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Nigeria Surrenders Oil-rich Bakassi to Cameroon

Bakassi Peni

The peninsula believed to hold significant amounts of crude oil deposits boost Cameroon’s declining economy and oil production up from the current 90,000 barrels per day.

Cameroon: Fishermen Buying Fish

Cameroon got its name from the Portuguese who, upon arriving on the coast in the 1400s, found seafood in such abundance they decided to call the main estuary Rio dos Camarões, or River of Prawns. Yet today the people of Cameroon import most of the seafood they consume, while local fishermen are going out of business.

CAN Ghana 2008: It’s African Nations Cup Trophy #6 for Egypt

African Nations Cup, Ghana Accra: The 2008 African Nations Cup came to a close in Accra, Ghana earlier today.
Egypt, the defending champions of the African Cup of Nations cup won the 2008 tournament by beating Cameroon 1-0. Egypt has a record of six win and the second back-to-back win. Egypt added the 2008 [...]

CAN2008: The Expensive Game, Where Talk is Cheap

African Cup of Nations 2008, Ghana: The defeat of the Ghana Black Stars by the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon with a scoreline of 1-0 in their favour has gone to further shatter to smithereens the idea of the “host-and-win” concept. When my Cameroon colleague told me that Cameroon would beat us—and that the home crowd [...]

African Cup of Nations Ghana 2008: View Video Highlights; Make your Predictions

African Cup of Nations, Ghana, Accra 2008: The ongoing African Cup of Nations enters the semi-finals stage on Thursday: Ghana v Cameroon, Semi-Final, 17:00 GMT; and Ivory Coast v Egypt, Semi-Final, 20:30 GMT.
These matches promise to be exciting and explosive encounters. The teams have demonstrated their staying power, will, and soccer mastery, but at [...]

Cameroon: Part of Forest Ecosystem

VOA:
In Cameroon, the pygmies have shared the dense equatorial forest for centuries with gorillas and other wildlife. One of Cameroon’s pygmy groups, the Baka, consists of semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers who live in the south and southeast. Today, loggers and poachers are driving them out of their homes, but groups defending indigenous peoples want them to be [...]

Cisco to invest $10mn on Africa

By Remmy Nweke. HANA Correspondent, Lagos, Nigeria
Cisco Systems is to invest $10 million to develop its network infrastructure on the continent.
According to the report, five African countries who stand to benefit from the initiative are Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Kenya.
Cisco, a global leader in networking is known to have transformed the way [...]