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Her name is Marie Barbara Matagnigni. She is 19 and a Law student in the University of Yaounde II, Soa. She is eloquent, intelligent, soft-spoken and humble. She is bilingual and would speak French and English with much ease. She is the most beautiful girl in Cameroon, at least for the next one year.

Matgnigni was declared Miss Cameroona a couple of days ago at the final of the country's biggest beauty contest, run by COMICA, in association with LUX. The event that took place at the Yaounde Conference Centre was a crowd puller with hundreds of lovers of beauty attending.

As part of her mission as Miss Cameroon, the 1.78 m-tall beauty queen hopes to ensure that garbbage is properly disposed of, to avoid environmental mishaps. "I'll make sure lithering is discouraged as much as possible," she promised.

Matagnigni who hails from the West region will be flown to Paris and back as part of the fallouts of her victory, after bagging One million FCFA.

Her first runner-up, 22-year-old Fariya Oummoul from the Far region went home with 500.000FCFA, while the second runner-up, Esther Atcham, 20, from the Centre was made 250.000FCFA richer.