Author: Ewang Johnson

Across Sub-Saharan Africa, small-scale farmers are already changing how they grow crops, manage water, raise livestock and diversify incomes in response to drought, erratic rainfall and rising temperatures. The more troubling finding from a new systematic review is that many of these adaptations can improve food security, yet the institutions needed to spread them remain…

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By ABS News Desk | August 4, 2026 YAOUNDÉ — The Trump administration has formally notified the United States Congress of plans to close the American Embassy branch office in Douala, Cameroon, ending Washington’s permanent diplomatic footprint in the country’s largest city and commercial nerve centre, according to separate notices sent to lawmakers late last week and obtained by the media. The Douala branch office, which employs 14 local staff members and no direct-hire American personnel, is one of five smaller U.S. diplomatic missions earmarked for closure. The others are the U.S. Embassy in Grenada, consulates in Nagoya, Japan, and…

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