A consortium of Canadian companies led by Sodevi International has expressed its interest, to the Minister of Sports and Physical Education Pierre Ismaël Bidoung Mkpatt, in the rehabilitation of the Douala Reunification Stadium, in the country's economic capital. This will precede the organisation of the African Cup of Nations football competition that Cameroon will host in 2019. This Canadian consortium, we learn officially, is sponsored by the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC), a state body whose mission is to lead to international opportunities for companies. CCC moreover proposes to ensure the necessary business plan to secure funding, in the event that the rehabilitation of Douala Reunification Stadium is awarded to the Canadian consortium.

Before the Canadians, there were Turkish and Moroccan companies who landed in Cameroon with construction projects for AfCON 2019 infrastructure. More discreet in this, Italian company Piccini has already won a contract for the construction of a 60,000-place stadium in Yaoundé, while a Chinese company has been awarded a contract to construct similar infrastructure in Douala.

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