Sources: India Vision Xinhua
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports more than 350 deaths from cholera in Nigeria this year, which is more than twice as many than in the same period last year. 2024-10-7
President Emmanuel Macron visits Cameroon for diplomatic talks to discuss the ongoing food crisis and strategies to increase agricultural production. Macron will also visit Benin and Guinea Bissau on the trip. 2022-07-26
Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed at least 50 people on an island on Lake Chad, bordering Cameroon and Chad. 2019-12-22
The death toll of a cholera outbreak in Yobe and Borno, Nigeria, rises to 97. 2018-09-22
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe rises to 25. In response, the government launches a crowdfunding campaign, which has been criticized due to it being started amid allegations of misused state funds. 2018-09-14
A passenger train derails in central Cameroon, killing at least 53 people and injuring 575 others. 2016-10-21
In Iraq, a cholera outbreak prompts United Nations agencies UNICEF and the World Health Organization to launch a prevention and treatment campaign. So far, around 2,200 cases have been confirmed, and some infections have occurred in neighboring countries. 2015-11-7
A 13-year-old female suicide bomber attacks in the Cameroonian town of Maroua, killing 20 people and injuring another 70. 2015-07-26
Suspected Sudanese ivory poachers shoot dead an unknown number of elephants at the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park world heritage site in the Central African Republic, close to the border with Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo. 2013-05-9
Riot police in Cameroon arrest and disperse hundreds of farmers protesting in the capital Yaoundé over poor road conditions and low state support for agriculture. 2011-05-31