Working with tR is a lucrative venture. The unit is well-funded and widely believed to be ficed through an “off-budget” accou. As such, its revenue coulde indirectly from oilpaniudes several British firms such as one that struck a natural gas dealin 2018 worth £1.5 billion ($1.9 billion). Israelis are involved in the training,mand and supply of weapons to tR, although the corporate structures through which they operate are opaque. New soldiers are recruited for the unit every few years and are trained in batches of one to two thousand. After graduating, soldiers have been given Israeli-made assault rifles. One former BIR recruit, who graduated in 2015, says that about a hundred Israeli trainers spent three months in Cameroon training his cohort. The recruit says they told him they were each paid around $1,000 a day. The arrangement appears to be all the more profitable for those at the to... See full list on Cameroon’s close links with Israel stretch back far before Moas entered the scene. They can be traced to 1984 and a failed coup. President Biya, who had been in power for just two years at the time was nearly toppled by his own army. He reportedlysuspected that Cameroon’s former coloniser France had supported the attempted overthrow and thus looked for new partners to ensure his security. He first turned to Israeli businessman Meir Meyuhas, a former secret agent working for Israel, and later Meir’s son Sami. The father and son had an exclusive licensefrom Israel’s Ministry of Defence to negotiate arms deals with Cameroon. This particular arrangement ended in 2001, but the supply of Israeli arms into the country continued. Several sources told Efrat Lachter of Israel’s Channel 12 that the Meyuhas are still behind military exports to Cameroon. We were not able to reach the Meyuhas forment. According to various BI 2009 has received a brand-new fire... See full list on “General Erez Zuckerman was at the top,” said one former BIR soldier, who recalls hearing from colleagues that this man would replace Sivan around 2012. This account was confirmed by several others. “It’s like when a new president has taken power in [a] country the name was circulating without even you seeing the person,” he added. Zuckerman is a former brigadier general in the Israeli army. Unlike Sivan, his career did not end brilliantly. In the 2006 Lebanon War, his division made spectacular mistakes, leading him to resign in disgrace, saying “I have failed”. After quitting the army, his friends told reporters“he’ll probably run his family’s farm they own a herd of cattle”. Instead, the former Israelimander turned to tR. The former BIR soldier says Zuckerman visited each of Cameroon’s military bases to introduce himself. He recalls that he first saw the new general in the Bakassi region, near the border with Nigeria. “He came with a helicopter in 2012,” he said. “By th... See full list on According to Israeli human rights lawyerease transparency in Israel’s defence exports, the arrangement between tR and Israeli’s trainers is highly unusual. “It’s a very rare situation that Israel is approving someone to conduct a unit,” he says. Mack explains that Moas, Zuckerman and their colleagues would need formal licences from the Israeli government for their work in Cameroon. Mack says it’s unlikely they would circumvent this requirement. “Nobody is ready to violate [this rule] because it would be considered as a criminal security offence,” he says. “It’s like being a traitor…[Moas] is doing it with a license from the Israeli government for sure. He is not doing it on his own as a private citizen.” The Israeli Embassy in Yaoundé directed us to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel. Their spokesperson said they would notment, adding “we don’t have to give an explanation”. The Ministry of Defence refused to provide specific informat... See full list on 4ZOH7zPziB9l Jan 07, 2022 · Just three days before the Africa Cup of Nations is launched in Cameroon, vaccination centers are packed. Football fans are queueing to receive their jab here in Yaoundé, and for good reason the ... uT20JdCpIvgw The study area, located on the southwestern flank of Mt. Cameroon, is under-lain by basalts. The occurrence of groundwater in these rocks has been evaluated in order to determine their potentials as a source of water for a water bottling and soft drink plant. To achieve this, the constant separation traversing (CST) was used and the data qualitatively analyzed to determine the occurrence of ... tm9gkf7EK3v2 Jul 22, 2009 · Sanaga South lies off Kribi, more than 100 km south of Douala. The gas will most likely be fed to the power plant that AES Sonel is building at Kribi. Spoiling Game. For want of real oil perspectives of its own, Cameroon has been reduced to benefiting from the luck of its neighbors. B3RhlJSjF3ck
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