December 5, 2023

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund, the concessional lending arm of the African Development Bank Group, has approved $75.35 million in grant funding to Rwanda and Burundi to build cross-border corridors, boosting linkages between these two neighbouring countries in Africa’s Great Lakes Region. Funding for the first phase of the East African Community Cross-Border Roads

The development objective of the Rural Electricity Access Project for Underserved Regions Project for Cameroon is to increase electricity access in underserved regions of Cameroon. The project comprises of five components. The first component, rural electrification by grid extension consists of two sub-components: (i) rural electrification by extension of medium voltage and low voltage (MV

Cameroon has received a €73.4 million (US$80 million) loan from the African Development Bank to build a bridge across the River Ntem, which forms a natural boundary with Equatorial Guinea. The bridge building is part of the Regional Trade and Transport Facilitation Project for the economic corridor between Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The new

At the centre of Cameroonian artist Salifou Lindou’s first solo exhibition in London is a series of paintings showing politicians dressed in striped suits. It is a recurring theme stemming from his childhood. “I remember that every time I saw politicians on the TV, they were dressed in a western fashion, mostly in striped suits.

Yaoundé – Nicole, 28, from Bertoua in eastern Cameroon, will never forget that day in 2019 when her doctor at Batouri Catholic Hospital told her she was HIV-positive. She had gone for a medical check-up a few days previously after feeling ill, but HIV was the furthest thing from her mind. She froze, she recalls, wondering

Gunmen attacked before dawn, burning houses as people slept. No group has claimed responsibility. Anglophone separatists have killed at least 20 people, and injured another 10, in a dawn raid in western Cameroon. The gunmen attacked the village of Egbekaw, a neighbourhood in the town of Mamfe, setting houses on fire and killing men, women