Central Africa

Cameroon

Capital: Yaoundé
Head of state: Paul Biya
Head of government: Joseph Dion Ngute
U.S. chargé d’affaires: John G. Robinson

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Head of statePaul BiyaPresident of CameroonSince November 6, 1982 · 43 years, 11 months
Head of governmentJoseph Dion NgutePrime Minister of CameroonSince January 4, 2019 · 7 years, 9 months

U.S. mission

U.S. chargé d’affairesJohn G. RobinsonU.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Cameroon

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Cameroon in Washington

Ambassador to the U.S.Essomba EtoundiAmbassador of Cameroon to the United StatesSince June 27, 2016 · 10 years, 3 months

Reporting on Cameroon

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Central Africa Comes to Bangkok Needing the IMF: Congo Nears a Deal, Gabon Opens Talks and Cameroon’s 2027 Budget Hangs on a New Program

The six-nation CEMAC bloc and its central bank still owe the IMF action on foreign-exchange reserves, the repatriation of export earnings and staffing for the regional banking supervisor, Ecofin Agency reports from Bangkok.

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“The Point Is to Scare People”: Human Rights Watch Says U.S. Has Sent More Than 500 People to African Countries That Are Not Their Own

A 125-page report documents third-country deportations to Eswatini, South Sudan, Ghana, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and other states, with deportees shackled for up to 18 hours, detained without clear legal basis and in some cases sent on toward the persecution U.S. courts had shielded them from. The Supreme Court hears the policy in December.

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Leaders: UN Protocol list of heads of state and government (19 Sept. 2026), updated for later official appointments. U.S. diplomats: each U.S. embassy’s official website. Photos: licensed (public domain or Creative Commons) with credit.