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Equatorial Guinea: Country Re-Opens Border With Cameroon
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The Post (Buea)
16 May 2008
Posted to the web 16 May 2008
Francis Tim Mbom
The government of Equatorial Guinea has re-opened its boarder with Cameroon following its closure for over a month.
A security guard, Roger Meh, alongside police officials told The Post on Tuesday, May 13, that some boats, loaded with tons of food for sale left the Bota Wharf in Limbe, late Monday, May 12, for Equatorial Guinea.
Equatorial Guinean President, Theodoro Obiang Nguema, sealed his borders, preventing the entry of any goods and persons from Cameroon.The security guard said the next trip by Cameroonian traders will take off on Sunday evening.
Cameroonian traders have discovered that supplying food to Equatorial Guinea is lucrative business. But they have had to endure extortions and brutality at the Equatorial Guinean border.
Before Equatorial Guinea closed its borders recently, hundreds of Cameroonian had been manhandled and repatriated to Cameroon following a reported robbery in which some Cameroonians were implicated.
The incident provoked widespread anger and attacks by mostly students in Buea. The incident had also caused Equato-Guinean traders to abandon their goods in Douala. Besides, the relationship between the two countries had gone sour, with many Cameroonians suggesting that the Cameroonian consular office in Malabo be closed, considering the continuous poor treatment meted on Cameroonians.
Obiang Nguema reopened the borders prior to parliamentary and council elections that took place in his country on May 4.Reports about the elections hold that Obiang's party, the PDGE, won 98 out of the 100 parliamentary seats.
Reports held that the lone outstanding opposition following the Convergence for Social Democracy, CPDS, had declared that Obiang's party rigged the elections.
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Obiang has been president for 29 years.
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