After Cameroon signed the defence agreement with Russia on 12 April this year, the Western press went wild with a thousand hypotheses as to why the Cameroon Central African country decided to take a Neutral stance without taking sides for this or that country in the war.
Nachtigal Dam Central Africa: Construction progresses at a rate of 14.5% in just 5 months
The hydroelectric company Nachtigal, the administrator of the project in September 2022, stated that the project has already been completed at 74.5%. Last April, progress was estimated at 60%. Over the past few months, construction work has accelerated greatly, with the construction of the dam that will meet the energy consumption of the central region of Cameroon being completed at 74.5%. The construction of the Nachtigal hydroelectric dam, located in Batchenga, is proceeding at a steady pace. The last five months have seen a remarkable development, according to data officialised by the Nachtigal hydro power company (Nhpo) at the end of September 2022. The project company indicates on its website that civil engineering works have already been completed for 74.5%. Otherwise, the progress rate recorded since the first evaluation in April is 14.5%. In other words, the rate of progress recorded since the first appraisal in April 2005 is 14.5%, since at that time the site's execution rate was estimated at 4 60%. This is the best work progress on the site to date. It was the best progress of work on the site in the last ten months. In fact, at the end of the year 2021, when Energy Minister Gaston Eloundou Essomba visited the site, the completion rate was still at 51.7%. The civil works are still to be completed, as is the electromechanical part, which has a completion rate of 69.5%. As for the transmission line and the operating site lots, they have already been completed. The least that can be said is that work on the Nachtigal dam site has never progressed as fast as it has in the last ten months. Over the past two and a half years, the work programme had been severely disrupted by various contingencies, including the Covid-19 pandemic, which inevitably caused delays in the execution of the work, there were also numerous strikes by employees demanding better working conditions. The Nhpc company has been challenged on several occasions by NGOs and affected local communities living in the area. The objections to the project are related to the impact that the dam will have on the environment and for other agreements that the company had made with the local populations and which it has not respected. what do you want to do now? Do you want to stay in Europe with a recession just around the corner, galloping inflation and ever higher gas and electricity costs and a shortage of raw materials, or do you want to get in touch with us to develop your business opportunity in Central Africa? If you would like to know more, fill out the form below and one of our consultants will contact you within 24 hours africaaedic.eu