The actors of the cocoa/coffee sectors dispersed on 26 April in the regional capital of Eastern Cameroon, after two days of intense training on «the role of outreach workers in the information system of these two sectors: optimization and efficiency».

The Cotton Development Company (Sodecoton) is doing much better and with the uptrend of the international cotton price, the prospects are good. For the 2011 financial year, its net income after taxation was 5.166 billion CFA F against 1.082 billion in 2010 with a cotton and soya production (2010/11) of 161900 tons and 9682 tons respectively.

On Tuesday 24 April at the ‘Palais de l’Unité’, the Minister-Secretary General at the President's Office, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, representing the President of the Republic, received a delegation of Moroccan businessmen led by Mohamed Ketanni (photo), CEO of Attijariwafa Bank. It would be recalled that the ‘Société camerounaise de banque’ (SCB) had been taken over by this banking group.

  About four months after the foundation stone of the Kribi deep-water port was officially laid, the work is progressing satisfactorily on the Mboro site, about thirty km from Kribi.

  «In the current context, this 1994 law, through the decentralization, poverty reduction and anti-corruption process, no longer allows the conciliation of conflicting interests, guarantees the preservation or restoration of environmental services », explains Jean Jacques Zam, of the Network of Parliamentarians for the sustainable management of forest ecosystems of Central Africa (Repar-Cefdahac), an association which, together with more than 40 non-governmental organisations (NGO), agree that the 1994 forestry law has become obsolete.

  SICIM, the Italian company has been selected to carry out the works scheduled to adapt the Chad-Cameroon pipeline to the Lom-Pangar Dam project.

  With FAO support, the second phase of the CountrySTAT project returns to the country.

  "The State budget was satisfactorily implemented at the end of the 2011 fiscal year." This statement extracted from the 2011 budget implementation report might give the impression that the budgetary projections approved by Parliament, notably with regard the earnings, were fully achieved. And yet, this was not the case since their rate of achievement was thought to have peaked at 95%.

  On the instructions of the Head of State,........... , architect of the Cameroonian touch tablet for medical use dubbed «Cardiopad», recently received 20 million CFA F from the Prime Minister's Office as part of efforts to support the project.

  Illegal woodcutting in forests represents up to 90% of the entire forest exploitation activities in some countries and produces about 7500 billion CFA F of illegal revenues per annum. This was revealed by a World Bank report entitled «Justice for the forests» published on 20 March 2012.

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