Africa Cameroon The country now counts over 300 female diplomats according to a report on the representation of women pursuing careers in the diplomatic profession
Africa Cameroon The Potager club, a project started two years ago by Erik Kontchou, aims to reconnect urban children with nature, agriculture and farming
Africa Cameroon Secondary Education Minister Lyonga has ruled through new rules that pregnant high school girls will no longer be excluded from school, but will be able to apply for maternity leave at 26 weeks and resume classes after giving birth
Africa Cameroon Some eighty families, around one thousand people, were forced by bulldozers to leave their homes in the Bali district of the economic capital Douala to make way for the planned construction of a five-star Marriott hotel
Africa Cameroon Two human rights activists in Cameroon - the English-speaking lawyer Felix Nkongho Agbor and the president of the Network of Central African Human Rights Defenders Maximilienne C. Ngo Mbe - have won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award 2022
Africa Cameroon Médecins Sans Frontières has launched an appeal for the release of two of its workers, who have been arrested and now imprisoned for four months
Africa Cameroon The country has signed an agreement with Russia on defence, with the two countries undertaking to develop military cooperation between their armed forces
Africa Cameroon According to the press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the decision of Cameroon's National Communication Council to sanction the private channel Equinoxe TV is an unfounded and abusive attack on information
Africa Cameroon A Cameroonian war refugee, Wilfred Tebah, who left the country three years ago due to the ongoing conflict, is asking for the same treatment as Ukrainians in the US, as some Cameroonian migrants are in detention and risk being deported
Africa Cameroon The Minister of Water and Energy has ordered the rationing of 'energy-intensive' companies to allow households to be supplied in the midst of the crisis caused by, among other things, February's drop in production at the Memvé'élé dam in the dry season
Africa Cameroon This year marks the beginning of the link between Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition and Cameroon, which will be present for the first time with its own pavilion at the 59th edition
Africa Cameroon Love between two women in a country where the penal code prohibits homosexual relations is told in "Laure and Ada", a book by Cameroon-born Frenchman Christophe Ngalle Edimo, soon available in the country through the Adefho association
Africa Cameroon More than 700.000 children are deprived of the fundamental right to education in the Anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, with many experiencing their fifth year of denied or restricted access to schooling