Yaounde – Cameroon raised the base salary for government workers and the military on Monday and entered negotiations with transport workers in an effort to head off potential social unrest after it cancelled fuel subsidies last week in a bid to cut costs.
The government announced it was ending subsidies on petrol, diesel and cooking gas last Monday, pushing up the price of petrol by 14 percent and diesel by 15 percent. Gas rose 8 percent.
“The monthly base salary of civilian and military personnel is, from the date of the signature of this decree, raised by 5 percent,” read the decision signed by President Paul Biya…
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