Cameroon Battles Cholera Outbreak As Floods Ravage Border Areas

Yaounde — Cameroon says a fresh wave of cholera outbreak provoked by ongoing floods in its northern border with Chad and Nigeria has killed at least 17 people and many more are feared dead in difficult-to-access villages within a week. An emergency meeting by government officials and relief agencies on Wednesday ordered the deployment of humanitarian workers to overcrowded hospitals, especially on the border with Nigeria.

Cameroon’s Public Health Ministry officials say several hundred fresh…