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Cameroon
Army frustrated over treatment of Israeli-supervised special forces defending Paul Biya's twilight years

Dissatisfaction is growing in the Cameroonian army as it finds itself in the front line of the fight against separatist groups in anglophone regions while the special forces defending the country's seats of power are given preferential treatment. [...]

Published on 26/06/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Cameroon
Israeli securocrat Eran Moas behind Augentic-IN Group's push for ID cards

To win the next contract for Cameroon's biometric identity cards, fledgling German company Augentic, in partnership with French firm IN Groupe, is relying on the intense lobbying of Israeli securocrat Eran Moas, an adviser to President Paul Biya's praetorian guard.

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Cameroon
Air force is big loser in defence spending

Faced with a substantial threat from Boko Haram and the Anglophone armed groups of Ambazonia, the ill-equipped Cameroonian air force is struggling to cope. Only a significant increase in its budget is likely to improve the situation.

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Cameroon
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.

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French President Emmanuel Macron and his Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya.

Spotlight | Cameroon
Torn over separatist question, Biya resumes talks

The president's chief of staff and other senior members of government are complicating any steps towards reconciliation with the Anglophone separatist movement by digging in their heels.

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Cameroon
Unable to travel, Biya turns his palace into a clinic

The president is confronted by protestors whenever he travels abroad for medical treatment. So now he gets his foreign doctors to treat him in Cameroon.

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Spotlight | Cameroon
The securocrats guiding Biya's decisions on Anglophone crisis

As the Cameroonian army struggles to find a way out of the crisis that has gripped the country for the past three year the president continues to rely on a small set of generals and military advisors.

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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 [.

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Spotlight | Cameroon
Multinationals slug it out over container terminal at docks of Douala

The standoff that began last year between the giants of maritime logistics which are in the running for the Douala container terminal concession has entered a critical phase. Currently held by Bollore and Moller-Maersk, the contract is up for renewal [.

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Cameroon
Who still gets through to the reclusive Paul Biya?

With the country at a standstill, some advisors are still managing to get close to the president and win his ear.

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Spotlight | West Africa
Regional DIY to counter Boko Haram

Boko Haram seems to be unstoppable in its ongoing destabilisation of north-eastern Nigeria. After the devastating attack in Baga on January 7, in which 2000 people lost their lives, the violent Islamist movement led by Abubakar Shekau – which is [.

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