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Cameroon

  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Cameroon takes unusual step of insisting its president has not died

    Government says 91-year-old Paul Biya is alive and well in attempt to quell intense speculation about his whereabouts

    Paul Biya giving a speech in France in August this year
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    News in-depthAfrican politics
    Where is the next African coup?

    Emboldened generals are realising they are likely to face little effective resistance to putsch attempts

    Police in Geneva hold back people protesting against Cameroon’s president Paul Biya
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    Emerging markets
    If a country defaults and no one is around to notice it, does it matter?

    One-day SD

  • Friday, 11 June, 2021
    Education
    The push for mother-tongue teaching in Africa

    Lessons in local — rather than colonial — languages deliver results, educationalists say

    ‘They learn better in their first language, the language of the heart,’ says teacher Godfrey Chuo
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2019
    Cameroon separatist crisis prompts call for ‘national dialogue’

    President Biya intervenes in bloody linguistic conflict — but is criticised for speaking only in French

    Cameroon's President Paul Biya waves as he arrives for the 4th EU-Africa summit on April 2, 2014 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. African and European leaders opened crisis talks on the "terrifying" violence in the Central African Republic where peacekeepers have been unable to stop a deadly spiral of Christian-Muslim strife. AFP Photo/Thierry Charlier / AFP PHOTO / THIERRY CHARLIER
  • Friday, 15 March, 2019
    Press freedom
    FT joins campaign to highlight threats to press freedom

    The One Free Press Coalition puts focus on journalists jailed or attacked for their work

    FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2018, file photo, candles lit by activists protesting the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi are placed outside Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing. Both leaders are expected to attend the upcoming G20 summit in Buenos Aires. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
  • Monday, 22 October, 2018
    Paul Biya declared winner of Cameroon’s disputed presidential poll

    Veteran ruler grabs 71% of vote in election marred by violence and disruption

    Cameroon's President Paul Biya waves as he arrives for the 4th EU-Africa summit on April 2, 2014 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. African and European leaders opened crisis talks on the "terrifying" violence in the Central African Republic where peacekeepers have been unable to stop a deadly spiral of Christian-Muslim strife. AFP Photo/Thierry Charlier / AFP PHOTO / THIERRY CHARLIER
  • Thursday, 11 October, 2018
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The chaotic autumn of an African patriarch

    Bold international action is needed to halt civil war in Cameroon

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by NIC BOTHMA/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9916642ah) Cameroon President Paul Biya casts his ballot in the presidential elections at a polling station in the capital Yaounde, Cameroon, 07 October 2018. The incumbent President Paul Biya is Africa's oldest president who has been in power for 36 years. He faces eight candidates with 6.9 million registered voters. Relations between the government and marginalized anglophone separatists in the North West and South West of the country is a major issue threatening peace and stability in Cameroon. Cameroon presidential election, Yaounde - 07 Oct 2018
  • Wednesday, 10 October, 2018
    African politics
    Cameroon election dispute pushes country towards crisis

    Opposition leader declares victory over President Paul Biya ahead of official result

    Cameroon's incumbent President Paul Biya and his wife Chantal depart from a polling station after voting in the Bastos neighbourhood of Yaounde, on October 7, 2018, during Cameroon's presidential election. - Cameroonians began voting in crunch presidential polls, with octogenarian leader seeking a seventh term against a backdrop of unprecedented violence in the country's English-speaking regions. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP)ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP/Getty Images
  • Friday, 21 September, 2018
    World
    Cameroon violence worsens in power struggle over language

    English-speaking militants clash with security forces in the francophone-led country

    Demonstrators carry banners as they take part in a march voicing their opposition to independence or more autonomy for the Anglophone regions, in Douala, Cameroon October 1, 2017. The banners read: "I am not Francophone."(R), "I am not Anglophone" (L). REUTERS/Joel Kouam - RC1761F93B50
  • Wednesday, 1 November, 2017
    David Pilling
    Africa is not immune from secessionist sentiment

    It is a minor miracle that countries have kept to their borders as resentments simmer

    A southern Sudanese man dons a shirt made of the new national flag during the Republic of South Sudan's first national soccer match in the capital of Juba on Sunday, July 10, 2011. The game, played against Kenya, comes just one day after South Sudan declared its independence from the north following decades of costly civil war. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)
  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2017
    World
    Cameroon crackdown leaves at least 17 dead

    Witnesses report violent house raids in English-speaking regions

    A masked independence protester in the English-speaking city of Bamenda, Cameroon
  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2017
    beyondbricsCurrencies
    Central Africa must find its own solutions

    IMF help not enough without internal reform in six-nation bloc

    A view of a street near the Libreville bus station...A view of a street near the Libreville bus station February 14, 2012. REUTERS/Luc Gnago (GABON - Tags: SOCIETY CITYSPACE)
  • Thursday, 13 April, 2017
    Life & Arts
    What one meal a day looks like in the far north of Cameroon

    Chris de Bode’s photographs bear witness to a land blighted by drought

  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2017
    The FT ViewWorld
    Cameroon and the tumultuous autumn of an African patriarch

    Upheaval, Zimbabwe-style, could still be averted

    Pope Francis exchanges gifts with Cameroon's President Paul Biya during a private audience at the Vatican March 23, 2017. REUTERS/Vincenzo Pinto/pool
  • Friday, 3 March, 2017
    FT AlphavillePaul Murphy
    Bowleven, the former exploration and production company
  • Tuesday, 14 February, 2017
    World
    Footballer turns spotlight on Cameroon’s anglophone crisis

    Fabrice Ondoa highlights resentment of two English-speaking provinces

    Anti-government demonstrators block a road in Bamenda, Cameroon, December 8, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer - RTSVBFL
  • Friday, 27 January, 2017
    Life & Arts
    Postcard from . . . Cameroon

    Bamoun isn’t a tribal theatre for tourists, but a community devoted to its traditions

  • Tuesday, 10 January, 2017
    Tobacco
    Emerging economies buck trend for decline in smoking

    Tobacco groups seize opportunity as developing nations become better off

  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2016
    World
    Doctors Without Borders: Fighting back against hunger

    Médecins Sans Frontières provides life-saving care in devastated northern Cameroon

    Mora, Cameroon
  • Thursday, 3 November, 2016
    World
    Cameroon discontent simmers as Biya clings on

    While loyalists pray for ‘continuity’, more young people vent frustration

    Paul Biya, President of Cameroon addresses the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 22, 2016. / AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY        (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2016
    European companies
    Oil catapulted high as US stockpiles surprise

    A surprise drop in US oil inventories and supply disruption in Nigeria keep upward pressure

    FILE PHOTO: A pumpjack operates at the Inglewood Oil field in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2012. Oil extended losses below $60 a barrel amid speculation that OPEC’s biggest members will defend market share against U.S. shale producers. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
  • Thursday, 12 November, 2015
    Maggie Fick
    Echoes of Europe’s refugee crisis in north Nigeria

    Chaotic influx of people fleeing war shows the best and worst of humanity, writes Maggie Fick

    The city of Maiduguri has been targeted by militants from Boko Haram, the terror group that has over-run towns and villages north and east of Yola
  • Sunday, 25 October, 2015
    World
    Africa third terms: Who stays, who goes

    With elections looming, presidents watch outcome of Congo poll

  • Sunday, 25 October, 2015
    World
    Congo vote highlights African democracy

    Sunday’s poll closely watched as others consider term change

    (FILES) In this file picture taken on September 27, 2015 a man holds a placard reading "Congo is not the property of N'Guesso" during an opposition demonstration in Brazzaville . Tensions were rising sharply between youths and police in the southern districts of Brazzaville on October 20, 2015 , after the banning of an opposition rally ahead of the referendum on October 25, 2015 that could allow President Denis Sassou Nguesso to stand in 2016. AFP PHOTO / LAUDES MARTIAL MBONLaudes Martial Mbon/AFP/Getty Images
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