Cameroon

Cholera death toll rises to over 420 in Cameroon

By Amindeh Blaise Atabong YAOUNDE (Reuters) - A further 26 people have died in Cameroon's ongoing cholera outbreak in the past two weeks, taking the overall death toll to 426,…

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Cameroon detects two suspected cases of Marburg virus near Eq. Guinea

YAOUNDE/GENEVA (Reuters) - Cameroonian authorities detected two suspected cases of Marburg disease this week in Olamze, a commune on the border with Equatorial Guinea, the public health delegate for the…

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Rotavirus childhood vaccine shortage hits four African countries

LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Supplies of a vaccine to prevent the deadly rotavirus infection in children have either run out in Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal and Cameroon or are close…

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Football: Cameroon moves to stamp down on age cheating

Cameroon’s football federation has summoned 44 players from eight different clubs for a hearing next month into alleged age or identity cheating, it said in a statement. They must be…

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Cameroon vote marked by violence and abstention

Polls have opened in Cameroon elections overshadowed by separatist violence, which has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and a partial opposition boycott. Elections for the central African country's legislature and local…

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Crew from German and Greek ships kidnapped by pirates off Cameroon

Pirates have kidnapped eight crew members of a German-owned ship, the MarMalaita, in a raid on the vessel off Douala, off the coast of Cameroon as well from a Greek…

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80 people, majority of them students, kidnapped in an English-speaking region of Cameroon

Armed separatists have kidnapped nearly 80 people, majority of them students, in an English-speaking region of Cameroon witnessing an armed campaign for independence, a governor has said. Al Jazeera reports that Governor Deben Tchoffo…

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