Cameroon

July 2007 | Risk Summary

The Biya government continues to make progress in its fight against corruption, improving its image both with the international community and with its own population. True, the recent discovery that the civil service was paying millions of dollars in benefits to 10,000 'fake' pensioners and 20,000 'ghost workers' - employees who had either died or were drawing a double salary - was shocking. However, the fact that it was unearthed and is now being dealt with is positive. Moreover, ruling party official Emmanuel Gerard Ondo Ndong has just been sentenced to 50 years imprisonment for a US$27mn fraud, with a

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