratic Front, the SDF party, are not left out.
12:11In the literary version, we do all our possible to ensure that the pool of LECAM is very occupied
12:22by the SDF military.
12:24Assure that LECAM is occupied by the SDF representative.
12:30Meanwhile, heads of civil society organizations like Philippe Nanga,
12:34coordinator of Elmon Daveni, say they already have teams on the field to identify
12:39if there are some problems being encountered.
12:42They intend to send about 300 proximity animators on the field
12:46in all the 10 regions from next month, with 100 more in the little world region.
12:52Across the world and around Cameroon, you're watching the 7.30 news on the CRTV.
12:57In 2023, the Integrated Agro-Pastoral and Fisheries Import Substitution Plan,
13:02PISA, 2024-2026, was promulgated by the head of state president, Paul Beer.
13:07The general objective of the plan was to contribute to the reduction of the trade deficit
13:12by substituting imported products by local production to the development of the private sector
13:18in the agro-pastoral and fishery sectors.
13:21Cynthia Saptala tells us more.
13:23The Integrated Agro-Pastoral and Fisheries Import Substitution Plan for 2024-2026
13:32prioritized the development of seven selected products that weighed on the trade balance.
13:39In order to reduce importation of rice, corn, wheat, fish by 40%,
13:44three priority plan of actions were defined in the three-year plan.
13:49One, develop the hydro-agricultural, pastoral and fishery areas.
13:54Two, improve on production and processing.
13:57And three, access to research, training and funding.
14:01For example, to revitalize the wheat sector, which today remains well below the 900,000 tons needed to meet the national demand,
14:11the Integrated Plan talks of increasing local production of flour so as to substitute in fish trees.
14:18We have created what you call the value chain to facilitate the production, the transformation and the consumption of this.
14:26Other objectives, increase maize production from 2.7 million tons to 3.6 million tons in 2026,
14:36increase milk production by 351,000 tons and fish by 600,000 tons by 2026 by addressing the challenges in each sector.
14:47Put available lands to the economic operators, farmers, fix machine and infrastructure
14:55to allow people to reach to the different production areas to facilitate the access to credit.
15:04The overall cost, more than $1,371 billion to successful direct Cameroon's economy towards an inward-looking trade strategy.
15:15At the close of the year 2023, rice and wheat amounted to more than 90% of the total cereals import.
15:25Though the figure registers a drop from that of 2022,
15:29the huge quantity imported is a strong reminder to step up local production.
15:33To attain this objective, farmers and stakeholders must organize the various value chains
15:38and improve access to high-yield imports.
15:41Clarice Areitakan reports.
15:45Out of the many rice varieties on the markets,
15:48finding a local brand is a one out of a 20 chance, mostly.
15:52And when it does exist, consumers complain about the cost.
15:55The same goes for wheat.
15:56Growing the domestic production of both crops is essential.
16:00Their imports totaled more than 95% of cereals in 2023.
16:03The central plane project targets 464.5 thousand ton rice increase by 2026.
16:30The success of the program is expected to reduce imports by 70%.
16:34The wheat's objective is 303.6 thousand tons by the same period.
16:38People have to be trained.
16:39People have to receive subventions.
16:43And they have to make sure that when they send the subvention,
16:45it's to go specially to the person that deserves it.
16:48To organize the sector.
16:49To make sure that people that are producing are producing.
16:52The other way, people that are distributing are distributing.
16:55Rice and wheat remain high in demand products annually.
16:58Their impact on the trade balance is yet to have a positive touch.
17:02The private sector have the facility to mobilize funding.
17:07So we are trying to attract them in agriculture.
17:12And the first step is to give them access to land.
17:18Where is the wheat more produced?
17:22Where is the climate more favorable to produce that wheat?
17:26So it is on that we have to work on.
17:27What is the quantity that we are ready to absorb?
17:31And what is the type of population that needs to consume it?
17:34Meeting production ambitions thus requires aligning political will to local realities and potential.
17:40Now, over a hundred branded made-in-Cameroon products fill up exhibition stands.
17:47But some stay longer on the shelves as customers still prefer foreign products.
17:52Economists say, inasmuch as the purchasing power determines the buying propensity,
17:57there is a need to promote cultural tourism within the country.
18:01And according to these experts,
18:02this will push Cameroonians to eat and dress Cameroonian so as to boost local production.
18:08Mkwale Prince Willard Duma tells us more.
18:11Cameroon, right here in Cameroon, we can do many things.
18:1513 billion CFR francs allocated for import substitution with a country boasting over a hundred branded products.
18:26It's not enough, we are told.
18:27The Cameroonians, the young girls in particular,
18:32they have a tendency to prefer goods that are imported.
18:37When she goes to a supermarket, she wants to buy orange juice that comes from South Africa.
18:43She wants to buy fresh cow meat that comes from France.
18:49Even tomatoes.
18:50We need to launch a profound advocacy, a cultural advocacy for cultural change.
18:57There must be a motivation that takes Made in Cameroon offers from food, cosmetics,
19:03through the wine and pharmaceutical industries into Cameroonian households.
19:08If I take a country like Kongur-Bazaville,
19:11nine girls out of ten in Bazaville, they address an African loss.
19:16But here in Cameroon, it's exactly the opposite.
19:20There is a problem in spite of price.
19:23How much does it cost for a young girl to dress up with locally made material?
19:30You must boost the production so that when the quantity of goods that are produced locally,
19:37when the quantity increases, the cost per unit will fall.
19:41While producers target cross-border markets to make gains,
19:45stepping up home consumption equals promoting Cameroonian.
19:50Quite pertinence there, Mukwele Prince Willa Duma.
19:53Now, in his end-of-year address, the head of state, Paul Beer,
19:56highlighted the importance of ensuring food sovereignty
19:59by effectively implementing import substitution agenda.
20:03Here is an excerpt of what the president said on the 31st of December.
20:06This trend is expected to continue in 2025 to stand at 4%.
20:15To reduce our trade balance deficit and ensure food sovereignty,
20:25the integrated agro-pastoral and fisheries import substitution plan,
20:34which I announced last year, is starting to yield tangible outcomes.
20:41Let's talk something else now.
20:45Officials of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security have begun brainstorming
20:49on priority areas for 2025.
20:52The major concern of the conference are on the promotion of social justice,
20:57decent work, and the improvement of governance and institutional support
21:01to labor and social security sub-sectors.
21:04Minister Gregoire Ouna is chairing the deliberations at the Enam Campus in Yaonde.
21:08Emanuela Vermeer reports.
21:12It's been a 2024 major achievement in the Ministry of Labor and Social Security
21:18marked by the easing of the process for the registration and payment
21:21of social security contributions, the ratification of multinational
21:25social security conventions, and the provision of incentives to companies
21:30to set up labor, medical services, and more.
21:33Officials of the Ministry from the Central and Devolve Services
21:37are gathered in Yaonde to reflect on how to consolidate these achievements
21:41and draw up the roadmap for 2025.
21:45We are in charge of elaborating the policies that have to do with labor and social security,
21:50ensuring that more collective agreements are signed,
21:53ensuring also that we ratify the various international conventions
21:56that have to do with decent work in Cameroon.
21:58We also have to ensure the health and safety of workers.
22:01Minister Gregoire Ouna sees the era where civil servants only ticked boxes
22:05and put in bare minimum, sometimes in disregard to regulations, is over.
22:11He has tasked those under him to be solution providers.
22:14Having social dialogue with social partners, trying to preempt problems that are oncoming.
22:22One of the most important things for workers is to ensure that they have that social protection.
22:26You cannot be working and if you're having an accident,
22:27you're not sure where you're going to go to,
22:29you need to have your pension when you've earned your career.
22:33The annual conference ends Tuesday with a clear roadmap for the ministry in 2025.
22:40The Ministry of Youth Affairs and the International Organization for Migration, IOM,
22:45have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to provide guidance and opportunities
22:49to returning migrants and Cameroonian youths in the diaspora.
22:52Delphine Coancho attended a sign-in ceremony in the Yandertidame and brought back this report.
22:59Cameroon is currently experiencing an influx of returning migrants
23:03with approximately 7,000 individuals making the journey back to their home country.
23:09This return carries a range of emotions.
23:12For some, it marks the end of perilous journeys in search of better opportunities,
23:16while for others, it offers a fresh start, free from violence and conflict.
23:22To aid in the reintegration of these returnees,
23:25the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Civic Education has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding
23:30with the International Organization for Migration.
23:34This partnership aims to establish a comprehensive support system
23:37that will help returnees rebuild their lives and contribute positively to their communities.
23:43Many of the youth moving irregularly are doing because of lack of jobs,
23:48lack of opportunities, lack of trust and lack of hope.
23:51And we believe that by being a UN agency to promote again sensibilization against irregular migration.
23:58The signing of this MOU represents a key milestone in Cameroon's ongoing efforts
24:03to address the complex challenges of migration
24:06and to provide vital assistance to its returning citizens.
24:10As the dry season in Cameroon is getting intense,
24:15many more persons are suffering from cough, dry nose, dehydration and other seasonal sicknesses.
24:21Medical personnel are proposing several prevention measures
24:24to stop sicknesses caused by dry winds, heat and dust.
24:29Juliana Befalo edits the report for the 730 News.
24:32Every day, at least one patient visits a health center complaining of a seasonal disease.
24:39At the Hospital Apice de Jongolo, this patient starts treatment for a respiratory tract infection.
24:46Every day I'm feeling a cough and fever.
24:49That's why I'm just coming to this hospital to see the doctor.
24:52Besides respiratory issues, several other seasonal illnesses prevail.
24:56We have been finding patients with pulmonary diseases, high diseases,
25:03like conjunctivitis, patients with gastroenteritis.
25:08Patients complain about cough.
25:11They have the cough difficulty to breathe.
25:13According to medical experts, preventive measures are key to covering the spread of these infections.
25:19We have to avoid wearing light clothes, drink enough water during this dry season,
25:26avoid coughing in the places where many people are.
25:30I'm talking of the cases of tuberculosis.
25:33We have to make sure that what we eat respects hygienic conditions.
25:39The dry season, characterized by dusty and dry winds,
25:42creates an ideal breeding ground for many of these diseases.
25:46In case of contamination, medical professionals advise seeking immediate attention at the nearest health care unit.
25:54The Cameroon Paralympic Committee has announced a launch of parasports program for 2025
26:01from disability to sportability.
26:05The Cameroon Paralympic Committee met in its general assembly today in Yaonde
26:09to plan activities for 2025 and come out with a clear road map.
26:13Wilson-Mengole reports.
26:16The general assembly of the Cameroon Paralympic Committee
26:19was aimed at coming up with a road map for 2025,
26:24examine and adopt the budget for 2025,
26:28intensify the activities of the commission in the regions
26:31through the launch of a parasports program dubbed
26:34from disability to sportability.
26:37The general assembly will close the year 2024.
26:45They will give their appreciation about what has been done during that year.
26:53And tomorrow, the 7th of January,
26:57the general assembly will close what is called the Paralympiad 21-24.
27:04The committee will equally want to bring its activities to the lamplight
27:09and organize regular capacity-building seminars on Paralympic sports.
27:34Please know that goals for across the province and musi' hair this year.
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