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Girls in Cameroon Have Breasts 'Ironed'

Emily Rauhala — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:39:11 CDT

Breast ironing. Yes, it's as painful as it sounds. But, according to a new Current documentary , as many one in four girls in Cameroon have had their breast buds burned with hot stones. Ironically, the painful wounds are meant to protect them; mothers believe the scars will keep men at...

Brit Gorilla Expert Murdered

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:40:00 CDT

A British gorilla expert died after her throat was slit while she was bound and gagged in her Cameroon home. Ymke Warren, 40, was apparently attacked by a man armed with a machete hiding in her attic. It's not certain if the killing occurred during a robbery or if she...

Other Natural Disasters as Weird as the Sinkhole

Kevin Spak — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:00:00 CDT

As the sinkhole that swallowed a three-story building in Guatemala Monday demonstrated, natural disasters can be really weird. The Daily Beast runs through some of the strangest natural catastrophes on record: The poisonous cloud: In 1986 in Cameroon, 1,700 people and 3,500 animals mysteriously dropped dead simultaneously. Scientists...

Scientists Find First Human Infected With Gorilla HIV

Nick McMaster — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:48:00 CDT

A woman from Cameroon living in Paris is the first human discovered to be infected with a form of HIV found in gorillas, HealthDay reports. The finding is yet another indication that the disease continues to mutate and to be transmitted by primates. The woman, 62, has not developed symptoms...

Pope Draws 60K in Cameroon

Kevin Spak — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:12:44 CDT

Roughly 60,000 people packed a soccer stadium in Yaounde, Cameroon, today to hear Pope Benedict XVI’s first giant African mass, the BBC reports. The pontiff used his sermon to warn the throngs of the dangers of urbanization and materialism. Earlier, Benedict met with Cameroon’s Muslim leaders, and said the...

Church Must Protect Africa's Poor: Pope

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:36:34 CDT

Pope Benedict XVI set down strategy for his church in Africa today, telling bishops to protect the traditional values of the African family and to spare the poor from the impact of globalization. The pontiff, beginning his first African pilgrimage in Cameroon, also said that the exuberant local African rites...

Kenya Airways Flight Crashes in Cameroon

Colleen Barry — Sat, 05 May 2007 19:00:00 CDT

A Kenya Airways plane with 114 aboard has disappeared and is believed to have crashed in southern Cameroon. The Kenyan Standard reports that the plane sent out an automated distress signal five minutes after takeoff, and villagers near the suspected crash site say they heard an explosion.