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Cameroon: Humanitarian Needs | Africa (Cameroon official open data) 1 rows - 1 Africa country - 2026 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa TL;DR This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Cameroon as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo. About the source Source: Cameroon: Humanitarian Needs Publisher: OCHA Humanitarian… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-cameroon-humanitarian-needs-cf27ff2a.

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Cameroon: Humanitarian Needs | Africa (Cameroon official open data)

1 rows - 1 Africa country - 2026 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Cameroon as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

—Source: Cameroon: Humanitarian Needs
—Publisher: OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools)
—Resource: cmr_hpc_needs_api_2026.csv
—Format: CSV
—License: CC BY 4.0
—Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
`CMR`	1	2026	2026	`Cameroon`

Indicators or Resource Contents

—This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`source_record_id`	`string`	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	`a44d1e84-b362-4474-9f48-eba7be04c791:0`
`country_iso3`	`category`	ISO3 country code.	`CMR`
`country_name`	`category`	Country name.	`Cameroon`
`year`	`Int64`	Observation year.	`2026`
`description`	`string`	Source column.	`GHO Estimates`
`cluster`	`string`	Source column.	`ALL`
`population`	`int64`	Source column.	`29900000`
`in_need`	`int64`	Source column.	`2900000`
`targeted`	`int64`	Source column.	`1800000`
`source_period_start_year`	`Int64`	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	`2026`
`source_period_end_year`	`Int64`	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	`2026`
`source_period_label`	`category`	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	`2026`
`source_provider`	`category`	Publishing organization.	`OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools)`
`source_dataset`	`category`	Source package title.	`Cameroon: Humanitarian Needs`
`source_resource`	`category`	Source resource title.	`cmr_hpc_needs_api_2026.csv`
`source_package_id`	`category`	CKAN package UUID.	`aa08eb7c-2951-44d0-aac2-d6ed3b839ae0`
`source_resource_id`	`category`	CKAN resource UUID.	`a44d1e84-b362-4474-9f48-eba7be04c791`
`source_url`	`category`	Original source resource URL.	`https://data.humdata.org/dataset/aa08eb7c-2951-44d0-aac2-d6ed3b839ae0/re`
`license_id`	`category`	Source license identifier.	`cc-by`
`retrieved_at`	`category`	UTC retrieval timestamp.	`2026-08-25T16:58:39Z`

Usage

python

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-cameroon-humanitarian-needs-cf27ff2a")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

python

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "CMR"]

Work with indicators

python

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

bibtex

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_cameroon_cameroon_humanitarian_needs_cf27ff2a_2026,
  title        = {Cameroon: Humanitarian Needs | Africa (Cameroon official open data)},
  author       = {OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cameroon-humanitarian-needs},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-cameroon-humanitarian-needs-cf27ff2a}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

Provenance: ingested 2026-08-25 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/aa08eb7c-2951-44d0-aac2-d6ed3b839ae0/resource/a44d1e84-b362-4474-9f48-eba7be04c791/download/cmrhpcneedsapi2026.csv