(Business in Cameroon) - The first edition of the competition "Startupper of the Year" 2016, organised by the multinational oil company Total, will deliver its results in Cameroon on 15 March, we learn in an announcement published by the Cameroonian branch of the French oil group.

The final battle for this award organised in 34 African countries is going to be tough in Cameroon, looking at the finalists, whose list has just been published by the local branch of Total. Out of the 10 finalists, are are least three well known candidates.

They are Alain Nteff, winner of the Anzisha prize in 2014 and the Young Entrepreneur prize of the New York Africa Forum 2015 ; Olivier Guillaume Madiba, developper of Kiroo Games, the first video game editing studio in Central Africa ; and Christian Ngan, who for at least the past two years featured in the Choiseul list of "Africans leaders of tomorrow" thanks to his firm Madlyn Cazalis.

The three winners of this competition which aims at encouraging entrepreneurship in young people, we learn, will receive funding to enable them to develop the project presented, as well as backing from Total Cameroon.