Cameroon

Cameroon

Population: 19.5 million
GDP: $21800 million
Debt: $7.1% of GDP
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Helped by a partisan electoral commission and tactical acuity, 76-year-old President Paul Biya is confident of another victory against a divided opposition in national elections in 2011, but succession battles are looming.

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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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