Tansa Musa
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/ 6 May 2007

Cameroon finds Kenya plane, no word of survivors

The wreckage of a Kenya Airways plane that crashed with 114 people on board was found in a swamp a short distance from Cameroon’s Douala airport on Sunday, officials said, but there was no word of any survivors. The Boeing 737-800, carrying passengers from more than 20 countries, vanished on Saturday shortly after taking off from Douala for Nairobi in torrential rain.

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/ 6 May 2007

MTN’s Cameroon head aboard missing plane

The head of cellphone giant MTN in Cameroon, Campbell Utton (51), was among those aboard the Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 that went missing over Cameroon, media reports said on Sunday. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which was carrying 114 people from more than 20 countries, went missing on Saturday after leaving Douala airport.

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/ 5 May 2007

Kenya Airways plane crashes in Cameroon

A Kenya Airways passenger plane bound for Nairobi with 115 people on board crashed in southern Cameroon on Saturday shortly after take-off, the central African country’s state radio said. The radio said the plane had crashed near Niete, south of the Cameroonian port town of Kribi and north of the border with Equatorial Guinea. It gave no further details.

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/ 31 January 2007

China’s Hu starts tour to strengthen Africa ties

Chinese President Hu Jintao began his second African tour in a year on Wednesday to boost ties with a continent that has many of the oil and commodity reserves the Asian giant needs for its ballooning economy. Hu touched down in Cameroon late on Tuesday, the first time a Chinese president has visited the Central African state.