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Oil was meant to bring hope and money to this sleepy fishing town in Cameroon, but Kribi’s residents say they can barely make ends meet.
The terminus for a 665-mile pipeline bringing oil from landlocked Chad to Cameroon, Kribi was full of expectations that wealth would trickle down from the $4 billion venture — one of Africa’s biggest infrastructure projects.
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