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Cameroon, Chad
Biya poised to buy Chadian oil pipeline stake as Deby battles with economic crisis

The Chad-Cameroon pipeline, which connects the Doba oil fields to the port of Kribi. © Panapress/MaxPPP

The Chadian government, which is mired in debt and badly affected by the Covid-19 crisis, wants to speed up the sale of part of its shares in the COTCO oil pipeline to Cameroonian state-owned oil company SNH. [...]

Published on 24/02/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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