Yannick Kenné

Yannick Kenné

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Yannick Kenné is a Staff Writer for West and Central Africa at Mongabay. He is a Cameroonian journalist based in Yaoundé who is passionate about investigative journalism, and has embarked on reports and investigations on the environment, mining, human rights and sustainable development.

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Palm oil company uses armed forces, tear gas against protesting villagers in Cameroon

Victoria Schneider, Yannick Kenné 4 Apr 2025
Women living near the Socapalm plantation in Edéa take part in a demonstration against replanting in January 2025. Image courtesy of Félicité Ngo Bissou/AFRISE.

New allegations of abuse against oil palm giant Socfin in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 24 Mar 2025

Cameroon aims to double cacao, coffee production, yet also save forests

Yannick Kenné 14 Jan 2025
A woman dressed in bright blue and a smile crouches in a cabbage field holding up a large head of cabbage. Image courtesy Suhucam.

In Cameroon, forest and water source restoration offers sustainable solutions

Yannick Kenné 16 Sep 2024
Image de banniere : Travailleurs de PHC avec des gallons de pesticides dans la plantation de Yaligimba. Image © Luciana Téllez/Human Rights Watch

DRC communities turn up heat on EU lenders funding palm oil giant PHC

Yannick Kenné 12 Aug 2024
Christine Maïsali, a victim of a work accident on SOSUCAM's plantations, with her husband, Farwe Kossombele.

Labor abuse and work accidents on plantations of Cameroon’s largest sugar producer

Yannick Kenné 31 Jan 2024

What can solve growing conflicts between agricultural giants and communities in Cameroon?

Yannick Kenné 17 Jul 2023
Activist Emmanuel Elong at the foot of an ancestral tomb on the sacred site of Bayong Mbonjo. Photo by Yannick Kenné.

Palm oil giant hands over sacred community land for reforestation project

Yannick Kenné 4 May 2023
A mining pit transformed into an artificial lake after a mining company’s semi-mechanized operations. Image © Yannick Kenné.

Treacherous pits and lakes left in the wake of Cameroon’s abandoned mining sites

Yannick Kenné 24 Feb 2023
The dilapidated home of Ambroise Ondoa, local leader from Nkol-Bifouan, damaged by vibrations from the Febe village quarry. Image © Yannick Kenné.

Tense neighbors: Chinese quarry in Cameroon takes a toll on locals

Yannick Kenné 24 Jan 2023
A Gbaya farmer in Mbanti-Mbang, on land left unscathed by the agro-industrial project / Image © Yannick Kenné.

To replace Western food imports, Cameroon gives community lands to ‘no-name’ agro-industry

Yannick Kenné 1 Dec 2022
Saliou Hassana, a 17-year-old gold miner, extracting and collecting gold nuggets using mercury at Kambélé III. Image © Yannick Kenné.

About 72% of gold miners poisoned with mercury at artisanal mining sites in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 29 Nov 2022
Fishmongers in the Ndji village market get by with very little. Image by Yannick Kenné.

“Largest of its kind” dam in Cameroon faces backlash from unimpressed fishmongers

Yannick Kenné 13 Oct 2022

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An aerial view of mining operations run by KP Cement, Vantage Mining and others inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in October 2023. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.
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Saiga herd during a calving period. Image by Albert Salemgareyev and courtesy of the Association for the Conservation Biodiversity of Kazakhstan/Vera Voronova.
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