Bakassi lies in the west of the bight of Biafra and according to one report is rich in oil. Thought by some to be originally a part of Nigeria, in 2007 Bakassi was given to Cameroon by the as called international court of justice.
Cameroon was overseen by the u.n. from the early years of the second world war. The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon, an anti-colonial party was established in 1948 but key leaders became victims of various charges, and meetings became illegal. Key people are believed to have been made exiles, but in 1956, a UPC statement, believed to have involved the press, called for the reunification of French and English Cameroon as an independent state. Five members are reported to have been killed in the years that followed.
An attempt to nominate a candidate for the UPC was made in 2004 but was rejected by an as called supreme court.
According to official figures, Cameroon’s estimated income from gross domestic product in 2018 was around $95 billion.