Cameroon
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“All is lost”?: Cameroon’s controversial logging in biodiverse Ebo forest
Why has the government awarded a logging concession in the mega biodiverse Ebo forest to a little-known company? When Yetina Victor last visited the ... -
Paul Biya’s ghostly legacy in Cameroon: The absence that shaped a nation
In power for 41 years, the 90 year-old president has ruled mostly in absentia, a ghostly embodiment of a gerontocracy that has gifted its ... -
Cameroon: The keyboard warlords of the breakaway republic
Two social media rivals from the Anglophone southwest, based in far-off England, have been prosecuting their own digital war – with life-and-death consequences in ... -
Meet Cameroon’s undercover conservationists
When the Anglophone war broke out, state rangers left, militias set up camp in forests, and thousands sought refuge in areas of critical biodiversity. ... -
Liberté, Egalité, Impunité
Cameroon’s courting of Russian support has left France on the back foot. Emmanuel Macron landed in Cameroon last month as the first French president ... -
The climate crisis tinderbox in northern Cameroon
Amid growing resource scarcities, dozens have died and tens of thousands have been displaced by fighting triggered by a cow drowning. Last August, two ... -
AFCON 2022’s match ball was not just a football
Cameroonian designer Fule Valentine designed the ball with traditional textile patterns seeking to engender a unified national identity. On 23 November, 2022, the Confederation ... -
Cameroon has finally made its Netflix debut. It’s been a long time coming.
The Anglophone film industry has overcome many odds to reach a global audience. In early 2021, Anglophone Cameroonian filmmakers made a momentous debut as ... -
Death by a thousand cuts: Cameroon struggles in fight against separatists
Despite government claims that the Anglophone conflict is under control, recent developments suggest otherwise. There’s only one way out. The Anglophone regions’ relatively quiet ...
