CAMEROON - SAUDI ARABIA COOPERATION: ISSUES, PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the diplomatic cooperation between Cameroon and Saudi Arabia. This type of bilateral cooperation between Cameroon and this Emirate aims to improve the rapprochement of diplomatic cooperation between Africa with the Maghreb countries and other countries of the Arabian Gulf, notably that of Cameroon-Arab cooperation, which has started since 1966. This strengthens Cameroon's presence in the diverse universe of the Arab world. However, despite the upheavals, Cameroon and Saudi Arabia will have experienced diplomatic relations based on the Islamic religion. It is therefore the Islamic religion that has enabled Cameroon and Saudi Arabia to establish diplomatic relations, based on human factors, to expand and develop to commercial and human factors. But after the reestablishment of diplomatic relations broken down in 1973, following the war in Kippur, Cameroon and the Hebrew State decided to review their cooperation. Meanwhile, Arab countries in conflict with Israel needed the support of African countries for Arab causes. But this cooperation between Cameroon and Saudi Arabia has been reversed by the movement shaking the Arab world following the Yom Kippur war with the oil crisis of the 1980s. Thus, Cameroon Saudi Arabia cooperation will be affected when the Cameroon and the Hebrew State decide to review their cooperation. Therefore, the restoration of relations between Cameroon and the Hebrew State will provoke hostile reactions between Cameroon and Saudi Arabia, but Faced with the restoration of relations between Cameroon and the Hebrew State, Saudi Arabia is in a position of reconquest and ended up taking an interest in Cameroon and opened its diplomatic representation in Cameroon.