Vol 4 (AAC) No 12 | CAMEROONSOUTH KOREA Animated investors in the diamond mines 5th October 2011 C&K Mining has been operating in Cameroon since 2007 and has been working on production plans for the Mobilong and Limokoali diamond mines ever since. President Paul Biya signed a...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 5 | CAMEROONNIGERIACHINA Good neighbours 31st March 2011 Addax, a British-listed oil and gas company controlled by China’s Sinopec, may benefit from this month’s decision by the Nigerian and Cameroonian governments to collaborate in the Bakassi...
Vol 51 No 10 | CAMEROON Another corruption crisis 14th May 2010 A journalist investigating a top politician dies in gaol and the ensuing scandal damages President Biya’s claims to be Monsieur Propre – Mr Clean The death of journalist Germain Cyrille ‘Bibi’ Ngota Ngota in the notorious Kondengui maximum security prison has caused outrage in Cameroon and abroad and could prompt political change...
Vol 50 No 2 | CAMEROON Biya rejects the Ghana model 23rd January 2009 An independent commission to oversee elections turns out not to be independent after all Ghana's Electoral Commission organised an election in December that made Ghanaians proud. A similar commission for Cameroon has been resisted every step of the way by President Paul...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 12 | CAMEROONASIA Cameroon/Asia: New farmers from the East 19th October 2009 Asian companies have recently started negotiations to secure Cameroonian land to cultivate rice and other staples, but local civil society groups are already sounding warnings about the implications. At the end...
Vol 49 No 24 | CAMEROON Biya's grip 28th November 2008 The economy is faltering but the opposition is struggling and the dictator President is ill Twenty-six years in power do not explain the grip on Cameroon of Paul Biya and his ethnic clique. The tight circle of praise-singers who marked the President's 26th...
Vol 49 No 24 | CAMEROON Master political survivor 28th November 2008 The former first lady Germaine Ahidjo, widow of Cameroon's first President, recently admitted in a rare interview that her Muslim husband Ahmadou Ahidjo made mistakes during his 26...
Vol 49 No 23 | CAMEROONEQUATORIAL GUINEA A kidnapped colonel 14th November 2008 Who kidnapped a presidential nephew in Yaounde; and why the neighbours disagree so often A row has broken out between Cameroon and its neighbour Equatorial Guinea after the abduction on 7 October in Yaounde of Cipriano Nguema Mba, apparently by Cameroonian police...
Vol 49 No 16 | CAMEROON Fru Ndi's trial 1st August 2008 The 19 August murder trial of veteran oppositionist John Fru Ndi and 22 of his Social Democratic Front members will further sideline the leader of the SDF, Cameroon's...
Vol 49 No 16 | CAMEROONNIGERIA Bogged down 1st August 2008 Cameroonian security forces in the disputed oil-rich Bakassi peninsula are on maximum alert after fatal attacks by the Niger Delta Defence and Security Council. The NDDSC, a little-known,...