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Cameroon

Population: 16.7 million
GNI: $18100 million
Debt: $6100 million
Overview: The ruling Rassemblement Democratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC) campaigns for constitutional change and another term for President Paul Biya in 2011 as relations deteriorate with neighbouring Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea.

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  • Vol 49 No 23
  • 14/11/2008

A kidnapped colonel

Who kidnapped a presidential nephew in Yaounde; and why the neighbours disagree so often

  • Vol 49 No 16
  • 01/08/2008

Fru Ndi's trial

The 19 August murder trial of veteran oppositionist John Fru Ndi and 22 of his Social Democratic Front members will further sideline the leader of the SDF, Cameroon's last major opposition. Whether he is found guilty or not, the SDF will be damaged.

  • Vol 49 No 16
  • 01/08/2008

Bogged down

Cameroonian security forces in the disputed oil-rich Bakassi peninsula are on maximum alert after fatal attacks by the Niger Delta Defence and Security Council. The NDDSC, a little-known, self-styled Nigerian rebel group, opposes the 14 August final hando...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  • 18/07/2008

Not the plane truth

The investigation into how the state was tricked out of $40 million is shaking up Yaoundé's political elite

  • Vol 49 No 13
  • 20/06/2008

Slaughter on the border

More gruesome killings raise doubts about the August handover of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula

  • Vol 49 No 12
  • 06/06/2008

Biya's purge

The President is about to sack some selected ministers for corruption but that won’t end the problem

  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

Biya amendment

As international attention focused on Zimbabwe, Cameroon's President Paul Biya has quietly made plans for his own life presidency, largely free from foreign scrutiny. After nationwide protests by the opposition and civil society against the constitutio...

  • Vol 49 No 6
  • 14/03/2008

The people versus Biya

The President wants to go on for ever but recent protests show the people may not let him

  • Vol 49 No 6
  • 14/03/2008

The road to ruin

President Paul Biya's 25 years in power have been disastrous for what was once a rather prosperous state. His critics blame its decline on the excessive powers he wields and his budget management, including parts that are off limits to any form of scru...

  • Vol 48 No 25
  • 14/12/2007

A peninsula war

Tales of intrigue and treason surround the killing of 21 soldiers in the disputed Bakassi Peninsula

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