Under fire

Work is scheduled to start late this year on the controversial US$3.7 billion Chad-Cameroon pipeline following the World Bank's June decision to lend the project $193 million. Chad's Doba Basin could be producing oil by 2004; the pipeline will take the oil 1,100 kilometres to the Atlantic, at Kribi port in Cameroon, whose government would also profit.

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United States, Italy, Malaysia, French, Idriss Déby, Paul Biya, Sudan, Mohamed Abdullah Jar el Nabi, Uganda, Youssouf Togoïmi, Libyan, Gabon, Omar Bongo, Moammar el Gadaffi, Coordination de Mouvements Politiques et Armées de l'Oppositio

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