Equatorial Guinea Shifts Tone in Relations with Cameroon

Ever since Equatorial Guinea began pumping and exporting oil in 1991, its relations with neighbors in the six-member Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States, and particularly Cameroon have recurrently rippled between bitter and sour. Since 1994, Cameroonians residing in the new oil Eldorado have repeatedly complained of xenophobic assaults, arbitrary expulsions and routine confiscation of