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Cameroon Calling: Air Algerie Performs Its 1st Flight To Douala

Simple Flying | Johannesburg, Addis Ababa, and Douala in two months! The carrier is boosting its connections in Africa. Air Algérie has launched its inaugural flight between Algiers and Douala, connecting North Africa to Cameroon for the first time. The new air link aims to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation …

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Cameroon counts 900,000+ crypto users, 11th largest population in Africa (study)

Business in Cameroon | Cameroon counts almost 900,000 cryptocurrency users, representing 6.76% of its active population. The figure is contained in a study on the development of cryptocurrency and Ponzi schemes in the country, presented in Yaoundé, last August 24. This makes Cameroon the 11th African country with the most …

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Cameroon Suspends Work Contracts; Foreign Workers There Illegally Must Leave

VOA | Officials in Cameroon suspended the work contracts of several thousand foreign workers, including Africans, Chinese and Europeans, and ordered them to obtain work permits and pay taxes within a month or leave the country. The Cameroon government said that only about 100 of more than 2,000 foreign workers …

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Cameroon suffers another downgrade, this time by Standard and Poor’s

The Africa Report | The world’s leading credit rating agency has downgraded Cameroon’s sovereign rating by six points, a steeper downgrade than that by Moody’s two weeks earlier. Standard and Poor’s (S&P) downgraded Cameroon’s long- and short-term foreign currency sovereign rating by six notches on 8 August, from B-/B (highly speculative) to …

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Cameroon’s Corporate Tax Rate Ranks in Top 20 Globally

Tax Foundation | In a recent survey of 225 distinct regions for the year 2022, it was found that 142 regions have corporate tax rates that are 25 percent or less. Meanwhile, 118 of these jurisdictions impose tax rates that exceed 20 percent but don’t surpass 30 percent. The median …

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Des anciens employés du chantier naval CNIC réclament le paiement de leurs droits

RFI | Plusieurs centaines d’anciens employés temporaires du chantier naval CNIC – l’une des plus grosses entreprises publiques et dont le siège se trouve dans l’enceinte portuaire de Douala – manifestent depuis deux semaines devant le ministère des Finances à Yaoundé. Ils revendiquent le payement de leurs droits depuis l’arrêt …

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