With a population of 3 111 792 people, the Extreme (Far) North Region of Cameroon is the most populated of the ten regions of the country.

Though the most populated, this part of Cameroon is not favourable for agriculture as it is subjected to extreme dryness during the dry season and extreme floods during the rainy season. Thus, inhabitants of the region suffer from extreme hunger as a result of poor yields.

The region has eight months of extreme dryness and four months of extreme rain fall, says Kounai Robert, a youth animator in Mbiga-Zidim, a village in Mokolo subdivision of the Mayo Tsanaga Division of the Far North Region of Cameroon.

The four months of rain fall are characterized by floods as the region is surrounded by mountains that do not hold the rain, coupled with the fact that the whole region is a plain. The eight months of dry season our guide told us is characterized by extreme dryness...read more