Cameroon

Cameroon: Policy for Water Coverage

Access to water: Cameroon adopts national policy to improve 29% coverage. The Ministry of Water and Energy (Minee) and UNICEF officially launched the National Water Policy (PNE) in Yaoundé on 11 Apri...
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Lake Chad isn’t shrinking, but…

Lake Chad isn’t shrinking — but climate change is causing other problems. Contrary to popular conception, Lake Chad is not shrinking; new research shows that the volume of water in the lake has incr...
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Lake Chad: Water Management for Peace

Cross-border water management: the power for peace. In an interview for the German Agency for International Cooperation giz, Mamman Nuhu, Executive Secretary of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, explain...
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Cameroon: Update on Water Tussle

There have been headlines about a tussle between the government of Cameroon and the World Bank (see Blue News here). Now the Cameroonian newspaper l’Economie adds a new twist:  Camwater plans to...
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Cameroon: Tussle with the World Bank?

Africa Intelligence reports on a conflict over water between the World Bank and the government of Cameroon. The World Bank is calling for the price of a cubic meter of drinking water to be raised to 2...
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