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Cameroon Suspends Work Contracts; Foreign Workers There Illegally Must Leave

VOA | Officials in Cameroon suspended the work contracts of several thousand foreign workers, including Africans, Chinese and Europeans, and ordered them to obtain work permits and pay taxes within a month or leave the country. The Cameroon government said that only about 100 of more than 2,000 foreign workers …

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Olivier Ntcham: Swansea City confirm Cameroon midfielder’s exit – after his Samsunspor debut

BBC | Swansea City have confirmed the departure of midfielder Olivier Ntcham, a day after he made his debut for Turkish side Samsunspor. Ntcham, 27, had been left out of Swansea’s opening Championship fixtures after saying he did not want to play in their draw with Birmingham. The Cameroon international …

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Cameroon suffers another downgrade, this time by Standard and Poor’s

The Africa Report | The world’s leading credit rating agency has downgraded Cameroon’s sovereign rating by six points, a steeper downgrade than that by Moody’s two weeks earlier. Standard and Poor’s (S&P) downgraded Cameroon’s long- and short-term foreign currency sovereign rating by six notches on 8 August, from B-/B (highly speculative) to …

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Cameroon’s Corporate Tax Rate Ranks in Top 20 Globally

Tax Foundation | In a recent survey of 225 distinct regions for the year 2022, it was found that 142 regions have corporate tax rates that are 25 percent or less. Meanwhile, 118 of these jurisdictions impose tax rates that exceed 20 percent but don’t surpass 30 percent. The median …

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Uprooted and forgotten, Cameroon’s climate refugees living in despair

RFI | Aminatou Ibrahim scoops water from the floor of her seven square metre hut at the Dana camp site for internally displaced people in Maroua, in Cameroon’s Far North Region. It’s become a familiar routine for her. “Each time it rains our houses are flooded,” she says. Like more …

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