Vol 54 No 19 | CAMEROON A family divided 19th September 2013 Two weeks before the legislative and local elections on 30 September, the ruling Rassemblement démocratique du peuple camerounais (RDPC) has caused a shock by recruiting Aminatou Ahidjo, youngest...
Vol 54 No 15 | CAMEROON Ready or not, here they come 16th July 2013 The President finally reveals the date of the delayed general and local elections that were supposed to take place in July 2012 Twice postponed, the elections are now scheduled for 30 September, President Paul Biya announced on 15 July. Election timetables are set in law but it is the President...
Vol 54 No 15 | CAMEROON A season in Elecam 16th July 2013 The new voting system will not help electoral registration, which is now closed Cameroon is adopting biometric technology for its new electoral register and the upcoming polls now set for 30 September will be different from previous ones. President Paul Biya’s...
Vol 54 No 10 | CAMEROON Upper house of cards 10th May 2013 President Paul Biya has now appointed 30 Senators, bringing the new parliamentary upper house to its full complement of 100. Elections on 14 April – by an electoral...
Vol 54 No 7 | CAMEROON Biya's second house 29th March 2013 After 17 years, President Paul Biya has now decided to hold elections for a national senate on 14 April. The new body will have no real powers but...
Vol 54 No 2 | CAMEROON Après Biya fears 18th January 2013 After 30 years in in charge, the President seems as secure as ever. Yet worries are growing that his legacy will be a political vacuum In November, President Paul Biya was conspicuous by his absence from any of his supporters’ nationwide celebrations of his 30 years in power. In this way, he kept...
Vol 54 No 2 | CAMEROON Family bonds 18th January 2013 One person who is never spoken of as a successor to President Paul Biya is his son Franck Biya, who is not a member of the ruling...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 6 | CAMEROONCHINA Hanlong misses the Sundance deal deadline 4th April 2013 One of the longest and most problematic Chinese takeover sagas is finally drawing to a sorry end for Sichuan-based Hanlong Mining and Australia’s Sundance Resources. The main attraction...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 4 | CAMEROONVIETNAM Trouble on the line 11th February 2013 Technologie et Système d’Information/Korea Telelcom of South Korea has cried foul after Vietnam’s Viettel won Cameroon’s third mobile telephone licence in December 2012. TSI/KT claims that the tender...
Vol 53 No 16 | CAMEROON Biya swings the axe 3rd August 2012 The President was enraged by a massive fraud at the national airline but has been biding his time before taking his revenge In February 2010, Marafa Hamidou Yaya, then Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, confessed to the United States Ambassador, Janet E. Garvey, that he was worried. 'He half-joked,...