Cameroon: EDF counts on the World Bank to finance the Kikot dam
Électricité de France (EDF), the company piloting the Kikot dam project on the Sanaga River, is counting on the World Bank to raise the financial...
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Cameroon: Exports improved by 5.4% YoY in Q1 2022
The total export volume from Cameroon to the international market grew by 5.4% year-on-year between January and March 2022. The national stats agency...
Imported food inflation hovered around 20% in Yaoundé in August 2022
Inflation reached 7.4% in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital, in August this year, a recent INS report revealed. This rate was driven mainly by imported food...
Cameroon: Banking and Communication activities supported service sector improvement in Q1 2022
The service sector in Cameroon performed well during the first three months of 2022, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS). The...
Food prices went up 14% YoY in August 2022 in Douala
Prices of food items followed an upward trend throughout August this year in the Cameroonian economic capital -Douala, a report from the National Stats...
World Bank grants Cameroon CFA200bn+ loan for local development projects
The World Bank announced it has approved a loan of $300 million (more than CFA200 billion) to help Cameroon implement local development projects. In...
Cameroonian dealer of French Sanofi becomes liquidated
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi released a legal statement on Monday announcing the liquidation of its Cameroonian subsidiary. Cameroonian Daniel...
Cameroon: Water Minister agrees to provide CFA500mln, Camwater staff waives the strike
The personnel of Camwater, the Cameroonian water company, will receive CFA500 million as part of the social debt owed to them by the state. The good news...
Cameroon seeks to bring local rice production to 750,000 tons by 2030
The Cameroonian government is currently working on a strategy to bring local rice production to 750,000 tons by 2030. The Minister of Agriculture, Gabriel...
Cameroon issued a CFA25 billion 7-year bond on the BEAC market on Sep. 28
Yesterday September 28, the Cameroonian government issued a 7-year fungible treasury bond to raise CFA25 billion on the Beac public security...
Cameroon: Rising fertilizer prices slowed food crop production in Q1 2022
The growth rate of food crop production in Cameroon fell by 0.4% YoY in the first quarter of 2022, from 2.5% to 2.1%. According to the National Institute...
Cameroon: Financial partners support local SMEs with CFA14bn
The Cameroonian Minister of Economy, Alamine Ousmane Mey, signed a partnership agreement last September 27, 2022, with the UNDP Resident Representative in...
Cameroon could reduce dependence on imports by 32% in 2043
Cameroon could reduce its dependence on food imports (rice, wheat, fish, malt, and beet sugar...) by 31.7% by 2043, a recent ISSA Africa report...
Cameroon: AfDB approves resumption of contract award process for Bogo-Pouss road construction
The Cameroonian Ministry of Public Work (Mintp) announced the resumption of the contract award process for the Bogo-Pouss road project. This follows the...
Cameroon: AfDB to boost investments in the private sector
The AfDB Director for Central Africa, Serge Nguessan (pictured), met with actors of the Cameroonian private sector last September 26 in Douala, the...
Jules Doret Ndongo discusses the effects of the log export ban in Cameroon
The Cameroonian Minister of Forest presented the government’s expectations following the common decision by Cemac countries to ban log exports in the...
Cameroon: goods trade deficit narrowed significantly in H1 2022 (INS)
The goods trade deficit in Cameroon dropped significantly in H1 2022, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INS). The agency...
The container terminal of the Port of Kribi is expected to triple its capacity by H1 2024
The shareholders of the Kribi deepwater port project are working to triple the capacity of the container terminal by the first half of 2024. As part...
ISS Africa sees Cameroon’s carbon emissions at 15.1 mln tons by 2043
By 2043, Cameroon is expected to release 15.1 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere, four times more than the current volume. The analysis was made...
Camwater MD asked to take urgent measure to improve water quality at Akomnyada station
Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital, is regularly faced with water shortages due to disruptions at the Akomnyada water station, the city's main water...
Cameroon customs intercepts 55kg of narcotics headed for the Philippines
Cameroonian customs at the Douala airport seized 55kg of drugs heading to the Philippines last September 22. Official sources said the narcotics were...
BEAC raises key rates again in an attempt to curb inflation
Following the 3rd 2022 meeting of its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) held yesterday in Yaoundé, the Bank of Central African States Beac announced it has...
Camair-co resumes operations after air traffic controllers suspend strike call
Cameroon’s national airline announced in a September 24 statement it has resumed “normal flight schedule on all our destinations, following the suspension...
Comifac Cracks Down on Illegal Wood Trafficking in Central Africa
The Central African Forest Commission (Comifac) hosted yesterday in Yaoundé the signing ceremony of the Tropical Timber Trade Facility (TTT) project note....
Cameroon: Gicam launches support program for art and culture SMEs
The Cameroon Employers’ Grouping (Gicam) announced it has launched a program to boost local SMEs that are active in the art and culture industry. “This...
Cameroon: Sonara obtains debt restructuring from Swiss trader Vitol, again
Cameroon's national refining company Sonara obtained a debt restructuring from Swiss trader Vito S.A. Yesterday, the Minister of Finance, Louis Paul...
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