There are no final or totally verifiable figures for the numbers of elephants slaughtered for their ivory in 2012. However, reports from Cameroon, DR Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic suggest a massive and continuing rise in killings

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As expected, incumbent President Paul Biya of the ruling Cameroons Peoples Democratic Party (CPDM) was proclaimed winner of the October 2011 Presidential elections. Though he and his ruling party may be basking in euphoria, the elections by and large were

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“Cameroon is Cameroon” President Paul Biya is on record as saying. In power for circa 29 years now, safe for a miracle the Presidential elections will from most indications make him a life President. A life President not by the

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At the dawn of the 1990s, so strong was the opposition to President Biya that there were few who would have bet he would survive as long as he has. His supporters may credit this to ‘political astuteness,’ but he

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Paul Biya – ‘officially’ in his late 70s – is one of the longest serving leaders in Africa and the world. After serving from the 60s in the upper echelons of the administrative apparatus of late President Ahmadou Ahidjo, Biya

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With Presidential polls billed for October 2011, Ajong Mbapndah of Pan African Visions explores the background to an election where the political tactics of the Arab Spring could be Influential. In 2007 when elections boycotted by the leading opposition where

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