Nigeria is committed to joining Cameroon in installing security within the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea as a means of ensuring permanent peace in the region, Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Cameroon told state-run Cameroon Radio Television Friday. The declaration follows a visit to Cameroon last May by Nigeria’s most senior military intelligence chief, Major Gen. Mohammat [...]

The Coordination and Follow-up Committee of Implementation of Priority Projects to be Realised in Bakassi Zone held an evaluation meeting yesterday. «All the contracts for priority development projects in Bakassi zone for 2009 have been awarded and most of the contractors have started executing them”. The President of the Coordination and Follow-up Committee of the [...]

Africa’s Gulf of Guinea nations lack the means to tackle mounting threats from piracy and kidnappings while the United States, a major buyer of their oil, is restricted in its efforts to help them.Here is a list of some of the attacks that have taken place in the Gulf, which stretches from Angola to the [...]

Les questions de sécurité maritime et le prochain sommet des principaux pays industrialisés et émergents ont été abordés, hier au palais de l’Unité, par le président Paul Biya et l’ambassadeur de France, Georges Serre. En une heure et vingt minutes, hier en fin de matinée au palais de l’Unité, le président Paul Biya a accordé [...]

Six expatriés employés d’une société liée au secteur pétrolier ont été enlevés samedi au Cameroun par un groupe armé au large de la péninsule de Bakassi (sud, frontière du Nigeria) et ont été libérés lundi matin, a déclaré le ministre de la communication camerounais.”Ils ont été libérés ce matin. Il s’agissait de quatre Philippins, un [...]

Gunmen attacked an oil supply vessel contracted to Royal Dutch Shell off Cameroon near the border with Nigeria on Saturday, kidnapping one Ukrainian and three Filipino crew, security sources said.Two security contractors said some 30 suspected Nigerian militants in speedboats attacked the MV Sil Tide in the early hours of Saturday morning around 14 km [...]