Cameroon raises fuel prices

STORY: Cameroon raises fuel prices SHOOTING DATE: Feb. 3, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 4, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:26 LOCATION: Yaounde CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views and gas stations in Yaounde 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): ERIC BANGSI, Taxi driver in Yaounde 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): AYANG DJOWE BRUNO, Motorbike driver in Yaounde 4. various of street views and gas stations in Yaounde STORYLINE: The Cameroonian government on Friday hiked fuel prices, which went into effect from Saturday. According to a statement by Seraphin Magloire Fouda, Secretary General at the Prime Minister's Office, the price of a liter of Super has been increased from 730 XAF (approximately 1.21 U.S. dollars) per liter to 840 XAF (approximately 1.39 U.S. dollars) and gasoline increases from 720 XAF (approximately 1.19 U.S. dollars) per liter to 828 XAF (approximately 1.37 U.S. dollars). Fouda said in a statement Friday night that the price increase was "due to the need to absorb the growing budgetary constraints that the s

Cameroonians struggle to cope with rising food prices

STORY: Cameroonians struggle to cope with rising food prices DATELINE: June 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:05:36 LOCATION: Yaounde CATEGORY: SOCIETY/ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of markets in Cameroon 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): IDELINE KUATE, Housewife 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): MARGUERITE MBAZOA, Housewife 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (French): FRANCOIS TAGUE, Owner of a commodity store 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (French): ANDRE LEUSSEU, Seller of commodity STORYLINE: Rising prices of commodities in the markets of Yaounde and Douala, respectively political and economic capital of Cameroon, have made people's lives more difficult in recent days. Fourty-year-old housewife Ideline Kuate meandered around Sandaga market in Douala in search of what to buy. She earns approximately 50,000 xaf (about 80 U.S. dollars) each month, but it's no longer enough to adequately feed her family of six. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): IDELINE KUATE, Housewife "As a housewife, we can't find a way out, and everything becomes expensive because we are in a country of 'what are