Inter Press Service: “I have come to plant trees — that is why I have left my jacket and tie in Yaoundé” declared Cameroon’s Minister of Forest and Wildlife, Elvis Ngolle Ngolle, as he launched the tree planting at a small village near the town of Kousseri, in the north of the country. In four minutes, the minister and his staff planted a hundred trees as a bulwark against rapidly encroaching desert. About 80,000 trees have been planted in this area — described by Kousseri mayor Mahamat Abdoulkarim as …