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Cameroon
Consultant Lazare Atou gets caught up in war between Biya's barons

The consultant was told to stop managing the assets of three former state-owned companies just after he testified in an investigation into the conduct of the director general of the Port of Douala. [...]

Published on 02/09/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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The secretary general of the Cameroonian presidency Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh.

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Biya's right-hand man, General Ivo Desancio Yenwo, selected to protect the British embassy

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Accountancy firm Atou caught in rival clan crossfire

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Opposition leader Maurice Kamto denied entry to France

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Be it in Paris, Yaoundé or Casablanca, Cameroonian oligarch Victor Fotso's numerous beneficiaries are peppering the courts with battle after battle.

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Rivals manoeuvre to succeed Biya as RDPC leader

Several allies of the Cameroonian president are vying for the leadership of the ruling party and trying to steal a march on their rivals. But they are wary of being too open about their intentions, as the president has been quick in the past to sideline RDPC colleagues who were seen as too ambitious.

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Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Cameroon
Consultant Lazare Atou gets caught up in war between Biya's barons

Cameroon
Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh calls in favours to avoid judicial scrutiny

Cameroon
Ngoh Ngoh broadens his offensive on economy and finance ministries

Cameroon
Biya's right-hand man, General Ivo Desancio Yenwo, selected to protect the British embassy

Cameroon
Accountancy firm Atou caught in rival clan crossfire

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Port of Douala authority runs into new legal problems following Bolloré's departure

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Opposition leader Maurice Kamto denied entry to France

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