August 01

• Cameroon: Chinese-Built Port Leaves Cameroonians Adrift

  The Kribi Seaport on the coast of southern Cameroon is destined to become a mega harbour to serve all of Central Africa. But there is little chance that locals, particularly... Read more »

July 22

• Cameroon: Malnutrition Killing Children in Cameroon

  At the Garoua Regional Hospital's Paediatric Feeding Centre in northern Cameroon, Aicha Ahidjo* is relieved to hear that her one-year-old son will survive. The child was suffering... Read more »

July 17

• Cameroon: Promises to Gas Victims Only 'Hot Air'

  Ismaela Muhamadu was six years old when he lost his parents and siblings in a poisonous gas explosion at northern Cameroon's Lake Nyos. The blast killed more than 1,800 people, and... Read more »

July 04

• Cameroon: Oiling the Palms of Cameroon's Farmers

  In Maleke village, western Cameroon, an oil palm tree is considered to be "black gold". At least, that is what Joseph Tesse, the local processor of oil palm, tells IPS. Read more »

June 06

• Cameroon: Looking to Cameroon's Women Senators

  Marlyse Aboui, a 40-year-old nurse, has still not gotten over the astonishment she felt when she heard that Cameroon's President Paul Biya had nominated her to the senate. Read more »

May 26

• Cameroon: Activists Claim Win As Herakles Halts Cameroon Operation

  After coming under fire from environmental and social justice organisations for violations of land protection laws, Herakles Farms, a New York-based agricultural company, has... Read more »

March 14

• Cameroon: Cameroonian Farmers Find Justice in Fair Fruit

  The fruit farmers in Njombe, a small town in the coastal Littoral Region of Cameroon, learned a life lesson about "making lemonade out of lemons" - or rather "dried fruit out of... Read more »

February 09

• Cameroon: Saving a Shrinking Lake

  Approaching the Lake Chad basin from Gulfe, a small locality 45 kilometres from Cameroon's Far North Regional capital Maroua, the atmosphere of despair is palpable: dusty air,... Read more »

December 20, 2012

• Cameroon: Fighting to Save Africa's Richest Rainforest

  Monde Kingsley Nfor interviews NASAKO BESINGI, director of environmental NGO Struggle to Economize the Future. Read more »

November 08, 2012

• 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 07, 2012

• 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 23, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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 06, 2012

• 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 30, 2012

• 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 22, 2012

• 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 »

June 28, 2012

• 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 23, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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 01, 2012

• 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 »

February 29, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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 07, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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 11, 2012

• 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 »