Victor Youmbi works for an NGO in Cameroon. Programme D’Animation des Quartiers operates in the shanty towns around Douala, educating the most socially excluded women, children and young people; finding them jobs and micro-credit.

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The combination of artificial borders, repressive leaders, and poverty creates great problems for African people seeking fairness and freedom. In the age of terrorism, religious zealotry adds dangerous fuel to the mix. Is violence in Nigeria an augury of the continent’s future?

From Cameroon, a passionate cry of protest against the global intellectual property system that holds African citizens in the chains of poverty.

For one informal gathering of the urban poor in Cameroon, long hours and empty stomachs are filled with animated discussion of violence in the Holy Land. Victor Youmbi, passing by, listens in.

Africa’s economic collapse and corruption mean that Europe’s efforts to stem immigration from the continent will remain futile until the underlying causes are addressed.

Battling power cuts to get onto the internet, our correspondent in Cameroon reports on the war in Iraq seen from an African point of view, and voices a plea, and a warning to Anglo-American belligerence.