Spotlight | Cameroon
Riddle of who will take over from Biya the Sphinx

Cameroon
Business leaders divided over plan to merge employers' bodies

Private sector chiefs don't see eye to eye about the merging of two organisations representing their interests. Both camps are trying to rally support, right up to the highest echelons of state.

Cameroon, France
Historian Karine Ramondy and singer Blick Bassy to head remembrance commission

The Cameroonian singer and the French academic are to co-chair a commission announced by Emmanuel Macron in Yaoundé in July. The group will start work a little behind schedule, without waiting for the opening of Cameroon's archives.

Palace Intrigues
Faustin-Archange Touadéra, Mohammed VI, Kandia Kamissoko Camara, André-Magnus Ekoumou

Intrigues big and small... Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

CAR Touadéra dispatches advisers for support in France

France/Morocco Moroccan ambassador to France in no hurry to leave

Ivory Coast Foreign ministry sees spies everywhere

Cameroon André-Magnus Ekoumou still has one foot in each port

Cameroon
Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh brings economy and finance ministries under his thumb

Cameroon's economy and finance ministers must now obtain the approval of the all-powerful presidency's secretary-general Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh for expenses exceeding €150,000. At first glance innocuous, the move is in fact revealing of a power tussle at the head of government.

Cameroon
2021 a bumper year for Yaoundé's Covid spending

There was no tailing off of Cameroon's spending on anti-Covid-19 measures in 2021.

Cameroon
RDPC looks to post-Biya future ahead of party conference

Elections to the local institutions of the ruling RDPC have now come to an end. The stakes are high, since those appointed to senior positions will be able to take part in the next party conference (the first since 2011), which could very well be decisive in terms of who succeeds Paul Biya.

Cameroon
Is top Biya aide Ngoh Ngoh losing his influence?

The position of the chief of staff of the president's office, who enjoys the support of first lady Chantal Biya, seems to be under threat. Until now, he has always managed to save his skin.

Cameroon
Jean-Claude Ayem Moger, Yaoundé's favourite troubleshooter

Jean-Claude Ayem Moger, Paul Biya's technical advisor, was just named to two key roles.

Cameroon
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.

Cameroon, France
Ambassador sent packing from Paris after falling out with long-serving bursar

Replaced by André-Magnus Ekoumou, Cameroon's ambassador to France Alfred Nguini only lasted 17 months in the job before falling foul of in-house politics.

Cameroon
Amid Covid-19 pandemic, revenue vs safety debate divides Cameroon government

The pandemic has led to the further isolation of the Cameroonian president, who now addresses the population only via social media, and has aggravated the war between government factions, who have to choose between closing bars and keeping alcohol tax revenue flowing.

Spotlight | Cameroon
Anglophone crisis plays into hands of government hardliners

The sudden flaring up in less than a fortnight of the latent security crisis in the north-west and south-west (‘No/So') anglophone regions, together with tensions generated by the 9 February elections, has upset the delicate balance achieved by President Paul [.

Cameroon
Maurice Kamto nurtures his ties with Washington

Present in Paris since early January, the Cameroonian opposition politician [...]

Cameroon
Dalami Mahaman launches All Must Go citizens' platform

On 1 December, Akéré Muna's political advisor, the Paris-based Cameroonian opposition figure Dalami Mahaman, launched the citizens' movement All Must [...]

Cameroon
Switzerland abandons mediation in anglophone west

Involved since June in mediating between the Cameroonian government and most of the separatist groups active in the anglophone west [...]

Cameroon
Jean-Marie Abouna causes ructions in RDPC

Officially scheduled for 9 February 2020, the parliamentary and local elections are causing a commotion within Paul Biya's Rassemblement démocratique [...]

Cameroon
Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh governs by correspondence

Addressed to ministers and heads of civil service departments alike, the letters from the president's secretary-general, Ferdinand Ngoh, which invariably [...]

Cameroon
Paul Biya's diplomatic inertia

Though surrounded by career diplomats, the president has been slow to appoint ambassadors to represent his country abroad.

Cameroon
Paul Biya resilient

In power since 1982, Paul Biya has in speech after [...]

Cameroon
Lawyers flock to defend Maurice Kamto

Arrested on 26 January and charged two weeks later on eight counts, including ‘rebellion', ‘insurrection' and ‘hostility towards the nation', [...]

Cameroon
Chantal Biya stamps her influence

The first lady is exploiting her power to secure appointments for her husband's ministers and collaborators. An investigation.

Cameroon
Biya snubs the electorate

In power since 1982, 85-year-old Paul Biya seems so assured [...]

Cameroon
Who can stop Paul Biya?

Though numerous, the challengers to the incumbent 85-year-old president are political novices.

Cameroon
Akere Muna, the future thorn in Biya's side

The leader of the NOW movement and former president of the bar could upstage the president in October's election. An exclusive investigation.

Cameroon
Philemon Yang’s new team members

Laurent Marie Esso and Alamine Ousmane Mey are two surprises amoing the new members of Prime Minister Philemon Yunji Yang’s government, announced on December 9.