YAOUNDE ¨C 12 August 2026 ¨C The Government of Japan has contributed JPY 200 million (approximately USD 1.25 million or XAF 708,000,000) to support the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in providing emergency food assistance to more than 13,000 refugees and internally displaced people affected by food insecurity in Cameroon.
YAOUND?, 29 July 2026 ¨C The Government of Cameroon, through the Ministry of Basic Education (MINEDUB), and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) signed a EUR 3.6 million contribution agreement under the Cameroon Basic Education Support Project (CAMBESP) to expand home-grown school feeding in the Adamawa, East and Far North regions.
YAOUND?, Cameroon ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of USD 713,333 (393.6 million FCFA) from the Government of Japan to provide urgent food assistance to 22,600 vulnerable people in Cameroon¡¯s Far North and Adamawa regions.
DAKAR, Senegal ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that without urgent resources and action, the most vulnerable people in West and Central Africa are headed for yet another dire year. A staggering 55 million people in the region are expected to endure crisis levels of hunger, or worse, during the June¨CAugust 2026 lean season. Over 13 million children are also expected to suffer from malnutrition in 2026.
DAKAR, Senegal ¨C Amid a deepening hunger crisis across West and Central Africa, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has reached over 3.3 million of the most vulnerable people in West and Central Africa with emergency food and nutrition assistance between June and September 2025, thanks to critical funding from the European Union¡¯s (EU) Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations.
YAOUND?, Cameroon ¨C Half a million refugees and the most vulnerable Cameroonians risk being cut off from humanitarian food assistance in the coming weeks as resources reach critically low levels, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
DAKAR, Senegal ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) sounded the alarm today as persistent conflict, displacement, economic deterioration, and recurrent extreme weather in West and Central Africa are driving millions of people towards emergency levels of hunger (IPC4).
YAOUNDE ¨CThe Government of Cameroon and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcome a US$ 1 million contribution from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support 42,000 people affected by the 2024 floods in Cameroon's Far North region.
YAOUNDE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a Japanese Yen 200 million (approx. US$ 1.27 million) contribution from the Government of Japan to provide lifesaving food assistance to crisis-affected people across six regions in Cameroon
YAOUNDE ¨C Recent flooding in Cameroon has affected more than 400,000 people and upended lives and livelihoods, as the country grapples with acute food insecurity amid rising food prices, conflict, displacement, and climatic shocks.
YAOUNDE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a US$ 1 million contribution from the Government of the Republic of Korea to enhance food security and resilience for 1,500 smallholder farmers and their families in Cameroon¡¯s Far North region.
ROME ¨C As the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) responds to flood emergencies across the globe, the agency is calling for investment and concerted action to prepare vulnerable communities for more frequent extreme climate events that threaten to damage crops, displace communities and disrupt food systems.
DAKAR ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is ramping up its lifesaving food and nutrition assistance programme in West and Central Africa, targeting 7.3 million people during the ongoing June-August lean season ¨C when food stocks run out and hunger peaks. The programme ¨C which kicks off in June ¨C supports national governments¡¯ lean season response plans in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Nigeria.
YAOUNDE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a US$ 1.2 million contribution from the Government of Japan to support 36,200 crisis-affected people in Cameroon.
YAOUNDE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) are today warning that vital food assistance to refugees in Cameroon¡¯s Far North, Adamawa, East and North regions is at risk of grinding to a halt due to funding shortfalls.
DAKAR ¨C With a Euro 48.5 million contribution from the European Union (EU) received through its Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO), Â鶹ÊÓƵ was able to respond to the severe food crisis in eight countries of West and Central Africa during the 2023 hunger gap and beyond.
Yaound¨¦ / Bangui ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of USD $3.3 million (equivalent to 450 million Japanese Yen, or approximately 2 billion XAF) from the Government of Japan. This funding will be used to provide integrated food and nutrition assistance to people severely affected by ongoing crisis in Cameroon and Central African Republic.
YAOUNDE - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of EUR 4.2 million from the European Union (EU) through the EU's Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Department (ECHO) to strengthen Â鶹ÊÓƵ response to the emergency food needs of 598,000 people in the northwest and southwest regions of Cameroon. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is providing life-saving food assistance to more than 300,000 women, men and children affected by the conflict in both regions.
YAOUND? ¨C At the end of a week-long visit to Cameroon, Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan - Senior Special Adviser to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) on Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition - noted that enhanced and collective actions are urgently needed to eliminate the barriers to gender equality and to make Cameroon a more equitable place for girls and boys, women and men.
Yaound¨¦ ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomes a USD 1.2 million (JPY 150 million) contribution from the Government of Japan to provide food and nutrition assistance to over 74,600 children, women and men in the Far North, North, Adamawa, East, North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon.
ROME ¨C Further food ration cuts are imminent for refugees as humanitarian needs multiply around the world while funding struggles to keep pace, warns the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) on World Refugee Day. The somber warning comes as Â鶹ÊÓƵ has already been forced to significantly reduce rations to refugees across its operations.
ROME ¨C A timely US$ 3.5 million contribution from the European Union has helped the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) transport thousands of aid workers to several hard-to-reach locations across West and Central Africa, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ said today.
NDJAMENA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is providing emergency food assistance to about 100,000 newly-arrived Cameroonian refugees in Chad who are in dire need of humanitarian assistance after being forced to flee their homes due to inter-communal conflicts in north-eastern Cameroon.
Yaound¨¦ ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomes a USD 1.83 million (more than one billion FCFA) contribution from the Government of Japan to provide food and nutrition assistance to over 185,000 children, women and men in the Far North, North, Adamawa, East, North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon.
ROME ¨C Millions of refugees are looking to a future of uncertainty and hunger as the effects of the pandemic on aid budgets play out in funding shortages for emergency operations, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned ahead of World Refugee Day.
