Cameroon
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 06:13:52 GMTWhat the New African Union Leaders Should Prioritise in 2025
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- The African Union chose its new leadership, and now faces several peace and security challenges which the International Crisis Group (ICG) described as "forbidding". This is an extract of ICG's briefing points to eight areas ...
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:57:39 GMTCameroon's Massacre Victims Wait Justice Five Years On
[HRW] Stalled Trial a Case Study in Impunity
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:15:36 GMTGreenpeace Africa Calls On the Govt to Cancel the Decree Creating Ma Mbed Mbed Park
[Greenpeace] In 2020, the Cameroonian government issued a decree establishing Ma Mbed Mbed Park, covering an area of more than 12,000 hectares. This decree has sparked reactions from local communities, who have taken to the streets demanding its canc...
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:51:22 GMTBig Priorities for the African Union in 2025 - Zooming in On Sudan, DRC and Cameroon
[Crisis Group] In this online event Crisis Group experts discuss the eight priorities that Crisis Group has identified for the African Union in the year ahead and specifically zoom in on what it can do to help solve the crises in Sudan, DRC and Camer...
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:45:22 GMTCameroon's Striking Workers Win Against French Sugar Giant Despite 'Bloody Repression'
[People's Dispatch] Longstanding labor unrest over low wages, union suppression, and unsafe work conditions at Cameroon's largest sugar company, owned by a French agro-giant, erupted into a strike on January 26 over delayed payments.
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:19:16 GMTSébastien Siani - 'Winning an Afcon Is the Holy Grail'
[CAF] A key man in coach Hugo Broos' set-up during Cameroon's victory at the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations, Gabon 2017, midfielder Sébastien Siani was one of the main architects of that success.
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:23:33 GMTKuhn - New Record Justifies Hard Work
[New Era] Coenraad Kuhn set a national shotput record during the All-Africa Games in Cameroon, breaking his record and catapulting a new one for himself.
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:57:14 GMTExpanding Cameroon's Successful Green Militarisation Strategy to Protect Elephants
[ISS] The global demand for ivory is driving heavily armed poachers from Chad and Sudan into Cameroon's Bouba Ndjida National Park.
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:57:05 GMTAfDB and WFP Support Families Affected By Flooding in Cameroon's Far North
[WFP] YAOUNDE -The Government of Cameroon and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcome a US$ 1 million contribution from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support 42,000 people affected by the 2024 floods in Cameroon's Far North reg...
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:10:35 GMTJapan and WFP Join Forces to Strengthen Food Security of Vulnerable Populations in Cameroon
[WFP] Yaounde -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a Japanese Yen 200 million (approx. US$ 1.27 million) contribution from the Government of Japan to provide lifesaving food assistance to crisis-affected people across six regions...
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 04:37:13 GMTCameroon Could Do With Some Foreign Help to Solve Anglophone Crisis - but the State Doesn't Want It
[The Conversation Africa] What began in late 2016 as a peaceful protest by lawyers and teachers in Cameroon's North West and South West regions quickly turned violent and developed into what's become known as Cameroon's anglophone crisis.
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:38:16 GMTAfcon 2025 - Holders Ivory Coast to Face Cameroon, Uganda Draws Nigeria
[Nile Post] Uganda, returning to the biannual tournament after two showings in 2017 and 2019 was interrupted by a dip, were in their best form in the qualifiers under Belgian tactician Paul Put.
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:45:41 GMTHolders Cote d'Ivoire Drawn to Face Rivals Cameroon in Tricky Group F
[CAF] The draw for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Morocco 2025, held on Monday, 27 January 27 in Rabat, revealed several thrilling group stage match-ups.
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 04:55:53 GMTCries of Torture Precede Death in Custody
[HRW] Nairobi -- Carry out Effective Investigation, Hold Perpetrators Accountable
Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:08:25 GMTCameroon - in Campo, Local Residents Express Their Annoyance With Camvert
[Greenpeace] Yaounde -- The population of Campo in the south region of Cameroon have taken to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with the companies CAMVERT, SOPHONY and BOISCAM. Following the demonstrations at the weekend, one local residen...
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:57:26 GMTA Symbol of Hope - the Impact of Biometric ID Cards On Refugees in Cameroon
[UNHCR] Ali Bappaladane has been living in Cameroon for almost six years now. He is president of the refugee association in Mbaimboum, Far North region. Today, Ali joins a queue of excited refugees waiting to receive their government-issued biometric...