Cameroon

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Cameroon
Population:	20.4 mn.
GDP:	22.5 bn.
Debt:	0.8 bn.
Overview:	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 41 No 14
7th July 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
8th October 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. The ...

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