Cameroon Business Review
Business Intelligence for the Heart of Africa.
Deep reporting on the industries that carry the economy: cocoa and agribusiness, oil and gas, fintech, real estate, logistics, energy, telecoms, healthcare, forestry and mining.
Electricity losses on Douala's Logbaba–Bassa 1 line hit 44.7% in November 2025, ARSEL says, against a 5% limit. What the regulator found and what comes next.
Globeleq arrears hit $251.6m (about CFA147bn) at end-2025, 72% over 90 days late, forcing unit shutdowns at Kribi and Dibamba as plant profits fell 24%.
Cameroon cocoa prices in Douala held at CFA2,700–2,800/kg even as the FOB reference fell 4.2% in a week. What ONCC data shows for farmers and buyers.
Cameroon's AgriConnect pact calls for about CFA1.12 trillion across eight value chains to cut the food import bill by 28% by 2030. Here are the targets.
Cameroon timber processing: the SME ministry asks the UK for finance and equipment as raw log exports hit a five-year low and the 2028 CEMAC curbs draw near.
Douala port expansion talks with EU and French envoys centred on the Manoka deep-water extension, estimated at CFA900bn. No financing was agreed.
Socadel's fuel tender puts CFA52.6 billion toward heavy fuel oil and diesel for 33 thermal plants. Who can bid, what each lot covers, and the 3 November deadline.
Douala Port has opened talks with Burkina Faso's road hauliers to win transit cargo now routed through Lomé, Tema, Abidjan and Cotonou. What is on the table.
TMG and Indonesia's Turrima are weighing a $15 million organic fertilizer plant in Cameroon. No site, capacity or financing plan has been disclosed yet.
Cameroon's SNH has put the Zina and Makary oil blocks back on the market in a six-block round. Bids close May 28, 2027. What is on offer and what is unresolved.
The corridor carries the majority of the country's domestic freight. Halving the journey changes the economics of everything sited along it.
Cameroon is a top-five global producer. Whether a record world price reaches the farm gate depends on things the world price does not control.
