On December 1, 2024, during the presentation of the government’s economic, financial, social and cultural program for the 2025 budget year to the National Assembly, the Prime Minister revealed that approximately 446 km of roads have been paved or are being paved. being finalised in Cameroon in 2024. The figure revealed by Joseph Dion Ngute is more than 200 km lower than the objective of 656.96 km to be paved in 2024, contained in the Integrated Multimodal Transport Infrastructure Strategy, developed by the government.
This rate of asphalting of roads does not bode well for the achievement of the objectives that the Cameroonian government has set in its National Development Strategy 2020-2030 (SND30). Indeed, this reference document plans to pave 6,000 km of roads over the period, which corresponds to an annual average of 600 km each year.
Pending the achievement of these objectives, at the end of 2023, Cameroon had 10,225.58 km of asphalted roads, according to the Minister of Public Works. Based on this figure revealed by Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi in an interview published on February 2, 2024 in the publicly-owned daily, Cameroon Tribune, asphalted roads in Cameroon represent barely 8.5% of the national network, of a global length of 121,873 km, according to the same source.
Source: Business in Cameroon
