(Business in Cameroon) - Located in the Southern region and long of 98.8 km, the Djoum-Mintom road, first phase in the construction of the Yaoundé-Brazzaville on Cameroonian soil, will soon be delivered according to information from the Ministry of Civil Engineering.

“Basic contract works are 100% completed”, Mintp indicates. Which means, according to this Ministry, that there is already a road which pavement structure is made of a foundation of coarse laterite 30 cm deep and a base layer in crushed gravel of 20 cm and the surfacing in asphalt concrete with a depth of 5 cm. But there still works underway on the project site. They are for the related constructions which are the construction of the Djoum roads covering 4.1 km and Mintom roads of 2 km thus a total of 6.1km, the opening of 57.4 km of track roads, the construction of a fence of 1,573 m, the construction of 22 toilets, 15 boreholes, 10 wells, a tollbooth, a weighbridge including the supply of an axle-weighing system.

In order to connect Congo to Cameroon, the African Bank of Development has taken the commitment since 2009 in the achievement of this corridor long of 504.5 km. This road project has a structuring aspect for the region as it will be one of the main links of an alternative corridor to the Windhoek-Tripoli one to link the Central African Republic to Cameroon, Gabon to the south and ensure the interconnection with the Brazzaville-Pointe-Noire road to Congo.

Sylvain Andzongo