2020-02-05 Cameroon Urges Women to Vote
Community groups, political parties and the government in Cameroon have been appealing to women to vote in elections on Sunday. They are telling the women not to fear threats made…
2016-01-13 Suicide Attack Kills at Least 10 in Cameroon
Suicide bombers killed at least 10 people Wednesday at a mosque in northern Cameroon. Officials said the bombings took place before sunrise in Kolofata, a town near the border with…
2015-11-05 Group Urges Cameroon Government to Close 1,000 Hospitals
The National Medical Council in Cameroon is calling on government officials to close 1,000 hospitals it says are operating illegally. The council says the hospitals do not have enough trained…
2015-08-13 Cameroon’s Military Deployed as Boko Haram Threat Rises
The central African nation of Cameroon is taking steps to guard against attacks from Boko Haram militants. The government has deployed troops to all major towns to search people, goods,…
2015-04-06 Boko Haram Attacks Cameroon for Supplies
On Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria, reports say Boko Haram fighters have been stealing food and animals from farmers for the past few weeks. Most of the food producers are…
2015-01-15 Central African Republic Refugees Fleeing to Cameroon
Thousands of people from the Central African Republic continue to flee Cameroon. They are escaping violence that continues even after a peace deal between the Muslim Seleka and Christian anti-balaka…
2014-12-11 Elephants, Hippos Attack Villages in Cameroon
Some of the world’s biggest animals are harming villagers in far north Cameroon. The people say hundreds of elephants and hippopotamuses have caused major damage to farms and destroyed their…
2014-12-06 In Cameroon, New Tool for Pregnancy Planning
Cameroon has become the seventh African country to begin using a program called Calculator 28. The program calculates — helps to predict – the period when a woman is most…
2014-01-15 Cameroon Turns Against Illegal Hospitals
Hello, again, and welcome back. I’m Jim Tedder in Washington. We invite you to listen carefully so that you can learn and improve your American English. Today we talk about…
2016-12-01 Lawyers, Teachers in Cameroon Strike for More English
Protests over the English language in Cameroon have grown violent. A strike, called to increase the use of English, has spread to schools and universities in English-speaking areas. Lawyers and…
2016-09-07 School Year Begins in Cameroon, But Many Children Not in Class
Schools in Cameroon re-opened this week for the beginning of a new school year. But an estimated 100,000 children in northern Cameroon are not attending classes. They have been forced…
2015-04-11 Cameroon Building Classrooms for Students Fleeing Boko Haram
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Cameroon has launched an $8 million emergency program to help students displaced by Boko Haram militants. The government last month announced…