Kamdem did not appear in Marrakech, and he is yet to feature across two games in Morocco, but his presence at AFCON 2025 might, in some ways, come to symbolise the civil war that has ripped through Cameroonian football over the past 18 months.

Title contenders Ivory Coast and Cameroon could not separate throughout 90 minutes of football in a high profile group F match at the Stade de Marrakech

Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon settled for a 1–1 draw in their second Group F match at the AFCON, which leaves both sides on four points.

Karl Etta Eyong's early strike gives Cameroon victory over Gabon in their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Group F opener in Agadir.

When the Trump administration slashed foreign aid, it gutted a program that had reduced malaria deaths world wide. In northern Cameroon, health workers tried to protect children in one last rainy season.