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Cameroon
Population: 20.4 mn.
GDP: 22.5 bn.
Debt: 0.8 bn.
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President Paul Biya's victory in last October's presidential elections with 78% of the vote has further destabilised the chronically divided opposition ahead of this year's local and parliamentary elections, yet quiet discussions will start about his successor. One to watch is his nephew Louis-Paul Motaze.

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  • Vol 49 No 16
  •  1st August 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
  •  1st August 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
  •  18th July 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
  •  20th June 2008

Slaughter on the border

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

  • Vol 49 No 12
  •  6th June 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
  •  11th April 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 constitutional...

  • Vol 49 No 6
  •  14th March 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
  •  14th March 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 scrutin...

  • Vol 48 No 25
  •  14th December 2007

A peninsula war

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

  • Vol 48 No 25
  •  14th December 2007

Bank blow

A daring raid on two banks in Bata, Equatorial Guinea's commercial capital, on 5 December has prompted a sharp breach in relations with neighbouring Cameroon, an overhaul of national security and new questions about the spread of instability in an already...

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