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Cameroon: Sonara adopts 2-year plan to restart Limbe refinery by 2027
Business in Cameroon
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August 18, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon’s National Refining Company (Sonara) approved on August 13 the Acceleration Plan for Restructuring and Rehabilitation Measures for Refining Restart within 24 months (Parras 24). The initiative agreed upon during a...
To enhance sustainable agriculture i...
The Guardian Post
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The several tonnes of farm inputs comprised improved seeds of rain-fed sorghum, off-season sorghum (Muskwari), wheat, soybeans, eggplant, cassava cuttings and potato vines produced by IRAD. The donations by IRAD also included 500 bags of...
Biya regime seeks CFA165bn aid to rebuild Douala-Yaoundé road
Cameroon Intelligence Report
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August 18, 2025
The Cameroonian government has asked the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) for CFA165 billion to rehabilitate the Douala-Yaoundé road, a 214.1-kilometer section of National Highway No. 3. The request, dated July 22, 2025, was signed by Minister of...
Cameroon government lauds Catholic Church’s peace-building efforts ahead of election
Catholic News Agency
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August 17, 2025
ACI Africa, Aug 17, 2025 / 07:00 am The minister of state, secretary-general at the presidency of Cameroon has commended the Catholic Church in the Central African nation for committing to peace-building as the country prepares for its...
Textile Industry’s ‘Comeback’: Reviving textile without cotton
Daily Trust
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August 16, 2025
Over the years, there have been several efforts to revive the textile industry, which employed about 750,000 workers and contributed 25 per cent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the 1980s. Some of these revival strategies include...
Cameroon could bridge the gap in US cocoa and timber imports
Atlantic Council
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August 15, 2025
In recent years, the United States has steadily ramped up its commercial engagement in Africa. Nonetheless, many markets across the continent remain underexplored, and many sectors lie untapped. Cameroon is a telling case in point. US firms have...
23rd African water & sanitation cong...
The Guardian Post
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Dr Moussa who is President of AfWASA, gave the assurance in Yaounde, Wednesday July 30. This was during a meeting grouping stakeholders in the water and sanitation sector. The Minister of Water Resources and Energy, Gaston Eloundou Essomba,...
Financing local dev't: FEICOM renews support to network of African insti...
The Guardian Post
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He was speaking during the handing over ceremony of the new bureau of RIAFCO in Yaounde. The event was also punctuated with a session among FEICOM staff and RIAFCO officials. The bureau was put in place during the 13th Ordinary General Assembly of...
Cameroon plans to do population census next year
MENAFN
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August 14, 2025
(MENAFN) Reports indicate that Cameroon will carry out a population census next year, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office. The census is set to be conducted alongside a general survey of agriculture and livestock. Earlier...
UNESCO empowers young influencers to pro...
The Guardian Post
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The initiative, part of the PRONEC-REAMORCE project, under the National Programme for Civic Education for the Reinforcement of Peaceful Coexistence and Living Together, dubbed PBIF Connect, took place from August 1 to 2, at the UNESCO Office in...
Cameroon Seeks CFA165bn IsDB Aid to Rebuild Douala-Yaoundé Road
Business in Cameroon
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August 14, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroonian government has asked the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) for CFA165 billion to rehabilitate the Douala-Yaoundé road, a 214.1-kilometer section of National Highway No. 3. The request, dated July 22, 2025,...
D’Tigers Crush Tunisia In Afrobasket, Set For Third Match With Cameroon
TVC News Nigeria
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August 15, 2025
Nigeria’s senior men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, maintained their unbeaten start to the 2025 FIBA AfroBasket Championship in Angola with a commanding 87–66 victory over defending champions, Tunisia in their second group stage encounter.......
Why Nigeria’s eastern CNG hub could redefine the nation’s energy future
Business Day
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August 15, 2025
Nigeria’s compressed natural gas sector is experiencing unprecedented momentum, with over $791 million in investments flowing into the ecosystem in just two months of 2025. At the centre of this transformation lies a groundbreaking industrial...
Cameroon to conduct population census in 2026
Xinhua News Agency
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YAOUNDE, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Cameroon is going to conduct a population census next year, the country's Prime Minister's Office said in a statement on Wednesday. The census will be coupled with the general census of agriculture and livestock, the...
Cameroon plans 100,000 smart solar streetlights to save CFA4bn yearly
Business in Cameroon
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August 12, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - Spain’s Salvi Lighting Barcelona has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Cameroonian government, represented by Minister of Water and Energy Gaston Eloundou Essomba, to prepare studies for the supply and...
Cameroon forecasts CFA3,200–5,400/kg cocoa prices for 2025-2026
Business in Cameroon
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August 12, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon’s Minister of Trade expects producer prices for cocoa to remain strong throughout the 2025-2026 season, which officially began on August 7, 2025, in Mbankomo, a major production area in the country’s Center...
Peter Bentata, VP of production at Compagnie Fruitière, the driver of a deep digital transformation in banana production
Fresh Fruit Portal
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August 14, 2025
Peter Bentata has over 25 years of experience evolving the tropical agricultural sector. Through his work in the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe, he’s been instrumental in a transformation that culminates in the creation of FARMS, an innovative...
Cameroon Academy of Sciences Week: Scientists mobilise to boost country'...
The Guardian Post
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Discussions to this effect are the essence of the third edition of the 2025 CAS Week of Science in the service of National Development. It opened in Yaounde Tuesday, July 29, and ended July 31 with the reading of the general report. The ceremony...
FG flags off construction of Calabar–Oban–Ekang Road
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 14, 2025
Motorists plying the Calabar–Oban–Ekang Road in Akamkpa Local Government Area, Cross River State, can now heave a sigh of relief as the Federal Government commenced the long-awaited rehabilitation of the road leading up to the Cameroon border on...
Yaounde: WIPO, OAPI regional conference maps strategies to bolster creat...
The Guardian Post
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Presided over by the Minister of Arts and Culture, Bidoung Mkpatt, the two-day event brought together key stakeholders, including the Secretary General of the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Technological Development, the Director General of OAPI,...