In a country where hunting wildlife for food is a centuries-old practice, the association with Ebola challenges habits.

In a country where hunting wildlife for food is a centuries-old practice, the association with Ebola challenges habits.

Elusive great apes threatened by farming and forest clearing are moving closer to humans – and their food.

New trade in lucrative ape skulls and bones stokes fears of annihilation of wild gorilla and chimpanzee populations.
![New poaching of great apes for skulls and limbs is further threatening dwindling populations [AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/20151494254827734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Despite strong presence of troops, Nigerian fighters continue to strike targets in northern Cameroon.

Widely used disposable plastic bags have become black-market gold after the government banned it earlier this year.
![Plastic waste piles up under a bridge in the capital of Cameroon, Yaounde [Eugene Nforngwa/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/201494105523751734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Inadequate funding holding back badly needed emergency assistance for refugees as malaria, dysentery claim lives.
![CAR refugees fetch water from a borehole at a camp in eastern Cameroon [Eugene Nforngwa/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014722172046398734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)