Cameroon: Cameroon arrests three senior officials for graft

Cameroon has detained three former senior officials and 13 others on corruption charges, a week after the International Monetary Fund warned that graft remained an obstacle to debt relief. "Judicial cases have been opened against a number of officials accused of embezzlement, corruption, forgery and use of forgeries," Deputy Prime Minister Ahmadou Ali, in charge of Justice, said in a statement late on Tuesday. The communique did not name those detained but sources at the state prosecutor's office said the three senior officials included the former general managers of Cameroon's state real estate company (SIC) and the state land loan fund (CFC).