Journalist Jean-Claude Mbédé creates "Charles Ateba Eyene" prize

This competition is aimed at rewarding budding journalists from secondary education, universities or journalism training centres.

Soon a contest will be launched for journalists "Charles Ateba Eyene Prize", the name of the author and activist of the CPDM who died last year.

The initiator is Cameroonian journalist Jean - Claude Mbédé. He presented this contest as "a prize for school and University Press which would reward budding journalists and those which are new to the profession. It is a double prize that would reward the best article written by a journalist in schools and colleges and the best University Press (best student in terms of academic-practice of schools of journalisms (Esstic and structures of Bts) annually".)

Each of the categories will have an award-winning maximum of 150,000 Cfa francs. In addition, the winners will receive a camera. They could also benefit from a full support of their work and internship over a year. They will also participate in the International Festival of journalism, "the largest world rendezvous of journalists", which is held every year in March and April in Perugia, Italy.