Dear subscribers of camerounactuonline.com, good morning and thank you for connecting this morning to read your daily press review. This January 30, 2025, we offer you an overview of the major events that make national news.
Let’s start in the corridors of finance with this strategic partnership signed between the Beac and the Bceao. The Financier d’Afrique on newsstands this morning highlights 4 priority areas. According to its story, the interconnection of payment systems and means, digital transformation and financial inclusion, cyber security and information systems as well as external financial relations are the areas on which the two governors exchanged on January 27, 2025 in Yaoundé.
Meanwhile, the banks’ thirst for liquidity persists in the CEMAC zone, despite the efforts of the Beac. The newspaper Financia on newsstands this morning indicates that the banks of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) continue to display an insatiable appetite for liquidity, despite the restrictive measures put in place by the Bank of Central African States (BEAC).
The newspaper Governance informs us that as a prelude to the 59th edition of the Youth Festival, the Minister of Youth and Civic Education, Mounouna Foutsou chaired the protocol opening ceremony of the Cameroonian Youth Dialogue Platform (CYDP) on January 29, 2025, at the Palais Polyvalent des Sports in Yaoundé. An event that aims to provide a space for exchanges between young people, aged 15 to 35, and political decision-makers, in order to discuss the concerns of young people and actively influence development policies adapted to their needs. The youth leader was accompanied by Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Minister of Employment and Vocational Training.
Following the rupture of a major DN 800 pipeline in Noousso, Camwater mobilized to restore the drinking water supply and support the affected families. The General Manager, Blaise Moussa, went to the field to supervise the work and comfort the victims… The details can be read in the columns of the newspaper Le Drapeau.
Thierry Ekouti’s newspaper L’Economie addresses this morning the problem of made in Cameroon whose products remain lost on supermarket shelves. “Locally manufactured products are struggling to reach 30% in large retail stores. Beyond the challenges related to standards and packaging, there are other problems to be solved,” we can read on page 3 of the newspaper.
A few months before the presidential election, an opponent “escapes death”. According to L’Info à Chaud on Newstands, the politician whose identity is in the newspaper, almost lost his life in front of the central police station number 4 in Ekounou. “A motorcycle with two individuals on board came and hit him on the sidewalk believing that he was dead, the occupants of the motorcycle did not even stop,” he relates. Currently, the victim is under observation in a hospital structure.
With Lebledparle