The bridge will be built between the town of Yagoua in the extreme northeast of Cameroon and the town of Bongor in western Chad. Business News of Tuesday, 9 August 2016Source: cameroononline.orgChad and Cameroon agree to build $127m bridgePlans are in hand for a bridge over the Logone River between Cameroon and Chad, an area that has been called “one of west Africa’s foremost deathtraps”. The AfDB originally wrote a proposal for a 250m, two-lane road bridge into its plans for 2014. The work is expected to cost around $127m, an immense sum for Chad, which has an annual GDP of $13.5bn. Fissou Kouma, The mayor of Yagoua, told CAJ News that more than 500 small boats travelled between Yagoua and Bongor on market days.

Source: CameroonWeb August 09, 2016 16:23 UTC