The Crisis in Cameroon is Getting Worse Mark Leon Goldberg May 8, 2019There is an escalating humanitarian crisis in Cameroon where more than half a million people have been displaced by conflict.This conflict erupted in earnest in late 2017 and early 2018 in a series of attacks and reprisals between Anglophone separatists an...
A Crisis in Cameroon is Forcing English Speakers to Flee in Alarming Numbers Mark Leon Goldberg January 25, 2018To access to this podcast episode: subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify or get the mobile app to listen later. Over 10,000 people have fled from English speaking regions of Cameroon to neighboring Nigeria in recent weeks. They are escaping an ongoin...
Why Are Protesters Being Shot Dead in Cameroon? Penelope Chester October 5, 2017Over the course of the past year, Cameroon has been experiencing internal turmoil and instability related to grievances pitting an Anglophone minority against a majority Francophone establishment. The Anglophone grievances, initially driven primarily by profes...
Podcast: Meet Jeffrey Smith. Meet Jeffrey Smith: A thorn in the side of Africa’s dinosaur presidents Mark Leon Goldberg June 26, 2017My guest today Jeffrey Smith helps bring down Africa's "presidents for life." His organization, Vanguard Africa, is very new but they already have one success under their belt-- assisting the peaceful transition of power from The Gambia's longtime ruler. ...
This Government Used “Fake News” as a Pretext to Shut Off The Internet to Half the Country Penelope Chester April 21, 2017For the past thee months, the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon have been cut off from the Internet, after the government abruptly ordered Internet Service Providers to cut off access for those regions on January 17. Residents of those regions - roug...
Fewer Newborns are Dying Worldwide than Ever Before, But USA Ranks Appalingly Low on Global Infant Survival Study Mark Leon Goldberg August 31, 2011Here in the USA, our infant mortality rate is 4.3 per 1,000 live births. That puts us on par with Croatia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, and behind Cuba and Poland.
In Cameroon: When HIV Treatment Fails, Do We Let the Patient Fail As Well? Mark Leon Goldberg August 29, 2011How UNITAID strives to bring down the cost of expensive second line HIV/AIDS medicines.
In Cameroon, With UNITAID Mark Leon Goldberg August 25, 2011Blogging from Cameroon this week, on a UNITAID sponsored trip to examine HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB programs.
