Vol 39 No 13 | CAMEROONCHAD Pipeline jitters 26th June 1998 There are still doubts about the huge plan to pump oil from Chad to the Atlantic Southern-based rebels and environmentalists are losing their battles toscupperPresidentIdrissDéby’ splanstoturnChadintoAfrica’ s latest oil emirate. The Déby plan, put together by a consortium of major oil companies, is to...
Vol 38 No 21 | CAMEROON Biya's bad joke 24th October 1997 The opposition’s boycott handed the ruling party a landslide It took the government three days to produce partial preliminary results for the presidential election of 12 October. The only surprise was the scale of the victory claimed...
Vol 38 No 20 | CAMEROON No show 10th October 1997 The three main parliamentary opposition parties are boycotting the 12 October presidential election because none can agree to work with the others. The parties are John Fru Ndi's...
Vol 38 No 15 | CAMEROON Deaths foretold 18th July 1997 Perhaps it's just a bizarre coincidence but some Cameroonians have noticed that personalities close to the President have died just before multiparty elections. In 1992, the dead included...
Vol 38 No 13 | CAMEROON Biya election 20th June 1997 The President's team arranged his Assembly majority; next comes his own election President Paul Biya and his Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC) look likely to get away with another flawed election. The RDPC claims to have won 109 of...
Vol 37 No 22 | CAMEROON Election enterprise 1st November 1996 Biya faces two strong opponents but is confident he can outplay them Later this month, Paul Biya will stand for nomination as presidential candidate at the congress of the ruling Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camérounais. No one seriously doubts that...
Vol 37 No 16 | CAMEROON Biya good boy 2nd August 1996 More tactician than playboy, the President has a talent for confusing his opponents Paul Biya's glamorous young wife, Francesco Smalto suits and frequent private trips to Europe may suggest a political playboy. Yet the President is a considerable tactician and has...
Vol 37 No 5 | CAMEROON Coup down under 1st March 1996 A bungled attempt to launch a coup in Cameroon has ended in an Australian court. Between July and November 1994, Geoffrey Vernon Hughes, a businessman, tried to buy...