Cameroon is in Africa’s top five countries for biodiversity yet is facing a devastating decline in species due to habitat loss, poaching, and illegal wildlife trade (IWT). The consequences of this decline go beyond ecological concerns, as they also impact the country's economy, socio-cultural fabric, and wider conservation efforts. Analysis …
More than 300 million people in Africa lack access to clean drinking water, the African Water Association (AAE) said on Wednesday.AAE made the statement on Wednesday in Douala, Cameroon during the second stage of the Scientific and Technical Council (STC) and the Executive Committee of the Pan-African organization. “The main …
Local residents complain expansion plans by Socapalm, Cameroon’s biggest palm oil company, will take over land that belongs to them With precise, hard strikes a man cuts the branches of the short palm trees. Amid all the other tropical plants growing wildly around and into each other, the branches are …
Health authorities however assured that the situation in Benakuma Health District in Menchum Division is under control. Following the measles outbreak in the North West Region, especially in Benakuma Health District in Menchum Division, which has so far claimed the lives of nine children, the Governor of the North West …
Some 11 Health Districts are affected by the epidemic that has been going on for some months now. In the past few months, there have been reported cases of measles in some 11 Health Districts in the North West Region. There are Ndu, Nkambe and Nwa in Donga-Mantung, Ndop in …
The groundwork for the construction of a 72 megawatt hydroelectric dam over the Menchum River in the North West Region is taking shape with officials at the Ministry of Water Resources and Energy saying the recent publication by the Ministry of Public Contracts of the bid on June 26, 2015, …
Morocco's Platinum Power, a subsidiary of U.S. private equity firm Brookstone Partners, plans to invest 500 billion CFA francs ($845.87 million) to build a hydroelectric project in Cameroon, the company said. Platinum Power signed a framework public–private partnership agreement with the Cameroonian government on Wednesday to build a 400 megawatt …
U.S. intelligence agencies are considering whether to provide information, analysis and possibly tactical lessons to African governments about how to attack wildlife poaching networks, according to a top official. “We are looking for opportunities” where “we can contribute,” Terrance Ford, the national intelligence manager for Africa in the office of …
After more than a decade of major achievements, the AIDS response is at a crucial juncture, both in terms of its immediate trajectory and its sustainability, as well as its place in the new global health and development agendas. In May, 2013, the UNAIDS–Lancet Commission—a diverse group of experts in …
Protecting the world's dwindling forests and making small farms more productive will cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually – money governments and charities do not have to spend, experts said at a London conference. Private investors could fill the gap, they said - but only if environmentalists and finance …
Health officials in the country say a measles outbreak is rapidly spreading across the country. Already, some 52 health districts in all the ten regions in the country are affected with deaths registered because of the gravity of the illness, especially when it occurs in an area where children are …
Surveys and interviews were used to understand community resilience in forest-dependent communities facing climate change in Cameroon. Surveys of 232 individuals showed a diversity of formal and informal institutions that relate to most aspects of rural life. Although direct activities related to climate change adaptation were limited, the activities and …
The second edition of the campaign against neglected diseases was launched in Yaounde on Friday May 8, 2015. Some tropical diseases tend to be neglected, with the main ones being onchorcecaisis, filaria, leprosy, yaws, trachoma, trypanosomiasis, buruli ulcer and leishmaniose, among others. These diseases have been neglected for long, whereas …
The 2015 tree planting season in Cameroon has been launched by the Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Ngole Philip Ngwese. At the event site on Thursday May 7, 2015, in Bamenda, Philip Ngwese announced that FCFA 80 million has been earmarked for the tree planting exercise in the North West …
An Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS) has been put in place to monitor ivory trade in the Central African Sub-region. Experts in wildlife protection have decried the alarming decrease of elephants population as well as other protected wildlife species in the Central African Sub Region. Meeting in Limbe on April …
A new tracking system to gather information on illegal elephant poaching has been put in place for the Central African Sub-region. Meeting in Buea in the South West recently, regional experts decried the decline of elephants, pointing accusation to poachers. They unanimously agreed on the putting in place of a …
MINDIF, Cameroon - A pioneering solar-powered water distribution system is improving access to potable water in a region of Far North Cameroon beset by drought, water-related illness and an influx of refugees fleeing Boko Haram attacks. The system, in which water is collected in a large dam built amid the …
Cameroonians in all the nooks and crannies of the country are receiving answers to these questions and many others as the world commemorates Tuberculosis Day under the theme "Reach, Treat and Cure Everyone". The Permanent Secretary for the National Programme for the Fight Against Tuberculosis, Dr Jean-Louis Foe Abena says …
Nigeria and other countries of the Sub-Sahara African region have the world's worst access to electricity, the International Energy Agency, IEA, said in its latest report. The report said that the sub-region has 13 percent of the world's population, but 48 percent of the share of the global population without …
A pioneering solar-powered water distribution system is improving access to potable water in a region of Far North Cameroon beset by drought, water-related illness and an influx of refugees fleeing Boko Haram attacks. The system, in which water is collected in a large dam built amid the region's hills and …
Revealing new details about the origins of AIDS, scientists said on Monday half the lineages of the main type of human immunodeficiency virus, HIV-1, originated in gorillas in Cameroon before infecting people, probably via bushmeat hunting. HIV-1, which causes AIDS, is composed of four groups, each coming from a separate …
