Cameroon

Afghanistan redux, mind your language, and Angola’s First Family

25 August 2017

Which humanitarian topics are on IRIN’s radar and should be on yours? Check out our curation of upcoming events, topical reports, opinion, and quality journalism:

Analysis

Young guns: Cameroon's Boko Haram problem
11 August 2017
Jobless youth have been an easy target for Boko Haram. Now young people are organising to resist recruitment
Analysis

Language of peace hard to find as Cameroon crisis festers
16 May 2017
Cameroon’s French- and English-speaking regions are becoming more bitterly divided as secessionism grows

We are not the world: Inside the “perfect storm” of famine
30 March 2017 Special Report
Lake Chad money, Oxfam-GOAL merger, and serial Syria talks: The Cheat Sheet
17 February 2017 News
Boko Haram still a threat to refugees in Cameroon
11 January 2017 Feature

Analysis

Ten humanitarian stories to look out for in 2017
2 January 2017
IRIN’s tip sheet on the issues that will have an impact in the new year
News

The Grinch’s not-so-festive guide to food ration cuts
27 December 2016
Naughty or nice, no matter: those requiring food assistance this year, particularly in Africa, are finding things even tougher than usual
Feature

HAS VIDEO

Non, merci: English-speaking Cameroon rises up, wants Republic of Ambazonia
15 December 2016
Long marginalised within a majority French-speaking country, Cameroon’s Anglophone regions now want to secede
Feature

“The new terrible”
3 August 2016
Boko Haram violence has created a humanitarian crisis across four countries in West Africa, but the aid system has been desperately slow to respond.
Feature

Alive or dead?
5 April 2016
A military court in Cameroon last month sentenced to death 89 men on terrorism charges related to Boko Haram violence. A reporting blackout made it...
News

Boko Haram is losing, but so is food production
11 March 2016
Nigeria’s war against Boko Haram is finally swinging in the government’s favour, but it’s going to take much longer for food production to recover in...