Bus crash in western Cameroon kills more than 50 passengers
People gather at the scene of a bus crash in Santchou village in western Cameroon Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. At least 53 people have died and 21 others were injured in Cameroon when the bus collided with a truck early Wednesday in a village in the western part of the country, officials said. “A speeding truck illegally transporting fuel ran into the 70-seat bus transporting passengers from the coastal commercial city of Douala to Bafoussam, the capital of Cameroon’s West region,” he said. "A collision between the truck and the bus sparked uncontrollable fire which ravaged the truck, the bus and its occupants.”The truck driver, however, escaped after the crash and Augustine has called for his arrest. In December, 37 people died and 18 others were seriously injured in an accident in the western village of Makenene.
Ancient Cameroon stone carvings recovered at South Florida airport
MIAMI – Customs officers have recovered ancient stone carvings from Cameroon at a South Florida airport, authorities said. U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Tuesday that officers at Miami International Airport intercepted an air cargo shipment containing “Ikom Monoliths.” The stone sculptures had been exported to the U.S. using fraudulent documents, investigators said. “CBP has a critical role in protecting cultural property and preventing illicit trafficking,” said Robert Del Toro, the agency's acting port director at MIA. These laws include export controls and national ownership of cultural property. Click here to subscribe to ClickOrlando.com’s Strange Florida newsletter, delivered every Friday.
Orlando business owner finds purpose in creating bags to help children in Africa
The owner of UNKY bags has found his in his business. UNKY donates supplies to kids in CameroonThere are a hundred and forty million orphans worldwide. While it was very important to get an institutional education, whats more important to Simo is giving back. His company sells handmade bags which are made in Cameroon, Africa and its foundation provides a backpack, filled with school supplies to orphans in the country. UNKY gives back 10% of all revenue made to help give supplies and even food to less fortunate children in the country.
Rare gorillas in Nigeria captured on camera with babies
This photo taken by a camera trap shows a group of Cross River gorillas in the Mbe Mountains of Nigeria on Monday, June 22, 2020. Conservationists have captured the first images of a group of rare Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in the Mbe mountains of Nigeria, proof that the subspecies once feared to be extinct is reproducing amid protection efforts. But Cross River gorillas are notoriously difficult to capture together on camera and no images had captured multiple infants. Cross River gorillas have been threatened for decades primarily by hunting but also by loss of habitat as residents cut down forests to make way for agriculture. About 100 Cross River gorillas have since been recorded in Nigeria's Cross River State and about 200 in Cameroon in a transborder region of about 12,000 square kilometers (4,633 square miles).