Cameroon

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Cameroon
Population:	18.5 mn.
GNI, $ :	19.5 bn.
Debt:	2.6 bn.
Overview:	South Korean investors have jumped ahead of their counterparts with projects in mining, building s deep-water port at Kribi and planning for the expansion of national passenger and cargo railways.

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Vol 4 No 12
October 2011

Diamond dealers

Parliamentary investigations expose a cosy relationship between the South Korean government and the backers of a controversial diamond project

Vol 4 No 12
October 2011

Animated investors in the diamond mines

C&K Mining has been operating in Cameroon since 2007 and has been working on production plans for the Mobilong and Limokoali diamond mines ever since. President Paul Biya signed a decree on 17 December 2010 that allowed the company to complete the...

Vol 4 No 5
March 2011

Good neighbours

Addax, a British-listed oil and gas company controlled by China’s Sinopec, may benefit from this month’s decision by the Nigerian and Cameroonian governments to collaborate in the Bakassi Peninsula after resolving their long-standing dispute over the area...

Vol 2 No 12
October 2009

Cameroon/Asia: New farmers from the East

Asian companies have recently started negotiations to secure Cameroonian land to cultivate rice and other staples, but local civil society groups are already sounding warnings about the implications. At the end of September, the Cameroonian press and t...

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