cameroon: Cameroon opens for business

A new stock exchange, designed to open up Cameroon to the modern world, is finally open after long delays. The only problem for Central Africa's first stock exchange is that no companies are yet quoted, so no-one can actually trade any shares. For several years Transparency International - an organisation that monitors corruption - rated Cameroon as one of the world's worst offenders. Many commentators here recognise that as a potential stumbling block for the new mechanism.