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Unveiling Tomorrow's Cameroon Through Today's News A horrific head-on collision early Wednesday morning on the Yaoundé-Sangmalima road has resulted in numerous fatalities Initial reports indicate that all occupants of the inter-regional bus tragically lost their lives in the incident The fatal accident occurred on the Mbalmayo-Sangmalima route Medical personnel at the Sangmelima referral hospital report a grim toll of at least 26 deaths resulting from the accident this incident underscores the urgent need for enhanced road safety measures in the region to prevent such tragedies in the future Event | Contact French | English In his address to the youth on February 11 the Head of State once again urged Cameroonians towards self-employment.  It is then essential to provide the technical framework necessary to support the youth in that direction laid the foundation stone of the digital innovation and business incubation center at the International School of Digital Engineering in Sangmélima The center is a part of the Congo-Cameroon Inter-State University (UIECC) and is being constructed by military engineers funded to the tune of XAF450 million (US$743,000) by the  Development Bank of the Central African States (BDEAC) is one of the eleven priority integration projects in the CEMAC region.  spanning approximately 1,675 square meters and assist students and young graduates of the International School of Digital Engineering with digital business startup projects facilitating the implementation and monitoring of innovation and digital entrepreneurship projects the coordinator of the Congo-Cameroon Inter-State University and director of the digital engineering school the school itself is an incubation center where students are already engaged in profitable economic activities has reportedly supported around thirty startups by engineering students The director expressed the school’s ambition to transform Sangmélima into a hub for digital activities redefines the role of university institutions transforming them into “university companies” and elevating students to “student entrepreneurs” to combat youth unemployment through self-employment in which the private sector should be the primary provider of jobs one of the fundamental roles of the university is to support economic diversification through the detection and incubation at the university of potential and future captains and leaders of the primary tertiary and quaternary sectors,” said Minister Jacques Fame Ndongo by the heads of state of Cameroon and Congo began its training activities in the 2020-2021 academic year with the opening of the Sangmélima Engineering School The school currently enrolls 450 engineering students including 250 Cameroonians and 200 Congolese nationals Please publish modules in offcanvas position (Business in Cameroon) - The Cassava processing unit Sotramas finally started operations this month which is expected to produce 120 tons of starch and flour per day this industrial unit has never been able to effectively start production due to misunderstandings regarding the appointment of the general manager the absence of raw materials to supply the plant the municipality of Sangmelima and the Chamber of Commerce have announced the establishment of a cassava cluster around the city of Sangmelima This cluster will be established on a seed field of 150 hectares to ensure that cassava producers have access to plant materials According to 2015 estimates by the Ministry of Agriculture over 4,000 hectares of cassava will have to be cultivated over five years for Sotramas to reach full capacity a goal that is still far from being achieved Kribi Bitumen Plant Set to Start Construction in 2025 with Government Backing CEMAC Bond Market Hits CFA 8.45 Trillion in March 2025, Interest Rates Drop Cameroon’s Timber Output Projected to Rise in 2025 Despite Higher Export Taxes Central Africa Stock Exchange Sees 98% Drop in Trading Value in Q1 2025 Every week the economy and investment news from Cameroon Mboa Paris Trains 30 Young Cameroonians to Boost Tech and Entrepreneurship Cameroon Audit Targets Former Officials for Mismanagement in Agricultural Project Camwater Seeks Global Bids to Launch Bottled Water Lines in Five Cities Bafoussam Workshop Highlights Benefits of Cameroon-EU Trade Agreement Cameroon Could Reach 350,100 Tons of Cotton in 2025 (Beac) Paul Biya Appoints Johnny Razack as Chair of Cameroon’s National Investment Company Cameroon Refuses Work Visa Renewal for Casino and Super U Boss Over Toxic Workplace Claims Cameroon Joins Global Charter to Fight Illegal Fishing the 65-km Sangmélina-Bikoula road section (in Southern Cameroon) is 83% completed The completion rate was estimated during the field visit carried out earlier this week by Minister of Public Works Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi According to executives of the Iranian company Kayson Inc the road will be delivered by end-September 2021 provided the problems related to the compensation of residents along this road section are addressed the compensations still pending before competent authorities along with the Iranian companies’ technical failures and difficulties have been the main reasons delaying the construction of that road section connecting Cameroon to the Republic of Congo Even if the road section is delivered on September 30 Kayson Inc has already taken close to nine years just to build this 65-km road section the Iranian company started construction works for this section on October 12 The completion of Sangmélina-Bikoula will boost trades between Cameroon and Congo since it is a section of the Sangmelima-Ouesso cross-border road (Business in Cameroon) - Road transport company United Express launched Monday the first direct route between Cameroon and Congo the company only operated air-conditioned bus services between the Cameroonian cities of Yaoundé and Douala The new route is the very first experience of road passenger transport between two countries in the CEMAC region the 24-hour trips will first only take place on Mondays with a stop in the southern region of Sangmélima and a transfer at the border between Cameroon and Congo in the town of Ntam (Eastern Cameroon) The project is made possible through a partnership with Saint Denis Voyages (SDV) the Congolese transport company which will be responsible for picking up passengers at the border between the two countries and taking them to Brazzaville Fares for a Douala-Brazza trip are CFA75,000 for one-way and CFA130,000 for a round-trip while those for a trip between Yaoundé and Brazzaville are CFA70,000 (one-way) and CFA120,000 (round-trip) and those for a trip between Sangmélima and Brazzaville are CFA65,000 and CFA115,000 This transport option is a more affordable alternative to air transport and contributes to better networking within the Cemac countries It follows the completion of the Cameroonian section of the transborder road between Sangmelima in Cameroon and Ouesso in Congo in 2021 This section was considered the missing link in the Yaoundé-Brazzaville corridor which is a crucial component of the alternative route from Windhoek (Namibia) to Tripoli (Libya) connecting the Central African Republic to Cameroon and facilitating interconnection with the Brazzaville-Pointe-Noire road in Congo was co-financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroonian sections of the Sangmelima-Ouesso corridor connecting Cameroon and Congo will soon be inaugurated Minister of Public Works Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi announced in a release signed on December 20 The sections concerned are Sangmelima-Bikoula (85 km) Mintom-Lélé (67.50 km) and Lélé-Ntam-Mbalam (53 km) “The logistics chain improvement project in Africa aims to connect the two countries [Cameroon and Congo] by road and boost trade This is now possible,” the release informs the roads will contribute to both countries’ development goals by facilitating sub-regional integration and easing access from Yaoundé to Brazzaville The Sangmelima-Ouesso road costs XAF119.8 billion The funds were raised from several financial partners including the BADEA and the two countries involved in the project (Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroonian government has just awarded to the Egyptian civil engineering company for the construction of a stretch of the Sangmélima-Ouesso cross-border road which is meant to link Cameroon to the Republic of Congo which should be carried out over a 20-months period is also about the construction of 32 kilometres of road between Bikoula and Djoum to complete the 65 km of road between Sangmélima and Djoum for which only 25% of the construction works was achieved (3 years after their launch) The contract for this first stretch had been awarded to the Iranian company Kayson Company whose bid for the construction of the Bikoula-Djoum road has just been rejected by the Cameroonian government officially due to “insufficient references on performances in similar project” Officially presented as “the missing link between the capitals Yaoundé and Brazzaville” the Sangmélima (Cameroon)-Ouesso (Congo) cross-border road construction project will consist in paving 651 km including 316 km on the Cameroonian side and 335 on the Congolese side (including the first 169 km commissioned on 11 February 2016) the Kuwaiti Fund and the two states involved in the project four road sections connecting to Congo are scheduled to be completed in November 2020 These are the Sangmelima-Bikoula (65 km) Mintom-Lélé (67.50 km) and Lélé-Ntam-Mbalam (53 km) sections The completion schedule was revealed in a briefing note about a 4-day visit being carried out by Minister Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi since March 4 the visit is to inspect the completion rate of all the sections at the Cameroonian side of the trans-border road Sangmelima-Ouesso the road connecting Congolese towns of Sembé and Souanké to the Cameroonian border is scheduled to be inaugurated today March 6 only one of the five sections Cameroon had to build in the framework of the trans-border road has been completed This completed section is Djoum-Mintom (98 km) and Lélé-Ntam-Mbalam) are expected to be completed in November All those road sections are part of the trans-border road Sangmélima-Ouesso This road project consists of the asphalting of about 700 km of road to facilitate trade between Cameroon and Congo financing was raised by the two countries with the support of the AfDB the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa the Saudi Fund for Development and the Kuwait Fund (Business in Cameroon) - Cassava producers in Sangmelima will soon be dotted with a cassava processing plant After a meeting of stakeholders of the project in the locality recently a company to pilot the affairs of the soon-to-be-created plant was set up “Société de transformation industrielle de manioc (SOTRAMAS)” or Industrial Cassava Processing Company would process about 120 metric tonnes of cassava per day (48,000 metric tonnes per year) and generate about 180 direct jobs Focus of the plant will be the production of starch which is said to be selling like hot cake in the national and international markets Industries and Crafts of Cameroon and the Sangmelima council to the tune of FCFA 1.2 billion the plant is almost at the stage of finishing and the project is to boost the industrialisation process undertaken by public authorities in Cameroon 23-05-2013 - Cameroon develops 19-35 tons yields capacity per hectare cassava seedlings 20-02-2013 - AfDB offers CFAF 314 million to IRAD for seed production (Business in Cameroon) - During the evaluation meeting for the construction of the Mengong-Sangmelima road of 73.658 km declared himself satisfied with the works undertaken on this important road From the presentation made by the monitoring mission we can mention that significant progress were noted in the execution of the works The global progress for May 2016 is estimated at 12% for 31.93% of the time allocated The main completed works are the general worksite installation the monitoring mission noted that the rate of progress of the completed works would be higher if some constraints had not delayed the work developments There is for example the total release of the Esse-Akak quarry where the equipment of the former dismissed company is still on site and the full release of the expropriated lands in the project areas Several actions have been carried out to solve these different situations and the company has started removing its equipment to enable the company Arab Contractors start work The Mvila prefectoral commission is working hard to finalise the expropriation process on the project (Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon will experiment with the Emulsion Enhanced Recycling (EER) technique for the renovation of the 115-kilometer road connecting Mbalmayo (Center) and Sangmélima (South).  "The technique involves reusing worn-out in-place material and improving its performance by recycling it.. The result is an in-place material that can withstand traffic for ten to fifteen years," explains Blaise Simo technical manager at Razel Cameroun.   It is expected to reduce road rehabilitation costs in the country "Pavement recycling projects are less costly than conventional approaches," says the Ministry of Public Works Recycling reduces the number of quarry materials to be imported It also reduces the need to set up crushing plants or open new quarries It helps save transport costs as there will be fewer materials to supply from outside and also saves execution times.  To facilitate the execution of these works the project has been divided into three lots for an about CFAF7.7 billion contract,  has been completed financed to the tune of CFAF7.5 billion FCFA Arab Contractors has completed 7% of the works entrusted to Razel for nearly CFAF5.103 billion the country is expected to spend CFAF20.3 billion to renovate the 115-kilometer road That is an average of CFAF176 million per kilometer of road.  Cameroon has been known as one of the African countries with the most expensive roads during a meeting of the focal points of the National Road Council (Conaroute) it was revealed that the average price per kilometer of paved road in Cameroon is estimated at around CFAF205 million while the African average is CFAF100 million the World Bank revealed that certain road infrastructures in Cameroon are 2 to 6 times more expensive than African projects of the same scale Cameroon’s Minister of Public Works Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi inaugurated a total of 321.5km of newly constructed and previously missing sections of the Sangmelina-Ouesso Road Corridor that links Cameroon and the neighboring republic of Congo Also Read: Sangmélima-Ouesso Road: Cameroon to complete construction of its side of the road this year Constructed under the Central African Consensual Transport Development Master Plan (PDCT-AC) the said sections are the 85km long Sangmelima-Bikoula Owing to these newly constructed sections of sangmelina-ouesso road corridor can now make the whole journey within seven hours is a significant reduction in traveling time considering that previously travelers would spend at least four days on the same route reason been the road was in a terrible condition especially after Sangmelina the African Development Bank (AfDB) representative for the Central African region explained that he worked as an expert on the project “At one time, I hit the road to get a feel of the real conditions. This road you are seeing now was just a track, but I’m proud to see that now two Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) capitals are connected by a real road  It is the AfDB’s ambition to see similar initiatives implemented in more countries in the Central African region,” said Mr AfDB is the main donor of the Sangmelina-Ouesso Road Corridor project, the cost of which was close to US$ 354bn. Other contributors were the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa and the two beneficiary countries (Congo and Cameroon) Welcome to Construction Review a portal that serves the building and construction industry through our blog social media presence and print publication Contact us Guest Posting Take down policy The construction of the Cameroonian side of the transnational Sangmélima-Ouesso Road that connects the Republic of Cameroon to the neighboring Republic of the Congo is expected to be fully completed by the end of this year (2021) This came into light when the Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi paid a visit to the project site the last rights-of-way have already been given on sections that are still under construction and this will help contractors in charge to accelerate their works Also Read: Asphalting works of Nkolmesseng road network in Yaoundé, Cameroon, launched The 38 km Bikoula-Djoum section of the Sangmélima-Ouesso Road, contracted to The Arab Contractors (Osman Ahmed Osman & Co.) which is one of the leading construction companies in the Middle East and Africa the right of way on this section allowed them to increase the rate of execution of works to more than 94% The 65 km long Sangmélima-Bikoula section on the other hand achieved a rate of 83% in May. The Iranian company Kayson Inc which will have spent 9 years on this site for various technical and financial difficulties is the date announced for the delivery of the 53 km line between Lele had it not been for the constraints linked to compensation for the populations affected by the project of which 95% of the works are already completed should have been provisionally accepted in January 2021 the section 67.5 km separating the localities of Mintom and Lélé have been completed for several months now the Sangmélima-Ouesso Road project consists of asphalting of approximately 700 km of road of which 321 km lie on the Cameroonian side The construction works of the 65 km Sangmélima-Bikoula road in the southern region of Cameroon that is currently 83% executed as per the observation made by the Central African country’s Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi are expected to be completed by September this year This announcement was made by the project contractor, Kayson Inc which is a privately-owned Iranian engineering and construction company that provides world-class Project Development Also Read: DRC, DP World revise initial agreement for Banana deep water port project According to the officials of the Iranian company the site will be delivered subject to the resolution of some compensation problems for residents of KP 63 to KP 64.5 which are still pending before the administration of Cameroon Noteworthy, these compensations coupled with the difficulties and technical failures of Kayson Inc, were moreover the main reasons for the delay in the construction of this road project which begun back in October 2012 according to data from the Ministry of Public Works of Cameroon (Ministère des Travaux Publics de Cameroun) the project implementation will have taken approximately 9 years to complete which links Cameroon to the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo will help boost trade between the two nations as it is a link in the Sangmélima-Ouesso cross-border