VOA | MAROUA, CAMEROON — Activists in Cameroon are urging more women candidates to enter races for Senate seats before a January 28 deadline. Only 26 members of Cameroon’s 100-member senate are women, a number advocates want to see doubled. But patriarchal beliefs and a lack of political support are …
Read More »The plight of child hawkers in Bamenda
Child-protection officials in Cameroon say poverty is driving many children to start begging and hawking on the streets. As a result, the English-speaking region of Bamenda is grappling with a spike in child hawkers. In Cameroon’s Northwest city of Bamenda, hawkers sell items in traffic and along busy streets. One …
Read More »Le makossa pleure Djene Djento
CRTV | L’auteur du titre à succès “Débroussaillez” est décédé ce 15 décembre 2022 alors qu’il se rendait dans la région de l’Ouest pour un spectacle. La mauvaise nouvelle intervient alors que le Cameroun tout entier pleure encore Ekambi Brillant, une autre icône de la musique décédée il y a …
Read More »Ekambi Brillant has passed away
The musician and artist known as ‘Ekambi Brillant’ has passed away on Monday, December 12, 2022 at the Laquintinie hospital in Douala, Cameroon following a long illness. Ekambi Brillant, whose real name is Ekambi Ekambi Louis Brillant, was born on June 18, 1948 in Dibombari near Douala, he was 74 …
Read More »Cameroon: Rescue efforts continue, as death toll from landslide increases to 15 | +video
Africanews | At least 15 people died Sunday in a landslide on a hillside where a crowd was attending a funeral in a popular neighborhood of Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital, the governor of the region told AFP Monday in a new report. A few hours after the tragedy, Naseri Paul …
Read More »Family mourns victims of Cameroon landslide | + video
Reuters | A landslide in Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé killed at least 15 people who were attending a funeral.
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