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Cameroon's rival factions clash over every government initiative as end of Biya's reign looms

Cameroonian President Paul Biya. © CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

A recent U-turn on management of the Ebo forest is only the latest incident in unending clan warfare that is tearing Cameroon's government apart. [...]

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Ahmadou Ahidjo
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Ministers ruled offside over FIFA boss's route to African Nations opening match

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Cameroon's Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute.

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French investigation sends tremors through Abidjan's political class

Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Cameroon
Cameroon's rival factions clash over every government initiative as end of Biya's reign looms

Cameroon
Presidency's secretary general probes state property dealings

Cameroon
Business leaders divided over plan to merge employers' bodies

Cameroon, France
Historian Karine Ramondy and singer Blick Bassy to head remembrance commission

Cameroon
Novelist Calixthe Beyala takes Biya family to court in Paris

Spotlight | Cameroon, France
The saga of pan-African news channel Africa 24's lengthy demise

Cameroon
World Bank to launch new $538m infrastructure project in north despite past failures

Cameroon
Ngoh Ngoh broadens his offensive on economy and finance ministries

Cameroon
Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh brings economy and finance ministries under his thumb

Cameroon
Secessionist mediation attempts lead nowhere

Cameroon
Swiss mediators relaunch stalled peace talks with anglophone separatists

Cameroon
RDPC looks to post-Biya future ahead of party conference

Cameroon
Great North offers litmus test for future shape of Biya's RDPC

Cameroon, United States
Anglophone crisis exports itself to Washington

Cameroon
Is top Biya aide Ngoh Ngoh losing his influence?

Cameroon
Albert Kouinche, deprived of Victor Fotso and battling Orange Money, fights for his group's survival

Cameroon
Hayatou dynasty lets Garoua throne slip away

Cameroon
While rumours of his son's ambitions rage online, Paul Biya plots his succession

Spotlight | Cameroon
Biya deaf to calls for talks on Anglophone crisis

Cameroon
Biya's birthday prompts courtiers' one-upmanship

Cameroon
Ministers ruled offside over FIFA boss's route to African Nations opening match

Cameroon
Ngoh Ngoh takes charge of Camair privatisation

Inner circles | Cameroon
Paul Biya surrounds himself with diplomat warriors to defend his regime

Cameroon
With no power over government, PM Ngute digs in heels

Cameroon
The government tries to revive Douala bypass project with private sector financing

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

Cameroon
Yaoundé forecasts severe economic recession

Document | Cameroon
Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh weaponises presidential directives

Cameroon
LafargeHolcim: why Biya wants French head of local branch out

Cameroon
Rivals manoeuvre to succeed Biya as RDPC leader

Cameroon
Paul Biya's succession on life support

Spotlight | Cameroon
Anglophone crisis plays into hands of government hardliners

Spotlight | Cameroon
Riddle of who will take over from Biya the Sphinx

Cameroon
How Biya presides from Geneva, the country's eleventh region