Reshuffling The Deck?

A cabinet reshuffle in Cameroon at the end of June has seen Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni, who had been in place for five years, replaced, while nine other ministries were reshuffled. This political rearrangement by President Paul Biya, who has been in power since 1982, may not be as dramatic as it sounds, given that there are over sixty ministries and local media had been anticipating changes for the past year. In the event, the changes were relatively modest, as hopes in some quarters of a significant streamlining of the number of ministries have been dashed. Instead, it appears that

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