August 24, 2023
Gabon: Last-Minute Gabon Voting Rule Change Poses Governance Risk, Experts Say
Political analysts say a last-minute rule change in Gabon's August 26 national elections, which now stipulates voters must select their presidential and parliamentary candidate… Read more »
August 23, 2023
Cameroon: Officials Say Seawater Is Swallowing West Coast Buildings, Villages and Plantations
Encroaching waters from the Atlantic Ocean have destroyed several hundred homes and buildings along parts of Cameroon's 400-kilometer coast on the Atlantic Ocean. Officials in the… Read more »
August 18, 2023
Cameroon: Cameroon Suspends Work Contracts - Foreign Workers There Illegally Must Leave
Officials in Cameroon suspended the work contracts of several thousand foreign workers, including Africans, Chinese and Europeans, and ordered them to obtain work permits and pay… Read more »
August 11, 2023
Cameroon: Govt, Aid Groups Begin Emergency Food Distribution in Vulnerable Towns and Villages
Aid groups and the government of Cameroon say they distributed rice, millet and beans to at least 30,000 people this week along the central African state's northern border with… Read more »
August 09, 2023
Sudan: Medical Students From War-Torn Sudan Find Hope in Rwanda
At least 160 medical students who fled their homes and abandoned their studies due to the war in Sudan have found hope and a second chance to complete their education in Rwanda. Read more »
August 07, 2023
Cameroon: Mass Grave Found With Bodies of 2021 Kidnap Victims - Military
Military officials in Cameroon say they have found a mass grave near the border with Nigeria containing the bodies of nine civilians, including five government officials, who were… Read more »
August 03, 2023
Cameroon: Cameroon Says Military Deployed After New Militant Attack Kills At Least a Dozen
Cameroon said Thursday that at least 12 people have been killed in new attacks by Boko Haram in Darak, a fishing island on Cameroon's northern border with Chad and Nigeria.… Read more »
July 31, 2023
Cameroon: Women Protest Separatist War, Cost of Living On Pan African Women's Day
Hundreds of women and activists marched in the capital of Cameroon Monday, calling for an end to the country's separatist crisis and for the government to provide more help to… Read more »
July 24, 2023
Cameroon: Rescue Workers Search for Survivors After Building Collapse
Cameroon's President Paul Biya has ordered the demolition of poorly constructed, illegal houses in the port city of Douala, the country's largest city and economic hub. The order… Read more »
July 20, 2023
Cameroon: English-Speaking Civilians Say Economic Activity At Standstill After Separatist Roadblocks
In Cameroon, authorities say separatists have set up roadblocks to at least 20 western districts to protest what they call excessive brutality by government troops. The rebels… Read more »
July 18, 2023
Cameroon: Cameroon Military, Separatists Trade Accusations of Civilian Killings
Cameroon's military says it has arrested scores of rebels suspected in the shooting deaths of 10 civilians Sunday in the northwest town of Bamenda. The military says separatists… Read more »
July 12, 2023
West Africa: Yaounde Hosted Sahel Cross-Boundary Pastoralists Forum Proposes Peacekeeping
Ministers from eight of Africa's Sahel region countries are meeting in Cameroon to try to end conflicts between farmers and nomadic herders. The ministers say seasonal movement of… Read more »
July 11, 2023
West Africa: Separatists Torch Trucks of Cocoa As Farmers Protest Ban on Exports to Nigeria
Cameroon's anglophone rebels have torched truckloads of cocoa that were bound for French-speaking towns as farmers protest a ban of exports to Nigeria. Read more »
Africa: WFP - Growing Number of Refugees From Sudan's Darfur Region Crossing Into Chad
The United Nations food agency says thousands of people are crossing the border into the central African nation of Chad from neighboring Sudan to escape the nearly three-month-old… Read more »
July 07, 2023
Cameroon: Cameroon Vaccinates for Measles, but Says Hesitancy Persists
Officials in Cameroon say vaccine hesitancy is preventing them from inoculating millions of children for childhood diseases in the first major campaign since the COVID-19 pandemic… Read more »
July 03, 2023
Cameroon: Officials Urge Halt to Plastic Bags Use to Save Environment
Officials in Cameroon say plastic bag pollution in the country has doubled in the past four years to 600,000 tons, harming the environment and animal and human health. The central… Read more »
June 29, 2023
Cameroon: Cameroon's Farmers Decry Crop Export Ban to Nigeria
Cameroon is cracking down on the smuggling of cocoa, cotton, and other cash crops to Nigeria by temporarily banning the legal trade as well. Since announcing the ban two weeks ago,… Read more »
June 27, 2023
Central African Republic: U.S. Sanctions Companies Linked to Gold Trade to Fund Wagner Fighters
The United States on Tuesday accused companies in the United Arab Emirates, the Central African Republic and Russia of engaging in illicit gold deals to help fund the mercenary… Read more »
June 23, 2023
Cameroon: Cameroon Widows Protest Government Neglect, Plead for Assistance
In Cameroon, hundreds of women made widows by the country's separatist conflict are protesting what they call the government's lack of support. The widows say they have been left… Read more »
June 19, 2023
Cameroon: Cameroon Overwhelmed With Refugees
Ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20, humanitarian agencies are distributing aid to the nearly 500,000 refugees who live in Cameroon. The U.N. refugee agency says another 400… Read more »
June 16, 2023
Cameroon: Communication Council Prohibits LGBTI Scenes On TV
Cameroon has prohibited the broadcast of television programs that it says propagate homosexuality in the central African state. Read more »
Cameroon: Cameroon Gives Birth Certificates to Children Deprived of Education
Ahead of International Day of the African Child on June 16, rights groups and officials in Cameroon are distributing birth certificates to 30,000 of several million children denied… Read more »
June 13, 2023
Africa: Rwandan Refugees in Malawi Complain of Being Targeted and Victimized
Rwandan refugees and asylum-seekers in Malawi say they fear being deported or losing their right to stay in the country, following steps by the government to apprehend refugees… Read more »
Cameroon: Officials Campaign Against Taboos to Encourage People to Donate Blood
Blood banks in Cameroon are usually close to empty due to widely held taboos against blood donation. Officials in the central African country are trying to convince people to move… Read more »
June 09, 2023
Tanzania: UN Sending Home Peacekeepers Implicated in Sexual Abuse
The United Nations said Friday that it is sending home a unit of 60 Tanzanian peacekeepers from the Central African Republic, after a preliminary investigation found credible… Read more »
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