Recent News, Events and Developments in Cameroon
Cameroon and Nigeria fought in 1994 and 1996 over the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula over which Cameroon ultimately secured sovereignty through an international court ruling. However in November 2007 Nigeria declared the Cameroon possession of the Bakassi peninsula as illegal.
In other recent developments Cameroon is facing internal strife owing to the secessionist Southern Cameroon National Council (SCNC) that emerged in the 1990?s but has been banned. In 1986 2,00 people died owing to the leak of poisonous gases that escaped from Lake Nyos.
Recent political events in Cameroon in 2008 saw the passage of a controversial constitutional amendment that enabled President Paul Biya to run for an unprecedented third term of office in 2011. Biya has been ruling Cameroon since 1982 already. This resulted in large-scale dissent among the opposition.
Owing to its principal exports of petroleum, cocoa, coffee and cotton, Cameroon was the most prosperous African country for over a quarter-century following independence. However the mid-1980?s saw a crippling decade-long recession. The Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF) signed recently with the IMF calls for greater macroeconomic planning, financial accountability and privatization to boost Cameroon?s economy.

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Barcelona demolish Bayern, Chelsea stun Liverpool - 09 Apr 2009
pass and the Cameroon striker duly slotted the ball past Hans-Jorg Butt

Majestic Barcelona stay six points clear of Real Madrid - 23 Mar 2009
from Henry. The Cameroon striker is top of the scorers' chart with 25 goals. Barca

Pope Benedict ends Africa trip - 23 Mar 2009
that he visited the west African state of Cameroon, where he met bishops from across... HIV infections.    On the plane to Cameroon the pope said condom use

Formal education lowers AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa - 23 Mar 2009
in the youngest group by up to 34 percent in Guinea, Malawi, Senegal, Cameroon

Vatican insiders declare the Pope a 'disaster' - 20 Mar 2009
of adults among Cameroon"s estimated 18.9 million population have the disease. Aids campaigners in Cameroon reacted strongly to the pope"s comments

Pirates hijack Greek cargo ship off Somali coast - 20 Mar 2009
of Guinea, off the coast of Cameroon and Nigeria.    Dozens of ships seized... the coast of Cameroon and killed its captain. Last month, another band of pirates

Language of music is certainly universal - 20 Mar 2009
, one of about 250 ethnic groups in Cameroon.  Fritz travelled

Music speaks universal language, new study confirms - 20 Mar 2009
in Cameroon. He travelled to the extreme north of the Mandara mountain ranges, where

Condoms not the answer to Africa's AIDS tragedy: Pope - 17 Mar 2009
Rome/Yaounde (Cameroon), March 17 (DPA) Pope Benedict XVI Tuesday courted... to Yaounde, Cameroon.    Benedict also appealed for international... to be held in Rome in the autumn, by delivering in Cameroon a document to bishops from

Commonwealth rights forum calls for ceasefire in Sri Lanka - 04 Mar 2009
members of the Council (Cameroon, Canada, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Ghana, India

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