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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Cameroun: Le premier téléphone Made In Cameroon bientôt en vente
Home › News & Events › Infrastructure News › Cameroun: Le premier téléphone Made In Cameroon bientôt en vente
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…
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Cameroon: A new port will extend over thirty kilometres
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26 August 2009 Cameroon will soon be provided with a large deep water port, close to Douala. This information was released by the Pana press agency, obtained from an official source, on Wednesday 26…
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ADB: new financing agreements for electrical infrastructures in Burkina Faso and Cameroon
Home › News & Events › Infrastructure News › ADB: new financing agreements for electrical infrastructures in Burkina Faso and Cameroon
(ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank, approved a loan to Cameroon of 47.79 million dollars. This relates to a project to reinforce and to extend electrical networks…
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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…
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Cameroon: Construction of second bridge over river Wouri to start in October
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31 January 2011 Cameroon's ministry for public works has just announced that the construction of the second bridge over the river Wouri, linking the city of Douala to the facilities of the Autonomous Port of Douala, will start next October. The cost of the works is estimated at close to 250 million dollars, and will take three years, it was learned Thursday last by the APA press agency. The current bridge can barely carry the ever-increasing traffic, and this link is strategic to Cameroon: it is used daily to carry goods between Douala and the port. The infrastructure will comprise two bridges with a…