Cameroon - Football / Preparation CAN 2016: Towards a friendly match Cameroon-France in Limbe

The platform consists of the Technical Commission, government departments and partner administrations met as every week Wednesday, June 29, 2016 in Yaoundé to take stock of preparations for the African Cup of Nations football feminine 2016.

The preparations for the African Championship of women's football nations are going well. Every Wednesday the platform that is the technical committee, government departments and partner governments met in Yaoundé. CRTV-Télé in his diary 20 h 30 of June 29, 2016 reports that these members have agreed to the initiation of two types of activities. Namely, sports and promotional activities of the Cameroon brand. The meeting delivered a detailed program, the synopsis of the stadium. We know that three paintings of several sequences with pedestal "Cameroon miniature marching towards emergence" will appear.

In terms of animation, youth recruitment is effective. They are students. They will form cultural groups. 30 tents erected in Yaounde, Limbe, Buea sheltering stands for promotional areas, concerts and events. Hotels and restaurants have already been identified, machines were commissioned for ticketing, tourist sites have been selected in the Central Region. They will serve in the Cameroon hosts entertainment.

About the program, we know that the inspection of the Confederation of African Football teams will stay in Cameroon from 25 to 31 July 2016. They will assess and record the Organizing Committee of the African Championship of Nations women's football.

The draw meanwhile takes place in early October in Cairo, Egypt. Among the major announcements from the meeting of 29 June 2016, there is this poster France-Cameroon Limbe looming. If both Federations reached agreement, the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon would find in the "Blue" a sparring partner of choice.   

Cameroon - Death of Patrick Ekeng: A Romanian doctor prosecuted for homicide

The Bucharest Procuratorate announced Friday it has launched prosecutions for homicide against a doctor accused of having made "no attempt resuscitation" of Cameroonian footballer.

Victim of a heart attack on May 7 during a match of the Romanian championship, footballer Patrick Ekeng passed from life to death. Six weeks after his burial in Yaoundé Romanian justice has launched prosecutions for homicide against a doctor who was present alongside footballer and has made "no resuscitation attempt."

 According to AFP, Elena Duta, emergency medicine specialist and employee of a private ambulance company, was aboard the vehicle that transported Ekeng to hospital just minutes after her discomfort. Prosecutors said the doctor, "but did not assess the health of the footballer and made no attempt at resuscitation (...), merely put it in charge of the emergency hospital Bucharest ".

"While among the causes of death of Patrick Ekeng, are the heart problems he suffered, by its unjustified inaction, Elena Duta quashed any chance of survival" of the latter, they stressed. According to forensic experts called by the prosecution, over 95% of people with tachyarrhythmia survive cardiac arrest if defibrillation occurs within the first 60 seconds. "The chances of survival are dwindling by 5.5% with every minute that passes," they said.