Westend Farms inaugurates its Ndokoa integrated pork production and commercialization center
On October 20, 2021, Minister of Livestock, Dr. Taiga officially inaugurated the integrated pork production and marketing center built by Westend Farms,...
Cameroon: BEAC forecasts revival of sales and production in the logging sector
After a challenging environment in 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the recovery observed in Cameroon's economic landscape since the beginning of...
Universal Health Coverage: SUCAM could launch pilot phase in H1-2022
The pilot phase of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC), expected in Cameroon since 2018, will finally start in the first half of 2022. This timeline...
Cameroonian-born John Mokom takes over the management of Standard Chartered Côte d'Ivoire
Cameroonian-born John Ngu Mokom was recently appointed Managing director of Standard Chartered Bank Côte d'Ivoire, the only fully digital bank in the...
OAPI: Dismissed director-general Denis L. Bohoussou contests his suspension
Denis L. Bohossou (Photo) recently issued a release contesting his suspension as Director-General of the Yaounde-based African Intellectual Property...
CEMAC: Cameroon disburses XAF101.9 bln as installments for 2016-2021 & 2018-2023 bonds
Cameroon recently disbursed the last installment of its "ECMR 5.5% Net 2016-2021." According to the communique published on October 20, 2021, by the Bank...
EDF Pulse Africa 2021: Energy Clever to represent Cameroon at the grand final in Paris
Energy Clever, the startup founded by Cameroonian electrical engineer Naomi Dinamona (photo) will represent Cameroon at the grand final of the EDF Pulse...
Cameroon: EU estimates national tree cover losses to be 3 times the size of Yaoundé yearly
In Cameroon, the tree cover loss has been increasing over the past ten years, according to a recent document published by the European Union delegation....
Germany currently has a XAF215.4 bln project portfolio in Cameroon
Currently, the Federal Republic of Germany’s project portfolio in Cameroon is about €329.1 million or XAF215.4 billion. The figure was revealed by...
Cameroon: Crude oil sales forecasted to drop in Q4-2021 despite the rise in production
Between October and December 2021, three CEMAC countries are expected to contribute to the rise in the region’s oil production. According to the quarterly...
Cameroon: Perenco appoints a new MD for its local subsidiary
Armel Simondin is the new Managing Director of Franco-British oil company Perenco’s subsidiary in Cameroon, according to National Hydrocarbons Corporation...
Cameroon: BEAC forecasts drop in cocoa production in the 2021/2022 season
Cameroon could see its cocoa production drop during the 2021-2022 campaign, the BEAC reports in its recent quarterly business survey. “The...
SONARA: Cameroon expects restructuring plan with oil traders after recent agreement with local banks
After the restructuring of the debt owed by state refinery SONARA to nine local banks last October 15, the Cameroonian government hopes it can reach a...
Cameroon: BEAC expects palm oil production to drop in Q4-2021
In Q4-2021, palm oil production would drop in Cameroon, according to the quarterly business survey “ test prévisionnel de conjoncture” recently published...
Slow at first, sales of Arthur Zang’s Cardiopad is rising at an exponential rate in Cameroon
Since 2016 when it launched the commercialization of Cardiopad, the first African medical tablet, Himore Medical has equipped 267 health centers in...
Cameroon: Chamber of Commerce CCIMA announces a Brazilian economic mission for next Oct 25-30
In the framework of an economic mission, a group of Brazilian economic operators will sojourn in Cameroon next October 25-30, according to correspondence...
OAPI: DG Denis Loukou Bohoussou suspended following mismanagement and corruption accusations
On October 14, 2021, Alimatou Shadiya Assouman, Benin's Minister of Industry and Trade and also Chairwoman of the board of directors of the Yaounde-based...
Sonara: Government officializes repayment plan for XAF261.4 bln owed to 9 local banks
Today October 15, in Yaoundé, Minister of Finance Louis Paul Motaze is presiding over the officialization of a repayment plan for a XAF261.4 billion debt...
CEMAC: Exchange market BVMAC announces the creation of a stock academy in Douala
Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon and host town of the Central African Stock Exchange (BVMAC), could soon host a stock trading academy. This was...
Franco-Cameroonian Bernard Ntchuisseu Njandja launches luxury champagne brand in Paris
Through his Paris-based company “Champagnes Bernard Njandja”, Franco-Cameroonian IT consultant Bernard Ntchuisseu Njandja recently launched his...
Douala-Yaoundé: Traffic resumes after a 1-day blockade caused by road workers’ strike
Today October 14, hundreds of vehicles blocked at the entrance of Douala (the economic capital) since yesterday can now resume their journey to Yaoundé...
SABC group reopens its Loum distribution center closed 23 years ago
Société Anonyme des brasseries du Cameroun (SABC), leader of the Cameroonian brewing maket, inaugurated its Loum distribution center in the Littoral...
Fisheries: a Japan-backed XAF6.5 bln project still just 9% completed since 2017
On October 8, 2021, after an audience with Minister of Livestock, Fisheries, and Animal Husbandry Dr. Taïga, Japan’s ambassador to Cameroon Tsutomu Osawa...
World Bank and Cameroon ink 3 loan agreements totaling XAF236.5 bln for development projects
Yesterday October 12, in Yaounde, the World Bank Group and the government of Cameroon signed three loan agreements totaling close to XAF236.5 billion, the...
CEMAC: COSUMAF plans to introduce green, sustainable, and social bonds on the BVMAC
On October 11, in Douala, the Central African Financial Market Oversight Commission (COSUMAF) expressed its ambition to introduce green, sustainable, and...
Mineral water producer SEMC posts XAF729 mln net profit for H1-2021 after net losses in 2020
Société des Eaux minérales du Cameroun (SEMC), SABC group’s arm in the water segment in Cameroon, posts a XAF729 million net profit for the first half of...
Douala: Carrefour postpones the inauguration of its first soft discount store Supeco to Q4-2021
Initially scheduled for the end of 2020, the inauguration of the first soft discount store Supeco in Douala is postponed to the last quarter of...
Addax Petroleum: Qu Bin becomes new CEO, replacing French native Roger Beaumont
Qu Bin, a Chinese citizen who was formerly technical manager for Addax Petroleum, was recently appointed chief executive officer of this Cameroonian...
Huawei energy digitalization. What is all about? (by DU YIN, Huawei Cameroon General Manager)
Climate changes and their impact on life and the environment are more and more damaging. Amongst the solutions, Huawei energy digitalization. What is all...
Cameroonian fintech Ejara raises over XAF1 bln to boost operations
Douala-based fintech Ejara announced the successful completion of a US$2 million (over XAF1 billion) fundraising operation it launched. Thanks to the...
Nachtigal hydroelectric project: Bouygues delivers the transmission line component
Nachtigal Hydro-Power Company (NHPC), the company in charge of the Nachtigal hydroelectric project (420 MW), informs that the transmission line component...
Despite the presentation of car prototype DTA-001, its mass production is still uncertain
On October 6, 2021, the public that was expecting a car fully designed and assembled in Cameroon, as promised by diasporan tech center Innotech Lab, left...
Cameroon’s govt has ordered the closure of illegal security companies
Road Fund disbursed XAF105 bln to maintain roads in 2020, the MINTP says
MINSANTE inaugurates VIHeillir to reduce the mortality of over-50 HIV patients
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