Politics 
Cameroon’s Biya reshuffles cabinet – Reuters
YAOUNDE Dec 10 (Reuters) – Cameroon President Paul Biya has reshuffled his cabinet, according to a presidential decree read over state television on Saturday, his first major step since he was re-elected in an October poll. The changes include …
Cameron Treaty Veto Leaves U.K. Alone as EU Leaders Negotiate Fiscal Unity – Bloomberg
Cameron’s move was greeted with delight and comparisons to wartime leader Winston Churchill by Conservatives at home. Opposition politicians said he was now unable to protect U.K. interests in any treaty agreed upon by the 26 other countries …
UK Treasury chief defends Cameron’s EU treaty veto – msnbc.com
But Cameron also is facing a chorus of criticism from the opposition Labour Party and growing tensions with his Conservative Party’s junior coalition partner, the Liberal Democrats. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has rejected talk of a rift …
Brinkley: A barbaric custom in Kyrgyzstan – St. Augustine Record
Pakistani officials use gang rape as a government-sanctioned punishment. In Cameroon “breast ironing” remains an honored custom. After their daughters reach puberty, mothers heat a flat rock in the fire and then press it forcefully onto each …
India to increase oil, gas imports from Africa – Kerala Next
Today, more than one-fifth of India’s crude oil imports are from Africa, with the major suppliers being Nigeria, Angola, Algeria, Egypt, Cameroon Equatorial Guinea … Similarly, our government’s emphasis on increasing the share of Natural Gas in the …
Democracy and Reconfigured Power in Africa – Brookings Institution
It can be expected that this dominant party system, as with other post … in Africa have weathered many changes in the political climate. For example, since its independence in January 1960, Cameroon has been led by just two men, … Continue reading
UNICEF warns of impending child nutrition crisis in Africa’s Sahel region – UN News Centre
Niger’s Government has already issued an alert saying more than … northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania and northern Senegal. “This children’s crisis is going to be immensely challenging,” said David Gressly, UNICEF …
UNICEF warns of looming children’s crisis in the Sahel – UNICEF
UNICEF’s West and Central Africa office says the biggest caseload, with an estimated 330,600 children under-5 at risk of severe and acute malnutrition is Niger, where the government has … the north of Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania and …
Africa: HIV-positive women still confused about infant-feeding choices – Reliefweb.int
Based on new research by community health workers from Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire … Although the Nigerian government had revised guidelines to comply with the WHO, consensus did not exist in support of the recommendations, and some clinicians and …
U.K. opposition slams Cameron’s EU opt-out – Marketwatch
LONDON (MarketWatch) — The leader of Britain’s Labour opposition party Ed Miliband said Prime Minister David Cameron “let down [the] country” when he opted out of a new inter-governmental treaty on fiscal discipline at an European Union summit …
