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Plan, Global Fund US$50m to fight diseases in 3 states

September 14, 2011 Plan logo

Plan and Global Fund have launched a US$50m project to fight diseases in three West African countries.

The distribution of materials and medicines to prevent malaria, reduce guinea worm infections and river blindness begins later this month across Togo.

 

Cameroon govt to distribute 9 million mosquito nets

August 22, 2011 Insecticide Mosquito Net

Cameroonian Prime Minister, Philemon Yang, has launched an anti-malaria campaign, promising to distribute nine million free mosquito nets across the country.

Cameroon cholera epidemic persists with nearly 500 deaths

August 18, 2011 Food left exposed on sale in Douala

Cameroon has been grappling with a cholera epidemic that is ravaging the country for some eight months now, but the death toll and the number of cases continue to rise.

Call for urgent action, as Cameroon cholera death toll rises

August 1, 2011 President Paul Biya, Cameroon

Cameroonians continue to struggle in containing a cholera epidemic, which has claimed many lives and infected thousands since May this year.

Traditional media threatened--says WADR Producer

June 15, 2011 Elisabeth Laure-Njipwo, WADR

It's now the multi media era considered the digital revolution, which is greatly changing the Journalism profession and the media landscape, something a West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) Producer, Elisabeth-Laure Njipwo says is threatening the mainstream or traditional media.

Most of Cameroon hit by Cholera, with 256 deaths

June 10, 2011

Nine out of 10 regions in Cameroon are said to hit by a raging cholera epidemic, which killed up to 256 people so far.

 

Deadly cholera sweeping across Cameroon, says Plan

May 10, 2011 Sweeping cholera in Cameroon

Plan International has reiterated its warning that a deadly cholera outbreak in Cameroon could infect up to 10,000 people, if immediate action was not taken to control the disease.

West African ministers discuss money laundering threat

May 9, 2011 W. African Ministers in plenary at the forum

Twelve Ministers from member countries of West African regional bloc, ECOWAS have been attending the ministerial meeting of the Intergovernmental Action Group against Money laundering in West Africa (GIABA).

Mobilizing investment in infrastructure and agriculture

April 27, 2011

Dozens of governmental decision-makers from across the continent are here in Dakar for a meeting on mobilizing investment in infrastructure and agriculture in Africa.

CPJ urges Cameroon to end abusive detention of Journalists

April 23, 2011

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is urging the Cameroonian government to begin reforms that would end abusive detentions and criminal prosecution of Journalists, including those probing corruption cases.