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Oil & gas 24/02/2021

Biya poised to buy Chadian oil pipeline stake as Deby battles with economic crisis

The Chad-Cameroon pipeline, which connects the Doba oil fields to the port of Kribi. ©Panapress/MaxPPP

SpotlightDiplomacy 18/02/2021

Biya deaf to calls for talks on Anglophone crisis

Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin met with Cameroonian President Paul Biya in Yaoundé at the end of January. ©Paul Biya/Facebook

Politics 17/02/2021

Biya's birthday prompts courtiers' one-upmanship

Paul Biya's birthday. ©Présidence de la République du Cameroun

Business 15/02/2021

With Atlantic Cement, Koné Dossongui wants to muscle in on Dangote's patch

Not content with building a cement works in Abidjan in partnership with China's Jiangsu Pengfei, Ivorian businessman Bernard Koné Dossongui's Atlantic is now planning to set up a factory in Douala, a stronghold of Nigerian giant Dangote Cement. [...]

Business 12/02/2021

Sky falls in for tycoon Mohamadou Dabo's business airline

The Cameroonian authorities have brought the curtain down on the operations of the business travel specialist Global-S-Aviation. And its founder, the vastly wealthy businessman Mohamadou Dabo, is facing prosecution over the contract to upgrade Garoua airport. [...]

Oil & gas 11/02/2021

New Age far from starting production on Etinde despite promise of new contract

Numerous financial and political obstacles are preventing New Age from beginning production on Etinde block, agreement of principle or not. [...]

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Cameroon's former water and energy minister Basile Kouna Atangana.

Politics 03/02/2021

Why Biya afforded former minister Kouna Atangana special treatment after corruption charges

Basile Kouna Atangana, who served in Cameroon's government until 2018, was jailed last year in connection with an anticorruption operation, but his legal woes are coming to an end. Here's why. [...]

Business 03/02/2021

Crackle on the line between telecoms sector's two leading ladies

The launch of the new Blue mobile telephone service by national telecommunications company Camtel has brought to a head the tensions between telecoms minister Minette Libom li Likeng, who is close to the presidency, and Camtel director general Judith Yah Sunday-Achidi, one of the wives of former prime minister Simon Achidi Achu, who hails from the anglophone north western region. [...]

An ExxonMobil FPSO off the coast Nigeria.

Running story Oil & gas

The oil companies' quiet retreat from the Gulf of Guinea

Long considered an oil Eldorado thanks to the presence within the region of Africa's two leading oil producers, Nigeria and Angola, the Gulf of Guinea is declining. The inexorable rundown in its output -few if any new discoveries have been made recently in Gabon, Cameroon or Equatorial Guinea - and the fall in oil prices brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic have speeded up the retreat from the region in which the oil majors have been engaged for some years already. [...]

Politics 27/01/2021

Victor Fotso's daughter seeks probe into circumstances of his death

After having fought bitterly over the will of the oligarch, who died in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 19 March 2020, the Fotso clan could be in for more turbulence. One of Victor Fotso's daughters has written to the public prosecutor in Paris, to complain about the circumstances in which he died. [...]

Mining 27/01/2021

The consultants who pulled Dan Gertler out of sanctions purgatory

To secure the licence, in the last days of the Trump administration, that allows him to conduct business for one year despite being subject to sanctions, the mining tycoon Dan Gerlter called on a new team of consultants. [...]

French businessman Michel Thierry Atangana, who spent 17 years in a Cameroonian prison.

Politics 26/01/2021

Biya and the Atangana affair billions

Michel Thierry Atangana, a French businessman of Cameroonian origin who spent 17 years behind bars in Cameroon, is battling Yaoundé to extract 57bn CFA francs (€86m) in compensation over a decades-old financing mechanism. [...]

Cameroonian businesswoman Adélaïde Ngalle-Miano.

Business Ports and airports 25/01/2021

Adélaïde Ngalle-Miano, the shadow queen of Douala port

A behind-the-scenes adviser to the director of Douala port, the Cameroonian businesswoman is the driving force behind the independent authority set up to take over from Bolloré. [...]

Politics 22/01/2021

Ministers ruled offside over FIFA boss's route to African Nations opening match

Government ministers clashed with the president's office over the route to be taken by the official convoy bringing FIFA chairman Gianni Infantino and his entourage to the opening match of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) between Cameroon and Zimbabwe in Yaounde on 16 January. [...]

Business Infrastructures 19/01/2021

AfDB gives scathing review of ECCAS efficacy Free

The African Development Bank has published a brutal assessment of way the Economic Community of Central African States, its partner on numerous infrastructure projects, is being run. [...]

Business 14/01/2021

Ngoh Ngoh takes charge of Camair privatisation

The new chairman of the Camair-Co board is Mauger Ayem, who is currently a technical advisor at the president's office. He is said to be close to its omnipotent secretary-general Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh. [...]

Inner circles Diplomacy 08/01/2021

Paul Biya surrounds himself with diplomat warriors to defend his regime

President Paul Biya likes to keep a strong hand in Cameroonian diplomacy and is now only willing to work with officials that he has personally known for decades and will protect him come what may. [...]

Business Infrastructures 08/01/2021

Lawyers and consultants flock to Brazzaville in search of infrastructure projects

Initially scheduled to take place in Brussels and then Paris, the CEMAC round table on public-private partnerships has finally taken place in Brazzaville, attracting a veritable horde of lawyers specialising in this domain. [...]

Cameroon's Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute.

Politics 07/01/2021

With no power over government, PM Ngute digs in heels

Though technically the highest-ranked minister, Joseph Dion Ngute is only the head of government in name and it is Paul Biya's advisors who manage the executive's day-to-day actions. [...]

Business 06/01/2021

Biya ready to sell Camair-Co

Although it may have managed to get back in the air with a plane hired from Ukraine, Camair-Co's future is sealed: the government is making plans to privatise 51% of the national carrier. [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron and his Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya.

Diplomacy 23/12/2020

Paul Biya plays hard to get with French ambassador

France's ambassador in Yaoundé used to meet the Cameroonian president on a regular basis. But not any more. Here's why. [...]

Business Mining 23/12/2020

Jeantet opens new 'green' OHADA desk

Green energy will be the theme of the first two seminars organised by Jeantet's brand new OHADA desk. [...]

Politics 21/12/2020

Paul Biya has deep pockets... and they're lined with ammo

As Cameroonian authorities prepare for a second round of negotiations with separatist leaders from the Anglophone West, the government awarded its army a hefty budget increase. [...]

Mining 18/12/2020

Sundance sets out its grievances against Brazzaville and Yaoundé over Nabeba-Mbalam iron ore

As it considers whether to go to arbitration with Congo and Cameroon over the unilateral decision to rescind its iron ore mining permit for Nabeba-Mbalam, Australia's Sundance Resources is claiming that the two states breached a series of agreements and did not inform them in time of their intentions. [...]

Tekever delivered several of its AR3 observation drone to the Nigerian Navy in 2020.

Business Defence 16/12/2020

Portuguese drone maker Tekever prospects in Abuja, Kinshasa, and Yaoundé

Tekever, building on its recent success in Nigeria where it has supplied surveillance drones, is stepping up its sales pitch there. It also hopes to conquer new markets in the DR Congo and Cameroon. [...]

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