Cameroon 2018-2025: A Stronger Grid, Powered by New Dams and Reshaped Energy

(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon’s energy sector has seen significant expansion since 2018, driven by infrastructure projects reshaping the electricity landscape. However, the government’s target of raising generation capacity to 3,000 MW,...

Sub-Saharan Africa Litigation Surgery: Strengthening Legal Defences for Press Freedom

“Since we launched these legal defence workshops – what we call litigation surgeries – in 2015, more than 400 lawyers from over 60 countries have taken part,” said Carlos Gaio, CEO of Media Defence. “These are intensive three-day sessions where...

Rolex-loving daughter defies Cameroon’s aged leader on TikTok

Audio By Carbonatix By Jessica Donati DAKAR (Reuters) -Cameroon’s 92-year-old President Paul Biya faces an unexpected challenge as he runs for an eighth term in office: a viral TikTok video by his daughter Brenda Biya saying she will not vote for...

Cameroonian man wanted for drug smuggling caught in Bangkok

Thai Immigration police arrested a 40-year-old a Cameroonian man wanted by Interpol for international drug trafficking after he evaded authorities for more than a year while living illegally in the capital. Acting on intelligence that a...

Revamping Maiduguri’s Airport for International Operations

Chinedu Eze In June 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, renamed the Maiduguri airport to Muhammadu Buhari International Airport and designated it as international facility. The re-naming of the airport, according to industry stakeholders, will...

Boosting production of Made in Cameroon milita...

The member of government cut the ribbon officially putting the Central Tailoring Workshop under the Logistics Reserve of Armed Forces and Gendarmerie in Yaounde yesterday. The workshop is located within the premises of the Joint Services Technical...

October 12 presidential election: what are investors focused on?

Cameroon’s voters will decide on October 12 whether to grant 92-year-old President Paul Biya, the world’s oldest head of state, an extension of his four-decade rule. Here is what investors are watching in the race to lead central Africa’s biggest...

Cameroon Infant Deaths Expose Impact Of US Malaria Aid Cuts

The death of nine-month-old Mohamat due to malaria in northern Cameroon after days of fever and delayed care reflects a surge in fatalities linked to the United States’ foreign aid cuts, according to local health officials. Before the cuts,...

2025 Presidential Elections:  Picture set to win

Presidential elections in Cameroon are scheduled for 12 October 2025 and 92-year-old President Biya who returned yesterday to the country after a 12-day health tourism in Switzerland remains the leading candidate. Mr. Biya has been in power since...

Steep Log Taxes Drive Cameroon’s Timber Sector Toward Processed Wood

(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon’s wood and wood products generated 3.9% of the country’s export revenue in the first quarter of 2025, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS). Sawn wood accounted for 2.8%, while logs and veneer...

Cameroon’s UNDP leader Beloboumama Egari to challenge Paul Biya in Presidential race

Nearly eight million Cameroonians will head to the polls on October 12, 2025, in an election that could mark a turning point in the country’s political history. Among the candidates is Beloboumama Egari, president of the National Union for...

Cameroon Launches National Incubator to Accelerate 40 High-Growth Startups

(Business in Cameroon) - On September 30, 2025, Cameroon's Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (Minpmeesa) officially opened applications for its National Pilot Business Incubator (PNPE), seeking 40 entrepreneurs for its next cohort in...

Cameroon cocoa exports surpass oil, cutting trade deficit by 88% in Q1 2025

(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon recorded export revenues of CFA1,118 billion in the first quarter of 2025, up 35.3% compared with CFA826 billion in the same period of 2024, according to new data from the National Institute of Statistics (INS)....

Funny Cameroonian man defends Tyla after Tiwa Savage's comments: "Stay out of it Aunty"

A sports commentator from Cameroon shared a funny yet serious video of himself defending Tyla against Americans His video came after Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage apologised on Tyla's behalf after she identified as a Coloured woman Several social...

Upcoming election in Cameroon: insights and possibilities

By Rachel Mohamed Cameroonians will vote in the upcoming presidential election on October 12th. The 92-year-old Paul Biya, who has been in office for more than four decades, nearly 43 years, is expected to run as a candidate for an eighth term. He...

Cameroonian Man Wanted for 19kg Drug Smuggling Caught in Bangkok

BANGKOK — Thai Immigration police arrested a 40-year-old a Cameroonian man wanted by Interpol for international drug trafficking after he evaded authorities for more than a year while living illegally in the capital. Acting on intelligence that a...

Cameroon Hydrocarbons Surplus Rises 28% in Q1 2025 as Imports Drop, Crude Output Slips

(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon’s hydrocarbons sector posted a net trade surplus of 164 billion CFA francs ($266 million) in the first quarter of 2025, an improvement of 28% from the same period last year despite weaker crude oil export...

US AID Cuts Lead to Baby Deaths From Malaria in Cameroon

BOGO, Cameroon (Reuters) -Nine-month-old baby Mohamat burned with fever for three days before his family took him to the closest health centre in northern Cameroon, but it was too late. He died of malaria that day. Mohamat's death was part of a...

world Babies' deaths in Cameroon show how US aid cuts curtail malaria fight

BOGO, Cameroon — Nine-month-old baby Mohamat burned with fever for three days before his family took him to the closest health centre in northern Cameroon, but it was too late. He died of malaria that day. Mohamat's death was part of a spike this...

Yaoundé: Ngute commissions Chinese-built headquarters of public works ministry

Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute on Tuesday inaugurated the headquarters building of the Ministry of Public Works, built by Sinohydro Corporation Limited, a Chinese engineering and construction company. At the inauguration ceremony in the capital,...