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YAOUNDE VOA | In western Cameroon, hundreds of single mothers?protested this week against the cultural practice of forced marriage.?The women, who say their parents forced them into early marriage, called on authorities to help end the practice, saying it too often ends in broken families. Twenty-year-old single mother Metombemb Aicha …

DAKAR/YAOUNDE (Reuters) – BY EDWARD MCALLISTER and Josiane Kouagheu – On the morning of April 24, Fritz Takang became so breathless he could barely walk across the cramped cell he shared with 60 inmates at the main prison in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde That night, he said, he was evacuated with …

cgtn | A cholera outbreak has killed 12 people in the fishing village of Londji in south Cameroon, local health authorities said Wednesday. Officials also announced 62 confirmed cases out of 83 suspected ones in the village located about 15 km from the country’s seaside resort town of Kribi. South …

Les Observateurs | Une vidéo postée à plusieurs reprises sur Facebook prête à l’ambassadeur de France au Cameroun, Christophe Guilhou, des propos qu’il n’a jamais tenus. Pourtant, le diplomate bouge bien les lèvres comme s’il parlait face caméra. La vidéo est en fait un “deepfake”, technologie permettant de faire dire …