the palm wine trade is an important economic activity for many tropical rural areas worldwide. in west africa, palm wine holds high sociocultural and traditional values. wine tappers often climb very tall trees with rudimentary equipment to harvest palm sap and risk severe injuries in the event of a fall. furthermore, the wine quickly ferments beyond the desired taste and alcohol content, reduc...

background: a recent study at the maroua provincial hospital revealed that hypertension in pregnancy was the first cause of maternal death, representing 17.5% of the 63 maternal deaths recorded between 2003 and 2005. knowing little about the causes, this study was to identify the possible risk factors for hypertensive disorders in pregnancy. methods: this case-control study was-done at the maro...

Most of the international boundaries in Africa were delimited in the last quarter of the 19 century. The adoption of the “Uttis possedis” principle of boundary maintenance by African states in 1963 solidified the boundary regimes. The state-centric policies in border management result in further conflicts, wars and litigation depriving of cross-border cooperation. Though attempts at economic co...

Ernest Tambo1,2* 1Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, Higher Institute of Public Health Sciences, Université des Montagnes, Bangangté, Cameroon 2Africa Disease Intelligence and Surveillance, Communication and Response (Africa DISCoR) Foundation, Yaoundé, Cameroon *Corresponding author: Ernest Tambo, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, Higher Institute of Public...

The endogean carabid genus Antireicheia Basilewsky, 1951, previously know from the eastern and southern Africa and Madagascar is, for the first time, reported west of the Congo basin. Four new species are described and illustrated: A. demirei sp. nov. (Cameroon: Mt. Oku), A. hintelmanni sp. nov. (Cameroon: Mt. Oku), A. deuvei sp. nov. (Cameroon: Mt. Bamboutos) and A. camerounensis sp. nov. (Cam...

On the basis of sex chromosome variation, three cytotypes of Simulium squamosum (Enderlein) (Diptera: Simuliidae) are described from Cameroon and Nigeria. Simulium squamosum A is the typical form as originally described by Vajime & Dunbar (1975) with chromosome I as the sex chromosome. It occurs throughout most of Cameroon and south-east Nigeria. A second cytotype, S. squamosum B, is described ...

1 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, 2 University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 3 National Committee for Leprosy, Buruli Ulcer, Yaws and Leishmaniasis Control, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 4 Bankim District Hospital, Bankim, Cameroon, 5 Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 6 FAIRMED Africa Regional Office, Yaou...

Department of Animal Biology, P.O.Box 67 Dschang, University of Dschang, Cameroon Institut of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Technical University of Munich, Biedersteiner strasser 29, 80802 munich, Germany Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, P.O.Box 24157 Douala, University of Douala, Cameroon Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, P.O.Box 812 Yaounde, University of Yaounde I, Came...