Esther Dang (born March 5, 1945) is a Cameroonian economist. She resigned as the director of the Cameroon National Investment company and stood as a presidential candidate.

Life

Dang was born in Mbalmayo in 1945. She began at University of Yaoundé in 1966 and proceeded until 1969 when she went to the

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where she continued to study economics. She graduated in 1971. Dang has a doctorate in economics from the Sorbonne. She was promoted by , who was the minister of industrial development, to lead the director general of the Cameroon National Investment Company on 1 October 1990. Owena and , who was the organisation's managing director, both died in 2004. She was the director general and she resigned from this position in an angry dispute. She was replaced by

Yaou Aïssatou Yaou Aïssatou (born 28 November 1951) is the Director General of Cameroon's National Investment Corporation (NIS). She was also Cameroon's first Minister of Women's Affairs. Early life Aïssatou is the daughter of the lamido of Tchéboa in Cam ...

who had been the minister for women. She was a candidate to be the president in Cameroon in October 2011. She was one of three women who stood as candidates. Another was Edith Kahbang Walla, but the main candidates were Paul Biya and

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. There was about 50 candidates and Paul Biya was re elected with a large majority in the

2011 Cameroonian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Cameroon on 9 October 2011. Incumbent President Paul Biya stood for another term after a constitutional amendment passed in 2008 eliminated term limits. Biya was re-elected with 78% of the vote. Background Som ...

. Dang came 11th with 0.33% of the vote. In 2016 Dang sent an open letter to the president after the

2016 Eséka train derailment On 21 October 2016, a Camrail inter-city passenger train travelling from Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé, to its largest city, Douala, derailed in Eséka, Centre Region. By 30 October 2016, the official number of casualties had reached 79 dead, ...

had caused dozens of deaths and blocked any transport between two of Cameroon's major cities. The letter asked many searching questions about the president's record and his plans for the future. The numerous questions included "Why do you refuse to develop Cameroon?" and "What in your opinion is the purpose of a Head of State?"

References

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