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Subsidy removal cripples fuel smuggling across Nigerian borders – Businessday Online
The once lucrative business of fuel smuggling along the Nigeria/Cameroon border in Adamawa and most border towns in Nigeria has been crippled following the recent removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. Investigation by the News Agency of …
DJ SW Cameroon Cocoa Prices Dip As Crops Reach Markets-Farmers, Traders – MENAFN
YAOUNDE, Cameroon, Jan 12, 2012 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) — A kilogram of cocoa beans sells this week at XAF700-850 in Cameroon’s leading cocoa-growing South-West Region, down from XAF700-930/kg the crop sold for nearly a month back, farmers … Continue reading
Cameron runs into a new critic of high-speed rail: his father-in-law – The Independent
David Cameron is facing opposition to the Government’s contentious high-speed rail plans from within his own family, with his father-in-law attacking the scheme in print. Viscount Astor, a Conservative peer and stepfather of the Prime Minister’s wife …
Herpes and other viruses in illegally imported “bushmeat”
Numerous viruses, including herpes, are transported through American airports in illegal meat. BOSTON — Billions of animals come into the United States every decade, but few of them are ever tested for disease. That is worrisome, if the results of … Continue reading
Cameroon’s Kribi plant set to start from Q1 2013
YAOUNDE Jan 11 (Reuters) – Construction of Cameroon’s 216 MW Kribi gas-fired power plant should go operational in the first quarter of 2013, the general manager of the country’s lone public power supply company AES-Sonel said on Wednesday. “I am … Continue reading
Scotland’s Companies Ask Nationalists to Spell Out What Independence Means – Bloomberg
Salmond said yesterday he plans to hold the plebiscite in the second half of 2014, while Prime Minister David Cameron wants it held earlier … A key SNP policy is for Scotland to generate all its electricity needs by 2020 … Continue reading
Spurs sink Everton to fire title challenge
LONDON — Tottenham’s surprise challenge for the Premier League title gathered pace as a 2-0 win over Everton moved the north Londoners within three points of leaders Manchester City on Wednesday. Harry Redknapp’s side are now level on points with … Continue reading
AES Cameroon Key Electricity Plant To Start Early-2013 -Executive – NASDAQ
… Standard Chartered Bank and Afriland First Bank, will provide the remaining 25%, which will be repaid over 14 years. “This is a key project which will allow the electricity chain in Cameroon to be firm before the other projects … Continue reading
"West & Central Africa Telecommunications Report Q1 2012" now available at Fast Market Research – PR Inside
s Q4 2011 report on the telecommunications markets of West and Central Africa contains the latest five-year forecasts for the fixed-line telephony, mobile subscriber and internet sectors of seven countries: Cameroon, C?te d?Ivoire, the Democratic Republic …
New market study, "Cameroon Agribusiness Report Q1 2012", has been published – PR Inside
On the downside, disease and corruption are identified as key risks to the advancement of Cameroon’s cocoa and coffee industries. Meanwhile, we anticipate positive consumption growth for all of Cameroon’s agricultural sectors, with the exception of coffee …
