Our group traversed a country yesterday, heading south from Bamenda to Buea and Limbe on the Atlantic coast. Before we left, our partners in CAMYOSFOP made a moving presentation on ending the small arms proliferation that has caused conflicts in various parts of Africa for decades. This presentation was so powerful that it deserves its own blog post: stand by.

After a weaving drive through the Buea Mountain Range, we landed at the town of Buea, at the foot of Mount Cameroon. This morning, we had a whirlwind of meetings, first at the University of Buea, where we met with students about international partnerships, and then at the Pan African Institute for Development- West Africa center, where we stopped in on a training session of members from every cabinet level office in the Cameroonian government.

After a busy week, we finally got a break this afternoon, as we headed to the beach town of Limbe to jump in from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. We are now relaxed, tan and happy. We head to a caberet this evening before heading back to Yaounde in the morning for our final week of hard work on hard issues.