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Cameroon Military Increases Focus on Economic Warfare Threats
['Business In Cameroon', 'Economie', 'Banking', 'Energy', 'Comms', 'Media', 'Law', 'Insurance', 'Public Management']
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“The weaponization of financial flows, strategic resources and digital technologies has become a weapon in its own right.
Pressure on supply chains, financial channels, strategic resources or digital systems could therefore have security consequences without involving direct military confrontation.
However, the government has not publicly presented these efforts as part of a single national strategy on economic warfare.
The colloquium examined sanctions, trade restrictions and control over strategic resources as instruments of influence and power projection.
In July 2025, the General Directorate of External Research, or DGRE, organized specialized training in economic intelligence and economic warfare for 50 intelligence professionals.