Douala, Cameroon News

Cyprian Hedrick will be the first to tell you he is blessed, but don’t mistake that to mean that he has led a charmed life.Hedrick, 22, a surprise pick at No.

Tongleu FranA ois Xavier was reportedly stabbed on his belly at about 1 a.m. yesterday, February 7. The deceased's younger brother, Temfouet Zebazee, 25, a drug addict and ex-murder convict, allegedly stabbed his older brother with a pair of scissors for unknown reasons.

The Cameroon government is increasingly turning to China as a privileged partner in its development efforts.

Sophie Mixte, who is in her 30s, says she was raped three times growing up. But it wasn't until the third incident that her parents found out and reported it to the police.

Last year I described former Merokean Jessica Sussman's plans to travel to Cameroon, where she would use her expertise as a social worker to help in AIDS prevention.A She has now returned- and in the two-part series that begins with this column, she details her experiences in Africa.

Dried cocoa beans are packed in hessian sacks on a cocoa farm near Amankwakram in Western Ghana on the border with Ivory coast February 14, 2011.

The company is principally engaged in exploration, and development of oil and gas production in Cameroon and Gabon in West Africa.