Cameroon: Yaounde to Host Maiden African Investment Forum

Posted to the web 7 July 2008 Leocadia Bongben From July 8-11, Yaounde will host the maiden African Industrial Investment with the amelioration of access to sources of finance for African enterprises as major challenge. The forum launched by the Minister of Mines Industries and Technological Development, Badel Ndanga Nginga on June 30, provides an opportunity for the creation of an investment fund to support enterprises during the first years of creation, the Technical Coordinator of the forum, Nicolas Happiy Nya disclosed. The forum which will take place under the theme, 'Investment and industrial partnerships in Africa: the state of affairs and perspectives' would provide an avenue of self evaluation and business investment. It would also provide an avenue to elaborate strategies of integration of production structures and... [read full story]