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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 41 No 20
  • 13/10/2000

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...

  • Vol 41 No 14
  • 07/07/2000

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 oi...

  • Vol 40 No 20
  • 08/10/1999

Spinning a pipeline

As protests grow against the US$3.5 billion Chad-Cameroon pipeline (AC Vol 39 No 13), Africa Confidential has obtained two confidential memoranda showing the World Bank's efforts to orchestrate a public relations defence of the controversial project. T...

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