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Cameroon

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  • Cameroon elections: President Biya was re-elected but frustrations against him and the system are mounting. Credit: Ludwig Tröller.
    CameroonPolitics

    I ran for president in Cameroon. Here’s what I learnt.

    By Akere T. Muna
    November 14, 2018
    Cameroon’s electoral system is deeply lopsided. Citizens will only stand for that so long. On 6 November, Paul Biya was inaugurated for the seventh ...
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  • At a camp for refugees in Minawao, Cameroon, near the border with Nigeria. Credit: OCHA/Ivo Brandau.
    CameroonNigeriaSociety

    Cameroon’s forced returns of Nigerian refugees leads to more tragedies

    By Philip Obaji Jr
    October 4, 2018
    Cameroon’s forced deportations are not just putting refugees in peril, but potentially undermining the fight against Boko Haram. On 29 July, a Cameroonian army ...
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  • Cameroon elections: In power since 1982, are President Paul Biya's days in office numbered? Credit: Alvise Forcellini.
    CameroonPolitics

    Cameroon elections: President Biya set for routine, if Pyrrhic, victory

    By Arran Elcoate
    September 27, 2018
    Rather than consolidating the president’s 36-year rule, the upcoming elections could heighten frustrations with it. When Cameroon votes in presidential elections on 7 October, ...
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  • Cameroon is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world and home to over 20 protected reserves, but this is being threatened by the Cameroon crisis. Credit: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR.
    CameroonPolitics

    Cameroon crisis threatens wildlife as thousands flee to protected areas

    By Amindeh Blaise Atabong
    July 12, 2018
    Many displaced by the conflict are fleeing to biodiversity hotspots, clearing forests to build homes and hunting endangered animals for survival. This article was ...
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  • President Paul Biya.
    CameroonPolitics

    Cameroon’s ghost president

    By Emmanuel Freudenthal
    April 17, 2018
    How Paul Biya has held onto power for over 35 years despite spending much of it abroad. On the podium for the World’s Longest-Serving ...
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  • Michel Thierry Atangana spent 17 years in jail in Cameroon based on false accusations.
    CameroonPolitics

    Cameroon: What one man’s 17-year ordeal tells us about Biya’s regime

    By Jeffrey Smith
    February 23, 2018
    Michel Atangana may be physically free, but like his country, he remains shackled in many ways. Michel Thierry Atangana is not a household name, ...
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  • Fuel being sold on the streets of Bamenda, Cameroon. Credit: Mbom Sixtus.
    CameroonEconomy

    Smuggling in fuel to fill demand in one of Africa’s biggest oil-producers

    By Mbom Sixtus
    February 5, 2018
    Ndian, the division responsible for 90% of Cameroon’s enormous oil output, does not have a single filling station. Driving the 13 km from Bambui ...
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  • CameroonPolitics

    Pushed to extremes: Cameroon’s escalating Anglophone crisis

    By Amindeh Blaise Atabong
    January 8, 2018
    As the crackdown continues, armed secessionist groups may be gaining in strength, support and resolve. Fifteen months back, when a group of Anglophone lawyers ...
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  • A poster of President Paul Biya in the city of Bamenda, in one of Cameroon's Anglophone regions. Credit: Carsten ten Brink.
    CameroonPolitics

    Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis is escalating. Here’s how it could be resolved.

    By Richard Moncrieff
    September 27, 2017
    Improving decentralisation countrywide would appeal to Anglophone protesters, but without seeming to give them special treatment. On 22 September, massive protests across Cameroon’s Anglophone ...
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  • Millions of people have been displaced by Boko Haram, and more are facing food insecurity. Credit: Espen Røst/Bistandsaktuelt.
    CameroonChadNigerNigeriaSociety

    “We lose entire communities in the blink of an eye and people do not seem to look.”

    By Hilary Matfess
    September 26, 2017
    The crisis in Lake Chad Basin is one of the most desperate, and neglected, in the world. It may not get the same level ...
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