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Cameroon

Cameroon

Relations between Bharat and Cameroon have been friendly and cordial. The Cameroonian leaders appreciate Bharat’s contributions to Africa, its secular democracy and economic progress and the leadership it provided to the Non-Aligned Movement. Cameroon actively supported Indian candidature for the Commonwealth Secretary General. The High Commissioner in Abuja is concurrently accredited to Cameroon.

 
 

Relations between Bharat and Cameroon have been friendly and cordial. The Cameroonian leaders appreciate Bharat’s contributions to Africa, its secular democracy and economic progress and the leadership it provided to the Non-Aligned Movement. Cameroon actively supported Indian candidature for the Commonwealth Secretary General. The High Commissioner in Abuja is concurrently accredited to Cameroon.

Capacity Building

  • Bharat has been supporting Cameroon’s efforts in capacity building under Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme since 1964. Bharat offers 32 training slots under ITEC to Cameroon annually and during the year all the slots were utilized.  
  • 3 slots have been allocated to Cameroon under the Africa Scholarship Scheme of Indian Council for Cultural Relations ICCR.
  • Consequent to the third India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS-III) held in New Delhi in October 2015, Bharat has been offering additional training programmes to Cameroon in diverse subjects ranging from Agriculture to Hydropower. In 2017-18, 4 Cameroonians have been trained under Bharat-Africa Forum Summit-III (IAFS-III) Programmes in the prominent training Institutes in Bharat.

Technology sharing

A Triangular Development Cooperation Project involving GIZ (Germany), UHSB (Bharat) and IARD (Cameroon) for the pilot project in Cameroon on Potato Seed Production through Rooted Apical Cuttings (RAC) Technology was implemented. This project has been a big success. The successful completion of this project will further enhance cooperation in the agricultural sector.

Grants and Concessional Finance

  • In May 2009, a $ 37.65 million Indian Line of Credit (LoC) for Cameroon funding a project each of Rice and Maize Farm Plantation was operationalized. In September 2012, Bharat and Cameroon signed on a new LOC of $ 42 million for Cassava plantation project in Cameroon.
  • Bharat gifted 60 tractors to Cameroon in 2007. 
  • Cameroon signed a commercial loan agreement with Exim Bank of India worth USD 93.50 million for construction of 225 kV Nkongsamba - Bafoussam and Yaounde – AbongMbang Transmission Line.  The project was handed over to an Indian company “Kalpataru” in November 2019 was completed and handed over to Cameroon in July 2022.
  • Cameroon signed another commercial agreement with EXIM Bank of India worth US$ 164.69 million for construction of project (400 KV, 226 Km transmission lines and two numbers 400/225 KV terminal sub-stations). 
  • Govt. of India has provided 174000 Paracetamol tablets to Govt. and people of Cameroon during COVID-19 pandemic. GoI has provided 391200 doses of made in Bharat vaccines to Cameroon under COVAX scheme to assist in their fight against Covid 19 pandemic.