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1. Cameroon to benefit from more than 5,000 km optical fiber by end of 2011

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   28 April 2011 "Cameroon will have more than 5,000 kilometers of optical fiber cable by the end of this year", the Xinhua press agency was told on Tuesday by the minister for Post…

2. Cameroon: 540 million USD from China for hydroelectric dam at Memve'ele

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   5 May 2011 Last Tuesday, China signed a loan agreement with Cameroon for 540 million dollars for the realization of a hydroelectric dam project in the South of Cameroon. This is the hydroelectric dam at Memve'ele on the river Ntem, which will have an installed power of 210 MW. The works will take five years and the power station should enter service in 2016. The government of Cameroon must contribute 97.4…

3. Cameroon: Bioelectricity production plant will generate 15 MW

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   1 February 2011 The agro-industrial complex in Dja, a plant for producing electricity from manioc, will soon open in Cameroon. A protocol of agreement was signed Tuesday January 25 with the company Forbes Energy Cameroon (Fec). This project, which requires an investment of 123 million dollars, aims to produce energy and bioethanol from 20,000 hectares of fields of manioc, reports the newspaper La Nouvelle Expression. Four industrial complexes will be constructed in the south of the country. The project should generate 84.3 million dollars from export earnings, and also the industrial-scale production…

4. Cameroon: EDC devotes over 60% of its 2014 investment budget to the Lom Pangar Dam

   Home › News & Events › Infrastructure News › Cameroon: EDC devotes over 60% of its 2014 investment budget to the Lom Pangar Dam

   9 January 2014 Business in Cameroon The board of Electricity Development Corporation (EDC), the States body with oversight in energy infrastructure, adopted a balanced budget for 2014 on December 27, 2013 amounting to 80.8 billion FCfa, of which 70.2 billion FCfa will be devoted to investment. Its partial launch scheduled for 2014, the Lom Pagar Dam will have a water retention capacity of 6 billion m 3 . It is being built by China International Water and Electric Corporation (CWE). According to lenders who evaluated the project in June 2013, 35% of the dam has been built. The dam, at the foot…

5. France lends close to 130 million euros to Cameroon for construction of a bridge at Douala

   Home › News & Events › Infrastructure News › France lends close to 130 million euros to Cameroon for construction of a bridge at Douala

   16 May 2011 France has just granted a loan of 129.6 million euros to Cameroon to finance part of the construction of a second bridge over the river Wouri, on a road leading to the port of Douala. The Ambassador for France in Cameroon, Bruno Gain, said that calls for tenders had been launched and that the works should start before the end of this year, reports the APA press agency. This second construction will bring…

6. Cameroon: Three financial backers inject 67 million euros for a power station at Dibamba

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   31 May 2011 The Dibamba Power Development Company (Dpdc), which runs the Dibamba power station in Cameroon, has just obtained funding of 67 million euros. These funds are being provided by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Netherlands Development Finance Company (Fmo) and the African Development Bank (ABD). This will enable Dpdc to carry on running the thermal power station at Dibamba, but also to add 86 megawatts to its present generating output, reports the newspaper Mutations. The agreements were signed on 11 May in Paris. Elsewhere, China called on South Africa last Thursday…

7. Launch of studies for several energy projects in Cameroon

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   5 July 2011 Feasibility studies for the realization of several projects in the energy infrastructure domain have just commenced in Cameroon. They concern the construction of a gas-fired power station at Limbé, the installation of an oil pipeline for terrestrial transport of oil products and the creation of a system to supply the national market with natural gas, reports Cameroon Tribune. Two American…

8. Cameroon: France invests in construction of second bridge over the Wouri

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   15 July 2011 Last Wednesday, France and Cameroon signed a financing agreement in the order of 142.4 million dollars for a road infrastructure project. It involves the construction of a second bridge over the river Wouri at Douala, capital city of Cameroon, at a total cost of 258.2 million dollars. Construction should be completed in 2015, reports the Xinhua press agency. This bridge, the second over the river Wouri,  will be constructed close to the existing bridge, which is no longer able to cope with the density of traffic. It will therefore improve road transport by carrying 55,000 vehicles per day. In Ivory…

9. Cameroun: Le premier téléphone Made In Cameroon bientôt en vente

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   14 February 2012 allAfrica.com | February 13, 2012 X-net phone. Ne vous méprenez pas sur la consonance british de ce nom. Il s'agit bel et bien du nom du tout premier téléphone portable, entièrement c…

10. Cameroon: A second bridge over the Wouri by 2015

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    8 September 2010 The Agence France de Développement (AFD), the French Development Agency, has granted more than 97 million dollars to Cameroon to construct a second bridge over the river Wouri. The work, which should be completed during 2015, will cost a total of 233.2 million dollars. "The infrastructure will comprise two bridges with a length of 850 metres, with a five-lane road section and a rail section with two tracks. Two roundabouts will be provided at the ends for good accessibility", announced the president of the Groupement interpatronal du Cameroun (Gicam), an employers' association, Olivier…