A global financier of vaccines for children in poor countries said Thursday it is working with the governments of Cameroon and Niger to recover up to $6.7 million in misused or stolen funds.

PPG Industries has been selling house paint high in lead content in the African nation of Cameroon for years, and although it says it stopped production of that paint late last year, it has rejected a request that it recall or accurately label its lead paints now selling in stores there.

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon has decided to keep subsidies on fuel through 2012 in an effort to help ordinary citizens, a state-run agency said on Thursday, ditching a plan to slash the costly programme. The decision follows protests and strikes in neighbouring Nigeria that forced the government there to roll back a huge fuel price hike, which was intended to divert public funds toward ...

China Petroleum Corp. Set To Ship Its Oil Via Cameroon By End Of 2012 - Official

DENVER, COLORADO-- - Geovic Mining Corp. , on behalf of the Company's 60.5% subsidiary Geovic Cameroon PLC., Cameroon national investment corporation) is pleased to provide an update on progress at the ...

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon exported 131,989 tonnes of cocoa by the end of December since the season started in August, according to data from the National Cocoa and Coffee Board (NCCB) sent to Reuters on Tuesday. That is down about 11 percent from the 148,973 tonnes exported by the world's No. 5 cocoa grower during the same period a year earlier, according to the figures. The central African ...

[RNW Africa] Since the closure of the border between Nigeria and Cameroon following recent attacks by the Islamist sect Boko Haram, economic activities in this northern border region have come to a grinding halt. For the many who now find themselves jobless, the closure of the border is an extreme measure. According to them, there are no Boko Haram insurgents in the area.

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon's cocoa mid-crop harvest is at risk to an outbreak of capsid bugs in the centre and caterpillars in the south-west, according to field reports from two regions that make up 80 percent of output. Capsids are insects which attack trees, feed on the young branches and cause crop loss. They are most active when the young branches shoot out and spread during the dry ...

Cameroon state radio says that Mount Cameroon, a volcano in the country's southwest region, sent ashes and flames into the air in a brief explosion.

[UN News] The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least seven people.