Cameroon + 7 more
DAKAR/GENEVA, 11 October 2011 – UNICEF is calling for a redoubling of efforts to combat cholera outbreaks that are claiming lives and affecting large numbers of people across West and Central Africa. This year has seen more…
Cameroon + 3 more
GLIDE n° EP-2011-000098-TCD 22 September 2011 This bulletin is being issued for information only and reflects the current situation and details available at this time. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is seeking…
Cameroon + 5 more
Anne Look | Dakar International aid workers say West and Central Africa are in the grips of a regional cholera epidemic that has been aggravated by heavy rains and flooding. According to the U.N. Office for the Coordination…
Cameroon
On August 20, Dr. Esther Tallah, the head of the Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria, and I set out for Mfou, 25 kilometers outside of Yaounde, to be part of the country’s largest ever bed net distribution…
Cameroon + 3 more
DAKAR, 30 August 2011 (IRIN) - Cholera has killed at least 1,200 people this year in the countries surrounding Lake Chad - Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria; the illness, linked primarily to poor sanitation and lack…
Cameroon
DAKAR, 19 August 2011 (IRIN) - "It's 9pm. Are you and your family sleeping under a mosquito net?" That message - delivered by government officials, artists and other personalities in Cameroon - will run on private and…
Cameroon
Par Moustapha Diallo, Chargé de Communication FICR A Wobia, dans un petit village de pêcheurs, au sud-ouest du Cameroun, quelques volontaires de la Croix-Rouge Camerounaise apprennent aux enfants comment se prémunir du choléra. En quelques semaines, cette…
Cameroon
By Moustapha Diallo in Cameroon In Wobia, a small fishing village in western Cameroon, volunteers from the Cameroon Red Cross (CRC) teach children how to protect themselves from cholera. Within weeks the disease has bereaved several families…
Cameroon
DAKAR, 28 June 2011 (IRIN) - Devolving power to local authorities is helping Cameroon step up its fight against a two-year cholera outbreak, say government and aid agency staff. In 2010 decision-making and financing on health, water…
Cameroon
23 June 2011: With just one doctor for every 8,000 people in Bibemi – a district hit hard by Cameroon’s cholera outbreak – it’s all hands on deck, blogs Plan Ireland’s Dualta Roughneen. Bibemi is a rural…
