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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 48 No 16
  •  3rd August 2007

No contest

Everyone thinks the government fixed the elections but that wasn't really necessary

  • Vol 47 No 18
  •  8th September 2006

Biya goes on and on

The President's inaction keeps Cameroon peaceful, but far from prosperous

  • Vol 47 No 4
  •  17th February 2006

The pink card

President Paul Biya's regime has survived much but until now, none of his opponents dared play the pink card. It all started when Catholic Archbishop Victor Tonye Bakot railed against homosexuality in a Christmas Day sermon and suggested gay sex was being...

  • Vol 46 No 20
  •  7th October 2005

Post haste

On 4 October the Post newspaper of Cameroon published a front-page story alleging corrupt links between Social Democratic Front leader Ni John Fru Ndi and President Paul Biya. The story, written by Post reporter Clovis Atatah, cites a forged document 'all...

  • Vol 45 No 22
  •  5th November 2004

Lacklustre and listless

President Biya wins a shoddy election while the opposition carps on the sidelines

  • Vol 45 No 20
  •  8th October 2004

Seven more years

There's little doubt that President Biya will win another seven-year term in the 11 October election

  • Vol 44 No 16
  •  8th August 2003

Money in the pipeline

Biya still looks like the only show in town but critics keep the loyalists on their toes

  • Vol 43 No 17
  •  30th August 2002

Winning Biya mile

The government is set free by an election landslide and an opposition collapse

  • Vol 43 No 17
  •  30th August 2002

President, people, parties

President Paul Biya has been in power since 1982, and the 1997 constitution allows him two more seven-year terms. He will almost certainly be the presidential candidate of the Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC). He is cunning,...

  • Vol 41 No 20
  •  13th October 2000

Pride of lions

Cameroon's extraordinary national football team, the Indomitable Lions, has done President Paul Biya some big favours. The Lions beat Nigeria's Super Eagles in Lagos to win the African Cup of Nations in February and won the Olympic tournament by beating S...

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