Cameroon: Local women leaders essential in tackling malnutrition and infant mortality

March 10, 2025

Since 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working with influential local women in Cameroon's Far North region, where insecurity and local practices can severely affect access to critical healthcare. Through strategies that see them as key intermediaries, women known...

MSF ambulance service in South-West Cameroon: an essential lifeline in a region beset by violence

July 30, 2021

“Where I come from, this crisis has affected many people, people are scared. Some of them have run away from the village, some have run to Nigeria leaving their husbands and children behind. This crisis has affected us with so...

People in northwest seek healthcare as MSF denied providing medical services

June 23, 2021

While thousands of people struggle to access vital healthcare in the restive North-West region of Cameroon, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been denied the resumption of our healthcare services in the region, six months after a forced suspension by Cameroonian authorities....

Cameroon

February 12, 2019

Since 2011, violent attacks by armed opposition groups and the counterinsurgency operations of the Nigerian army have forced hundreds of thousands of people from northeast Nigeria to seek refuge in Cameroon, Chad and Niger. During the past two years, violence...