Cameroon, Africa

Governments in Africa are taking steps to lure more investors to their mining sectors with friendly legislation and attractive tax breaks. One...

DOUALA Thursday, November 27, 2008 (IRIN) - Food price hikes that sparked deadly riots in Cameroon earlier this year have severely cut meals for...

YAOUNDÉ Wednesday, November 26, 2008 (IRIN) - When newspapers in Cameroon carried the story of a local businessman who allegedly had infected young...

DOUALA Friday, August 29, 2008 (IRIN) - In 2001 the Cameroonian government created a special rapid intervention battalion (BIR) to quell...

ABUJA Thursday, September 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Up to 100,000 Nigerians displaced from Bakassi in southern Nigeria are sheltering in makeshift camps 10...

YAOUNDÉ Wednesday, November 05, 2008 (IRIN) - Marie Gisèle Tientcheu, 30, an AIDS activist, has developed resistance to second-line antiretroviral...

Health ministers from countries of the African meningitis belt today committed themselves to introduce a highly promising candidate meningitis...

The persistent and increasing outbreaks of violence against members of the gay community in Africa are jeopardising efforts undertaken to combat HIV,...

Since the 1990s when the Cameroon government stopped providing free water in urban centres, most of the population of the commercial capital Douala...

In response to the inflow of Chadian refugees into Cameroon’s northeastern town of Kousséri earlier this month, 5,523 persons have already been...