November 9

• Cameroon: The Sun Rescues Rural Cameroonians From 'Incessant Darkness'

  In the small farming village of Sabongari, in Cameroon's North West Region, the need for kerosene to light bush lamps and petrol to run electric generators has been replaced by the... Read more »

November 8

• Cameroon: New Vote Move May Bar Women

  Cameroon's new biometric registration of voters may end up disenfranchising many potential voters, especially women in the country's predominantly Muslim north where cultural... Read more »

October 24

• Cameroon: Cooperatives Cushion the Blows of Hunger

  "One in eight people goes to sleep hungry every day," according to the 'State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012', a document released annually by the Food and Agriculture... Read more »

October 16

• Cameroon: Giving Women Land, Giving Them a Future

  Clarisse Kimbi barely ekes out a living from a tiny parcel of land in Kom village in the North West Region of Cameroon. Today, the mother of six finds it hard to put food on the... Read more »

September 6

• Cameroon: U.S. Company Accused of Greenwashing 'Land-Grab'

  Environment groups are accusing a New York-based agricultural company, Herakles Farms, of going forward with plans for a 73,000-hectare palm-oil plantation and refinery in... Read more »

August 31

• Cameroon: Farming Among the Waste in Cameroon

  Cameroonian urban famer Juliana Numfor has six plots of land where she grows maize, cassava, sweet potatoes and leafy vegetables, including cabbages, wild okra and greens. Read more »

August 23

• Cameroon: Cameroonian Athletes Braving the Odds

  Victorine Fomum is Cameroon's 2005 African table tennis champion. She often used to "train without rackets, without balls, without appropriate clothing and without good tables."... Read more »

July 10

• Cameroon: Baka Evicted From Forests Set Aside for Logging

  As Lysette Mendum listens to the sound of bulldozers crashing through the forest clearing a road to a mining site near her small village of Assoumdele in the Ngoyla-Mintom forest... Read more »

April 24

• Cameroon: Farmer Won't Let Low Rainfall Defeat Him

  Olivier Forgha Koumbou washes some freshly picked carrots in a small brook and eats them with relish. His thriving farm in Santa, in Cameroon's North West region, looks like a... Read more »

March 22

• Cameroon: Baka Pygmies Seek an Identity and Education

  Kokpa Pascale Moangue, a Baka Pygmy in southeastern Cameroon, has given his children the one thing he always longed for, but his parents could not give him - an education. And he... Read more »

March 1

• Central Africa: Tentative Steps Towards Adaptation

  Governments and civil society organisations in Central Africa are slowly developing strategies in response to global warming. But specialists say the steps being taken seem... Read more »

• Cameroon: Drought in Sahel Affects Urban Citizens

  Sala Aminata, a housewife from the Logone and Shari Division in Cameroon's Far North Region, looks at her six kids with apprehension as she tries to figure out how to feed them... Read more »

February 15

• West Africa: 'A Catastrophic Year' As Hunger Crisis Looms Over Sahel

  Seven out of the eight governments in the Sahel - the arid zone between the Sahara desert in North Africa and Sudan's Savannas in the south - have taken the unprecedented step of... Read more »

February 7

• Cameroon: Economy Suffers As Boko Haram Infiltrates

  Ahmadou Lamine has been forced to close his business selling fuel imported from Nigeria, known locally as "zoa-zoa", because of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. Read more »

January 26

• Cameroon: Anglophones Feel Like a Subjugated People

  When Cameroon's President Paul Biya announced that the 50th anniversary of the reunification of French and British Cameroon will take place later this year, it resurrected bitter... Read more »

January 12

• Cameroon: Uncertain Prospects for Relationship with China

  The Cameroon government is increasingly turning to China as a privileged partner in its development efforts. But there are many discordant voices who say the long-term effects of... Read more »

January 9

• Cameroon: Replacing Plastic With Leaves To Wrap Food

  Maya Stella, a restaurant manager in the capital of Cameroon, no longer uses plastic to wrap the corn-fufu that she sells to her customers. Read more »

December 30, 2011

• Cameroon: The Taps Have Run Dry

  Mama Rosalie of Damas quarter in the capital of Cameroon trudges down a narrow, winding footpath, headed for a narrow stream running far below, a 20-litre water container in her... Read more »

October 2, 2011

• Cameroon: Protect Your Daughters, Iron Their Breasts

  "Please God, make my breasts disappear." Joyce Forghab used to pray the same line every night during the month she was suffering from breast ironing. The shocking practice, carried... Read more »

December 7, 2010

• Cameroon: Profits Were Only a Phone Call Away

  These are awkward times for the men in the middle in Cameroon's Western Highlands. A profitable niche buying produce cheaply on farms, and supplying farmers with seed and... Read more »