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Mora, Far-North Cameroon

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Cameroon is facing multiple and overlapping crises, including recurrent epidemics, malnutrition due to food insecurity, displacement, and conflict.

Currently, our teams run medical humanitarian projects in the Far North, providing services such as medical care, surgical care, maternal and obstetric care, and psychological care. 

We also provide emergency response to epidemics, such as cholera and measles. In the Far North, Littoral, Centre and South-West regions, we have recently provided support to the Ministry of Health to respond to the cholera outbreak. 

Our medical activities in the North-West region were suspended in December 2020 by the authorities, and in the South-West, we decided to temporarily suspend activities after the arrest of four of our colleagues in December 2021 during an ambulance referral. We are in continued dialogue with the authorities to restart medical assistance in other regions.
 

Our activities in 2022 in Cameroon

Data and information from the International Activity Report 2022.  
 

MSF in Cameroon in 2022 In Cameroon, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continued to respond to health emergencies, such as disease outbreaks, floods and mass displacement, in spite of a partial suspension of activities in 2022.
Cameroon IAR map 2022

Although there were new waves of displacement in Far North, Northwest and Southwest regions during the year, we were forced to reduce our activities even further when four of our staff were imprisoned and accused of complicity with secession in Buea, in Southwest region. They were all later exonerated; however, we were not able to resume our medical services as the government provided no guarantees that our staff and patients would be protected.

Meanwhile, the suspension of our medical activities ordered by Cameroonian authorities in Northwest region in December 2020 remains in place, meaning that these two anglophone regions, which have been engulfed in conflict since 2016, have been left without much-needed support.

In Far North region, we responded to the increasing healthcare needs with patient treatment, training of medical staff, and reinforcement of medical supplies in health centres supported by MSF. We also helped improve access to healthcare at community level, by working with community health volunteers, whom we have trained to treat simple cases of common diseases.

Heavy rains in Kousseri caused thousands of people to abandon their homes. During the ensuing high peak in malaria, we scaled up treatment in the area. Due to insecurity issues, we took the hard decision to end our activities in Fotokol, where some of our staff were abducted in January 2022.

There was a surge in cholera cases in several regions in 2022. MSF supported the national response in Centre, Littoral, West and Far North regions, by providing epidemiological surveillance, training for community health workers, hygiene activities to curb the spread of the disease, and vaccinations. We also supported the national COVID-19 response in the capital, Yaoundé, with testing and vaccinations. 

 

in 2022
 
Nigeria, Banki, March 2017
Nigeria

As refugees flee violence, others are forcibly returned

Press Release 19 Apr 2017
 
Lake Tchad Crisis: Responding to the humanitarian consequences of violence  (Extreme North Cameroon)
Lake Chad Crisis

Lake Chad: Years of Forgotten Crisis

Medium.com 31 Oct 2016
 
Testimony of a nigerian refugee
Nigeria

We are scared to return

Voices from the Field 11 Aug 2016
 
MSF intervention in Banki, Borno State, Nigeria , July 2016
Project Update

Crisis Info - July 2016

Crisis Update 27 Jul 2016
 
Lake Chad - people in dire need of support
Lake Chad Crisis

Lake Chad crisis update: Trapped in deadly violence

Project Update 30 Mar 2016
 
Medical and mental healthcare for people displaced by violence in the Lake Chad area.
Lake Chad Crisis

“The only certainty is that people will remain uprooted and continue to live in fear”

Voices from the Field 23 Nov 2015
 
Journal article

Challenges in Responding to Massive Displacements in Resource-poor Settings

12 Nov 2015
Journal article
 
Central African Republic

MSF brings medicines and basic care to a remote area in the north-eastern province of Vakaga

Voices from the Field 28 Sep 2015
 
Cameroun - MSF activities for people displaced by Boko Haram attacks
Cameroon

Tens of thousands flee Boko Haram violence

Project Update 20 Aug 2015

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