Getting onboard: A new highway along the Nigeria-Cameroon border is helping women commuters and villagers all around

Women commuters along the Nigeria-Cameroon border are breathing a sigh of relief. Before  the construction of a cross-border road in the southeast of Nigeria and northwestern Cameroon, women struggled to get seats on public transport; drivers favored male passengers because they could help push stuck vehicles out of the mud. The Enugu-Bamenda Highway has put a stop to this gender discrimination and changed the lives of those on either side of the border in other ways too. […] Read More