Yves Bertrand Solanga: How Data is driving agricultural Competitiveness, because Power goes Beyond Strength
Mastering a sector begins with mastering the information needed to manage it. In livestock farming, this requirement is particularly important: ensuring herd traceability, protecting productive assets, anticipating risks and improving performance all depend on reliable data. Through LightCow, Yves Bertrand Solanga shows how technology can help make Cameroon’s livestock sector better documented, better managed and […]
Adamou Nchange Kouotou: When Agricultural Data Becomes a Competitiveness Issue
Cameroon has significant agricultural potential, but resources alone do not create a competitive advantage. Between the farm and the market lie crop knowledge, access to finance, risk management, productivity, infrastructure, processing and access to information. Adamou Nchange Kouotou’s trajectory offers a useful perspective on one of the key intersections in this equation: the point at […]
African Maritime Sector: What Claire Onana Takouchop’s Career Reveals About Cameroon’s Potential
A country’s standing in a strategic sector is also reflected in the ability of its professionals to build a presence within the networks where trade, standards and cooperation take shape. Claire Onana Takouchop’s election as National President of Women in Maritime Africa (WIMA) Cameroon in January 2026 brings into focus a career built over the […]
Claude Owona Ekoto: A Cameroonian Figure in the Higher Echelons of African Finance
In its mapping of the people whose achievements can contribute to Cameroon’s rise as a power, Power 237 looks beyond individual success stories to identify positions, expertise and networks with broader strategic significance. Claude Owona Ekoto stands out in this regard. Since July 2026, the Cameroonian banker has served as Regional Industry Manager for the […]
Yves Roger Melingui, the Human Capital Behind a New Industrial Ambition in Kribi
Identifying talent also means understanding the strategic moment in which that talent comes into play. Yves Roger Melingui, the first Managing Director of the Kribi Port Industrial Zone (KPIZ), stands at a turning point for Cameroon: the point at which Kribi’s port advantage must now be converted into industrial capacity, value creation and greater regional […]
Mohamadou Bayero Bounou, a power-building force for Cameroon’s cotton industry
Identifying the skills that can drive lasting territorial development is one of the pillars of the Power 237 approach. In northern Cameroon, Mohamadou Bayero Bounou’s career stands out for its close connection to a sector at the crossroads of production, employment, industry and regional integration. As Managing Director of SODECOTON, the agro-economist has, since 2016, […]
Cameroon-United States: Healthcare as a Driver of a New Strategic Partnership
Cameroon is consolidating its place in the new healthcare cooperation framework that the United States is developing across Africa. The participation of the Minister of Public Health, Malachie Manaouda, in a high-level meeting held in New York on September 21 opens a new chapter in a bilateral partnership already underway between Yaoundé and Washington. A […]
A Hotel Project Serving Cameroon’s Influence
In Bonanjo, All Luxury Suites Group (ALS Group) is developing a hotel and mixed-use complex expected to operate under the Kempinski Hotels brand. With accommodation, work, conference, dining and retail facilities, the project will expand Douala’s capacity to host businesses, investors and professional events. Beyond the real estate operation, it raises a strategic question: how […]
Gabon Turns to Cameroon as AfCFTA Moves from Policy to Practice
In Yaoundé, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has moved beyond being simply an integration project and has become a field of observation. From September 12 to 16, 2026, Gabonese officials from the trade and customs authorities, together with private-sector representatives, came to examine the procedures, institutions and early practices through which Cameroon is […]
Civil Nuclear Power: Cameroon Prepares for a New Energy Challenge
With energy demand set to rise alongside industrialization, Cameroon is opening a new front: civil nuclear power. At the 70th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the country announced a feasibility study and presented its progress in nuclear safety. This approach is in line with the recommendations of Power 237, a book […]