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11 unusual facts about Buea


2008 Cameroonian anti-government protests

The Post newspaper, located in Buea, claims that the troops "torture and arrest" anyone in possession of allegedly stolen beverages or computer equipment.

Bulbophyllum modicum

All (3) confirmed collections of B. modicum come from the outskirts of the town of Buea.

Charley Roussel Fomen

Fomen earned his first call-up for the U-17 of Cameroon on 27 July 2006, being summoned for a training camp in his hometown of Buea.

Charley Roussel Fomen (born 9 July 1989 in Buea) is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for French club Clermont Foot as a left defender.

Etchu Tabe

At 14, Tabe attended Baldwin High School after moving to Georgia, U.S. from Buea, Cameroon where his father was a professional soccer player.

Isaac Menyoli

Menyoli's stated aim as a competitor was not to win a medal, but to attract media attention (as a Cameroonian skiier) so as to speak up, in front of a global audience, about the prevalence of AIDS in his country, and specifically in his home town of Buea.

Kurt Raaflaub

Kurt Arnold Raaflaub (born February 15, 1941, Buea, Cameroon) is a Swiss historian and Emeritus Professor of Classics and History at Brown University.

Media of Cameroon

There are broadcasting stations at Yaoundé, Douala, Garoua, Buea, Bertoua, Bamenda, and Bafoussam, offering programs in French, English, and many African languages.

Old German government headquarters in Douala

The headquarters were then transferred to Buea, and then back to Douala in 1908 following the eruption of Mount Cameroon.

Sooty Tern

The Field Museum, for example, has a male specimen which was found exhausted on August 2, 1933 on the slopes of Mount Cameroon above Buea, about 1000 m (3,500 ft) ASL, after foul weather had hit the Gulf of Guinea.

University of Buea

University of Buea or Université de Buea is located in Buea in South West Cameroon near Mount Cameroon.


Joseph-Antoine Bell

He started his career in Eclair Douale then Oryx Douala and Prisons Buea beforeUnion Douala in Cameroon, where he spent the years 1975 to 1981.

Naigahelp

In January 2012, Naigahelp has sent a big consignment to the ‘’St. Joan of Arc Higher Institute of Medical Sciences’’, Buea, including new echography equipment.

Sarah Etonge

It was only the second municipal statue constructed in Buea ever, and the first since that for Otto von Bismarck.

Sarah Liengu Etonge (born in Buea, Southwest Province, Cameroon) is a current African mountain running star.