(Business in Cameroon) - Laying of the first stone of the second bridge which will connect Cameroon with Chad, through the towns Yagoua and Bongor, should take place in June 2018. This was revealed during a session of  the bilateral committee steering the project, recently held in Douala. The first bridge which connects Cameroon to Chad, it should be recalled, is the Nguéli bridge between Kousseri and Ndjamena.  

According to the committee, technical works are well advanced, however funding mobilization is still ongoing, from the European Union and the African Development Bank (AfDB) namely. 

The bridge between Yagoua and Bongor will cost about CFA92 billion, of which Cameroon’s and Chadian governments will contribute 58% and 48% respectively. This infrastructure is one of the major ongoing integration projects in the Cemac zone, apart from the project for the extension of Cameroon’s railway to Chad or the construction of the Sangmélina(Cameroon)-Ouesso( Congo) road.

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