Paul Biya

Cameroon
Controversy reigns over funding of Commonwealth meeting

Cameroon's National Assembly is going through yet another financial imbroglio, this time over the funding of the 18th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth.

Palace Intrigues
Macky Sall, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Mahamat Idriss Déby, Abdelfattah Al-Sisi, Paul Biya, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Félix Tshisekedi, Umaro Sissoco Embalo

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Senegal Sall talks with his inner circle

Senegal, Congo, Chad, Egypt, Nigeria Paris summit attendees stay in city's finest hotels

DRC Tshisekedi's birthday Bentley

West Africa Indonesian president turns down ECOWAS summit invite

Cameroon
UAE Trade Center boss pushes Emirati businesses in Yaoundé

The Emirates are targeting Cameroon as a new investment destination for its companies. Walid Hareb Al Falahi, CEO of the UAE Trade Center, was in Yaoundé this month to try and forge business links there.

Palace Intrigues
Macky Sall, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, Emmanuel Macron

Intrigues big and small: every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

SenegalSocial crisis dents Macky Sall's international plans

CARTouadéra expected in Paris for financial summit

FranceSpeculation abounds over Macron's 'Mr. Africa'

Cameroon, Chad
ExxonMobil-Savannah: SNH boss Moudiki ups the ante in letter to Chadian oil minister

The head of Cameroon's Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures sent a scathing letter to Chad's oil minister. Since ExxonMobil's withdrawal from southern Chad, the battle between Savannah Energy and N'Djamena has rekindled a recurring conflict between Cameroon and the Chadian junta.

Cameroon
Business leaders divided over plan to merge employers' bodies

Private sector chiefs don't see eye to eye about the merging of two organisations representing their interests. Both camps are trying to rally support, right up to the highest echelons of state.

Palace Intrigues
Emmanuel Macron, Andry Rajoelina, Felix Tshisekedi, Marcel Niat Njifenji and Abakar Manany

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MadagascarMacron and Rajoelina in Parisian tête-à-tête

DRCFormer adviser 'JCK' invites himself along on Tshisekedi's Oyo trip

ChadAbakar Manany, a minister far from N'Djamena

CameroonSenate president Marcel Niat Njifenji holidays in Geneva

Cameroon
South Africa's MTN turns to Paul Biya in case against billionaire Baba Danpullo

Since September 2022, South African telephone company MTN has been in conflict with Baba Danpullo. In retaliation for the seizure of his assets in South Africa, the billionaire is trying to seize MTN's accounts in Cameroon and MTN hopes the president will put an end to the legal battle.

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Paul Biya, Kemi Seba and Nathalie Yamb

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Ivory Coast Ouattara to holiday in French Mougins residence

Cameroon Biya abandons knee surgery

France Army scours Kemi Seba and Nathalie Yamb's social networks

Cameroon, Chad
Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh battles it out with SNH boss Adolphe Moudiki over Savannah Energy affair

The Cameroonian government has been caught up in an internal crisis since the SNH bought a 10% stake in the company running the oil pipeline between Doba and Kribi. In a series of letters seen by African Intelligence, presidency secretary general Ngoh Ngoh and SNH boss Moudiki have been locked in a violent dispute over the operation.

Cameroon, Chad
ExxonMobil-Savannah: the behind-the-scenes story of Biya and Déby's feud

With N'Djamena in conflict with Savannah Energy, Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby pushed his Cameroonian counterpart not to legitimise the British junior's stake in the Doba-Kribi pipeline, which exports 100% of Chad's crude. In vain.

Cameroon
Yaoundé cancels visit from Canadian envoy to discuss Anglophone crisis

Ottawa will have to show a little more patience before attempting to initiate talks again about the Anglophone Crisis. Its assistant deputy minister for global affairs, Peter MacDougall, was expected in Cameroon at the end of March, but Yaoundé ended up cancelling at the last minute.

Cameroon
Farm equipment firm Cranbury Overseas tries to woo Paul Biya

Cranbury Overseas, a US-Nigerian company active in the agricultural sector, wants to expand its business in Cameroon. Its director, Anthony M. Martin, has written to President Paul Biya to extol the company's investment capacity.

Cameroon
Ottawa seeks to break deadlock in Anglophone mediation

Canada's deputy foreign minister Peter MacDougall is to visit Cameroon next week where he will have the difficult task of reviving Canada's flagging mediation in the country's Anglophone crisis.

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
Chevron in the clear to develop Yoyo and Yolanda fields

The US major Chevron will finally be able to work on exploiting the gas fields discovered by Noble Energy near the borders of Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon.

Central African Republic, Chad
Mahamat Idriss Déby expected in Bangui to signal grand reconciliation

The Chadian president Mahamat Idriss Déby, aka Kaka, will pay an official visit to his Central African counterpart Faustin-Archange Touadéra in Bangui this spring to signal the reconciliation between the two countries.