(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon plans to commission the first 60 kilometers of the Yaoundé-Douala highway before the AFCON2021, which will start in January 2022. This was revealed by Benoît Parfait Mbole Mbole, Head of the Infrastructures Department of the Ministry of Public Works during a field visit on April 6, 2021.
However, to fulfill its ambition, the country will have to address numerous challenges. For instance, it will have to complete the construction of the first section of the highway (according to the control mission Scet-Tunisie/Louis-Berger, the section is 98% completed).
Also, the connection facilities need to be completed to connect the first section to the Yaoundé road axis and the Nationale 3 (at Boumnyebel). Next, the country will have to build functional infrastructure (tolls, weighing stations, rest and service areas as well as emergency lanes), and sign a concession contract for the operation of this section of the highway.
ride. dan: that s what we re doing, right? anthony: all the way to the atlantic? dan: you didn t tell them yet? anthony: i don t think we have enough spam, gentlemen. a half day s journey downriver, there s a local dignitary we ve promised to visit. we arrive, late, but the king is still waiting for us, traditional head gear, not so traditional suit. the medals, given by the belgians, proving his royal lineage. horeb: uh, this place belongs to the bambole ethnic group.
horeb: uh, this place belongs to the bambole ethnic group. anthony: and he is the king? horeb: my father ruled from 1928 and i come after him in 1963. anthony: that s a lot of history. incredible. we give him a goat as a way of saying i m sorry for being so late, and sorry we can t stay longer. and he gives me a simple, yet hefty looking bracelet, which only later do i come to appreciate for what it is. now horeb told me this goes back to, uh, arab, portuguese times. it was arabs who taught them how to do this, so they wear them on their wrists and their ankles.