By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Ecomatin
The Cameroonian government is preparing to scrap a 10% levy on locally produced maize intended for livestock feed. The tax relief aims to reduce farmers’ costs amid rising prices for poultry products, reports Ecomatin.
Cameroon, Nigeria and Benin are preparing to connect their customs systems with support from Afreximbank. The project aims to facilitate trade at the borders, in a context where intra-African trade remains limited compared with trade with the rest of the world, reports Ecomatin.
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Cameroon wants to register at least 500,000 land titles by 2030 to secure agricultural land. Less than 1% of municipalities currently have a digitised cadastral plan, while land is among the sectors regularly criticised for corruption, reports Ecomatin.
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The Cameroonian government has activated its emergency response system to prevent the Ebola virus from entering the country, after a case was confirmed in Nigeria in a diplomat who arrived from Uganda. Nigerian authorities have identified 44 contacts and stepped up health checks, while Cameroon’s health ministry prepares its response, Journal du Cameroun reports.
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New enrolments in Cameroon’s voluntary insurance scheme, aimed at self-employed and informal workers, have fallen by more than a quarter in a year. The National Social Insurance Fund wants to expand benefits to make the scheme more attractive, according to data released by the CNPS.
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Globeleq records CFA6.3bn in interest owed by CameroonPower producer Globeleq recorded $10.8 million, or about 6.3 billion CFA francs, in interest in 2025 on receivables linked to the transmission lines of the Kribi and Dibamba power plants. The amounts are owed by the Cameroonian state, and the average effective interest rate remained at 26.3%, according to Globeleq Africa Holdings’ accounts filed in the UK on 20 October 2026.
Congo court gives positive assessment of 2025 budget executionThe Court of Accounts and Budgetary Discipline of Congo-Brazzaville considers that the government executed the 2025 state budget under good conditions. Its rapporteur, Emmanuel Kamba, presented this assessment to the National Assembly’s finance committee, which is to examine the 2027 budget before the 2025 budget settlement law is put to a vote, Vox reports.The week in Africa
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