Cameroon: Section 1 - Data

摘要

1.Governance - President Biya re-elected in 2018; parliamentary elections postponed to October 2019 and then further delayed to February 2020; President Biya's party maintained its majority with 139 seats 2.Economy - The International Monetary Fund expects Cameroonian growth to have dipped about 2.8 percent in 2020 amid global pandemic; economic growth should rebound in 2021 and grow at an average annual rate of 4.7 percent for the first half of the 2020s 3.Security - Cameroonian troops remain engaged in combatting cross-border activity by the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram; government held talks with Anglophone separatists in mid-2020, but the insurgency remains ongoing 4.Military Market Prospects - Defense budget growth has leveled off; Cameroon likely to maintain interest in counterinsurgency platforms given internal context and situation in neighboring countries.