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- Vol 45 No 20
- 08/10/2004
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
- 08/08/2003
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
- 30/08/2002
Winning Biya mile
The government is set free by an election landslide and an opposition collapse
- Vol 43 No 17
- 30/08/2002
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
- 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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