3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (437+ words) Cameroon is exploring long-term financing options to increase housing construction and make home purchases more accessible as the country faces an estimated shortfall of 2.5 million units. The issue was discussed in Yaoundé on Sept. 8, 2026, between Economy, Planning and Regional Development…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (688+ words) Cameroon has cut the regulated cost of surveying a three-hectare urban plot by 48.1% to CFA675,000 in 2026, partially reversing a steep increase that the government acknowledges had made land formalization prohibitively expensive for some applicants. The 2026 Finance Law reduced the fee for…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (862+ words) The Cameroon-Chad electricity interconnection can no longer meet its December 31, 2027 completion target under the timelines set for major contracts now being tendered, with even the most favorable calculations extending some construction work into 2028 in Chad and 2029 in Cameroon. The African…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (748+ words) Cameroon increased its installed electricity generation capacity by 50.4% in five years to an estimated 2,280 MW at the end of 2025, but the country remains 1,220 MW short of the government’s interim target as structural supply, grid and financial constraints persist. Installed capacity…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (573+ words) China First Highway Engineering Co. Ltd. (CFHEC) has started procurement preparations less than a month after it secured the first section of the Edéa-Kribi road reconstruction project, an early documented sign of material mobilization for the CFA43.81 billion contract. On September…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (469+ words) Cameroon has given 43 contractors 21 days to resume or complete abandoned public contracts worth more than CFA1.5 billion across the Adamawa, Far North and West regions, the latest government action against a persistent problem in the execution of public projects. Minister Delegate…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (841+ words) Cameroon’s state-owned water utility Camwater has awarded Chinese company Hangzhou Laison Technology Company Limited a CFA721.76 million contract to deploy 3,000 smart water meters, the first batch of a much larger program designed to improve billing and recover more revenue. The contract…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (747+ words) Cameroon has officially opened the Mayo Taram bridge in Banyo, removing a vulnerable crossing on a key road between the West and Adamawa regions after a project that took far longer than initially planned. Public Works Minister Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (355+ words) It emerged from the meeting that road infrastructure accounts for a major share of the projects under implementation. Reconstruction work has intensified on the Mora-Waza-Dabanga-Kousseri section of National Road No. 1, a strategic corridor linking Cameroon to Chad. The Yagoua-Bongor bridge…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (460+ words) Cameroon’s customs administration is targeting CFA106.7 billion in revenue in August 2026, with Douala port expected to provide the largest share and maintain its central role in the country’s foreign trade despite the development of the deepwater port of Kribi. According to…...