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Spotlight | Cameroon
Saga of Biya and Société Générale sale nears completion

Finance Minister Louis-Paul Motaze in Yaoundé, December 2025.
Finance Minister Louis-Paul Motaze in Yaoundé, December 2025. © Kepseu/Xinhua via AFP
The state's takeover of the French bank's subsidiary is being financed through a loan contracted from BGFIBank. Behind the €190 million deal, the identity of the future buyer to whom the state will transfer the asset remains at the centre of an intense power struggle. [...]
Reading time 5 minutes Barbara Debout, Antoine Rolland
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