Cameroon: Humanitarian Response Enables Safe Childbirth Amid Cameroon’s Catastrophic Floods

Fotokol, Far North Cameroon — “Our village was peaceful until these armed men appeared, sowing terror and death,” Aicha* told UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, recalling a night three years ago when her village was attacked.

“They slaughtered two men, right in front of me,” she said. “We fled, leaving everything behind.”

Aicha and their four children found safety at a displacement camp in Fotokol, a town in the Far North region of Cameroon. But last month, they were uprooted…