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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. Japan provides financial support for electrification project in Cameroon

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   7 March 2011 Japan has signed a financing agreement to the value of 17 billion FCFA, destined for a project to reinforce electrical infrastructures and for rural electrification in Cameroon, in Yaoundé on March 4. This project will create approximately 332,000 connections and supply electricity to over 1.5 million residents of Cameroon through the construction of transformers and low and high…

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. China gives a grant of 3 million USD to Cameroon

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    31 December 2010 Last Wednesday, China gave a package worth over three million dollars to Cameroon to finance a number of economic and technical cooperation projects. "A gift with no strings attached", the newspaper La Nouvelle Tribune was told by Xue Jinwei, China's ambassador to Cameroon, when the agreement was signed in Yaoundé. He explained that the gifts will contribute to financing a number of infrastructure projects, such as the hydroelectric power stations of Lom Pangar, Memve’le and Mekin, social housing and the deep-water port of Kribi. Cameroon's minister for the Economy, Louis Paul…