Keyword: Cameroon

A Humanitarian Disaster in the Making Along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline: Is Anyone Watching?

Picture: www.africafiles.org Brendan Schwartz and Valery Nodem - In 2000 Big Oil, the World Bank, and two corrupt dictators teamed up to launch the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline Project. Years on, the media attention is subsiding while the negative impacts of the pipeline worsen daily. Know Chad? If you’ve heard of Chad -- no, not the Bengals’ Ochocinco -- you probably haven’t heard anything good about it. Almost continuous war since independence and its involvement the Darfur conflict have gotten Chad nothing but bad press. One author...