AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoParliamentary Agenda in Yaoundé: House Speaker Rt. Hon. Theodore Datouo opened the 2026 June session urging action on cost of living, youth unemployment, education, healthcare, water and power access, infrastructure, agricultural modernisation and environmental protection, while also pushing for tougher transparency and reforms in mining and land tenure. Mining Transparency Push: In the same opening, lawmakers highlighted unanswered questions on how mining revenues are collected, managed and redistributed, and said communities often feel resource wealth is not improving local living conditions. GCE Exam Crisis: Cameroon postponed GCE exams after confidential papers circulated online, with Minister Nalova Lyonga rejecting claims of political targeting and blaming “internal betrayal” and corruption within the GCE Board, while technical and vocational exams were kept on schedule. Investment Climate Update: A Yaoundé presentation of a 144-page UNIDO-IPA report on foreign direct investment says 75 surveyed FDI firms show strong appetite to expand, with US$86.1m already reinvested and US$166.8m planned, though fewer than half translated intentions into concrete plans. Sports & National Prep: Cameroon’s Sambo team is in final camp preparation in Yaoundé ahead of the African Sambo Championships in Cairo (June 13–15), aiming to maintain the country’s top continental position.
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