Cameroon has launched an awareness campaign among the population after two cases of polio were detected in Yaounde, health officials said Thursday. “The response consists of sensitizing communities for the observation of hygiene measures, intensification of routine immunization, and epidemiological surveillance,” Dr. José Shalom Tchokfe, head of the Ministry of …
Read More »In Cameroon, journalists can’t breathe as laws stifle press freedom
Journalists in Sierra Leone have heaved a collective sigh of relief following the repeal – after a gruelling 55-year struggle – of a law which had been weaponised by authorities to curtail press freedom. On October 28, President Julius Maada Bio signed a decree revising the country’s 1965 Public Order …
Read More »Cameroon buries 7 children lost to gun attack in Kumba
Thursday morning saw a dark cloud of tragedy hang over the Regional Hospital of Kumba, Cameroon as many gathered to mourn seven students shot in cold blood by armed men at the College St Mother Francisca a week ago. This funeral comes only 24 hours after an attack on a …
Read More »At least six children killed in Cameroon school gun attack
At least six children were killed when gunmen raided a school in Koumba, southwest Cameroon on Saturday. Fransisca International Bi-lingual Academy was the victim of the attack. TV pictures showed a blood-stained floor in a room littered with classroom furniture. An eyewitness, a student at the school, told Africanews that …
Read More »Cameroon 2021 AFCON qualifiers to restart in November
The 2021 Cameroon African Cup of Nations qualifiers that were brought to a stop abruptly by the coronavirus pandemic has been scheduled to resume in November by the Confederation of African Football. This was contained in a letter CAF has served to its Member Associations after an emergency executive meeting …
Read More »Cameroon conflict: ‘I go to a secret school’
When his family recently fled a separatist rebellion in the country’s English-speaking regions, they thought they had found a place where he could go to school in safety. But that has turned out not to be the case as the school he attends in Douala, the biggest city in Cameroon, …
Read More »Dozens killed, 34 missing in deadly landslide
At least 22 bodies were recovered from a landslide in Bafoussam in Western Cameroon on Tuesday. 34 others are reported missing following heavy torrential rain that caused the deadly landslide. “We present the government’s solidarity with Bafoussam. I think it is useful that, without delay the government support the people …
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