Triple whammy hits Cameroon exploration

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CAMEROON is reeling from a three-pronged pincer attack on the country made up of the Covid-19 pandemic, a simmering civil conflict in the hydrocarbon-rich south and the menace of Islamist terror insurgency in the northern border regions abutting Nigeria and Chad. "The security crisis has negatively impacted the effort to allocate open acreage due to investor fears," according to an in-house journal published by SNH, the state-owned oil company. A French-speaking oil producer, Cameroon is fighting separatist militia in the Anglophone Southwest and Northwest Regions, where exploration has been abandoned, and has pulled exploration staff away from the far north where the Islamist Boko Haram group hold sway.