External Relations: Diaspora Poised For Cameroon’s Development

Within the framework of collective national development of the State, Cameroonians residing out of the country are coming up with community advancement projects for the wellbeing of citizens. With particular focus on Cameroon-France relations, Cameroonian nationals therein have outlined certain projects aimed at promoting growth back home.

This initiative is said to be an implementation of one of the recommendations resulting from several meetings of the first forum of the Cameroonian Diaspora held in June 2017 in Yaounde. On this note, Cameroonians in France hashed in July 2017 the project dubbed ‘Dias Invest 237’ – a productive investment support programme to the economy. The dispositions are supervised by the Ministry of External Relations with financial support from the France Development Agency (AFD) within the sidelines of the France-Cameroon “corridor.”

To this effect, the Director of the Department of Cameroonians Abroad, Foreigners in Cameroon, Refugees and Migratory Issues, Begala Mikel Naomie &eac...