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MTN’s Reduces Call Rates in Cameroon

Chesuh — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:42:35 +0000

The Director General of MTN ‪‎Cameroon, Mr. Karl Olutokun Toriola, has today written a letter to his 11 Million subscribers. In the letter he informs his subscribers that the price for a call is henceforth 30 FCFA per minute or 0.5 FCFA per second. At this rate, MTN Cameroon will have the lowest call rates in the Cameroon Mobile Market and one of the lowest in Africa.

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#MCM With: “I was born a crime” Trevor Noah…

Chesuh — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 11:17:05 +0000

“I was born a crime” is one of Trevor Noah’s jokes about him being a product of an interracial marriage. Born of a black South African mother and a Swiss father in a country that only emerged from the darkness of apartheid two decades ago. Noah’s one man show, The Racist, blends comedy with social comment, leaving audiences all over the world, from Edinburgh, the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa and

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Abschied von Mandela

Chesuh — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:11:08 +0000

Er war Afrikas Freiheitsheld und Südafrikas erster schwarzer Präsident. Für seinen Kampf gegen die Rassentrennung saß Nelson Mandela 27 Jahre lang im Gefängnis. Nun ist der 95-Jährige an den Folgen einer Lungenentzündung gestorben. Der 95-Jährige sei am Donnerstag gestorben, sagte Südafrikas Präsident Jacob Zuma in Johannesburg in einer landesweit übertragenen Fernsehsendung. “Unsere Nation hat ihren größten Sohn verloren”, betonte Zuma. Er sei friedlich dahingeschieden. “Nelson Mandela brachte uns zusammen und

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