Cameroon 2018-2025: A Stronger Grid, Powered by New Dams and Reshaped Energy

(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon’s energy sector has seen significant expansion since 2018, driven by infrastructure projects reshaping the electricity landscape. However, the government’s target of raising generation capacity to 3,000 MW,...

Boosting production of Made in Cameroon milita...

The member of government cut the ribbon officially putting the Central Tailoring Workshop under the Logistics Reserve of Armed Forces and Gendarmerie in Yaounde yesterday. The workshop is located within the premises of the Joint Services Technical...

Cameroon Hydrocarbons Surplus Rises 28% in Q1 2025 as Imports Drop, Crude Output Slips

(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon’s hydrocarbons sector posted a net trade surplus of 164 billion CFA francs ($266 million) in the first quarter of 2025, an improvement of 28% from the same period last year despite weaker crude oil export...

Garoua Wheat Processing Plant Among 500 billion francs worth of Deals Secured by Cameroons Investment Promotion Agency in Under Four Months

(Business in Cameroon) - The Investment Promotion Agency of Cameroon (IPA) has announced a major investment agreement with DYA Group, led by the Cameroonian businessman Oumarou Fadil. This deal stands as the ultimate disclosure of a four-month...

Yaoundé: Ngute commissions Chinese-built headquarters of public works ministry

Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute on Tuesday inaugurated the headquarters building of the Ministry of Public Works, built by Sinohydro Corporation Limited, a Chinese engineering and construction company. At the inauguration ceremony in the capital,...

Issa Tchiroma Bakary: "Cameroonians are tired of the CPDM" [Interview]

You have served in several governments and held key ministerial posts. What motivates you today to run for the highest office? I am the national president of the Front for the National Salvation of Cameroon. It’s a political party, and the...

Junior Nsemba: The nephew of Rigobert Song making waves with Wigan Warriors

This article is part of The Athletic’s series marking UK Black History Month. To view the whole collection, click here. At Wigan Warriors and in the wider rugby league world, there is constant talk of Junior Nsemba fulfilling his vast potential....

Douala launches CFA26.7 bn agro-industrial hub for cattle processing

(Business in Cameroon) - Douala will host within three years a new agro-industrial complex dedicated to cattle processing. On October 1, 2025, the Minister of Decentralization and Local Development, Georges Elanga Obam, laid the foundation stone...

Cameroon Inaugurates New Ministry of Public Works Headquarters in Yaoundé

CameroonOnline.ORG | On September 30, 2025, a ceremony in Yaoundé marked the official inauguration of the new headquarters of Cameroon’s Ministry of Public Works. The event was presided over by Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute and attended by...

Cameroon Inaugurates Treasury Staff-Funded Five-Star Hotel In Yaoundé

(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute presided over the inauguration of the five-star Concord International Hotel (CIH) in Yaoundé on September 30, 2025. The hotel was constructed by Mutuelle des personnels du...

Cameroon’s Sylver Screen To Reopen Douala Grand Mall Cinemas In Bid To Revive Film Sector

(Business in Cameroon) - Sylver Screen Cinema, a Cameroonian film exhibition company, announced on September 17, 2025, that it is taking over the movie theaters at the Grand Mall in Douala. The screens had been closed for a year, following three...

Cameroon, AfDB Seal €136m Pact to Boost Skills and Jobs in Far North

Cameroon and the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) have signed loan agreements worth €136 million to finance a programme aimed at building skills, creating jobs and modernising infrastructure in the country’s conflict-affected far north...

Cameroon commissions Chinese-built headquarters of public works ministry

YAOUNDE, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute on Tuesday inaugurated the headquarters building of the Ministry of Public Works, built by Sinohydro Corporation Limited, a Chinese engineering and construction company. At...

Cameroon, AfDB sign €136m loan deal to boost skills and jobs in Far North

Cameroon has signed a €136 million loan agreement with the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) to finance a five-year programme aimed at strengthening skills, creating jobs, and modernising infrastructure in the country’s conflict-affected Far...

Yaounde: Organisations educates ove...

The programme is implemented by Heart of Hope Cameroon, HoHCa, in partnership with Unity Foundation Cameroon, UFC, and Africa Needs Us Foundation, ANUF, with support from the Digital Democracy Initiative. The initiative targets 300 young people...

Paul Biya use AI-generated video to market imsef, absent for rally as Cameroon presidential election campaign begin

Campaign for di October 12 presidential election for Cameroon don officially start, as plenti candidates don begin hold rally for different parts of di kontri but 92-year-old President Paul Biya no dey among dem. President Biya on Saturday 27...

Cameroon, African Development Bank (AfDB) sign €136 million loan deal to develop skills and entrepreneurship in Far North

Cameroon and the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) have signed loan agreements worth €136 million to finance a programme aimed at building skills, creating jobs and modernising infrastructure in the country’s conflict-affected far...

Cameroon, KHPC Sign Social Compliance Deal for $1.05 Billion Kikot Dam

• (Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon and KHPC signed a framework agreement to protect communities affected by the 500 MW Kikot hydropower project. • The dam, estimated at CFA655 billion, will be the largest in Cameroon and is backed by the World...

Cameroon justice system makes slow progress despite reforms since 2018

(Business in Cameroon) - Since 2018, Cameroon has embarked on a broad overhaul of its judicial system. The reforms align with the National Development Plan and commitments made to the United Nations and OHADA. They include rehabilitating...

Incumbent absent as Cameroon presidential campaigning picks up

Cameroon's elderly president Paul Biya was absent from the country on Sunday as campaigning kicked into high gear for October 12 polls to decide who will fill his position. The 92-year-old -- the world's oldest head of state, in power since 1982...