| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/08/01, 10:28 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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YAOUNDE, Aug 1 2013 (IPS) - The Kribi Seaport on the coast of southern Cameroon is destined to become a mega harbour to serve all of Central Africa. But there is little chance that locals, particularly engineers and scientists, will benefit much from the 567 million dollar development.
With Cameroon only providing 15 percent of the construction cost and China funding the remaining 85 percent, the port is presently under construction by the China Harbour Engineering Company.
But experts say that Cameroonians lack the professional training that is needed to work on these projects and will miss out on important employment opportunities.
“Despite Chinese investment in terms of infrastructure and technology, [this will not] benefit the growing educated and unemployed population in Cameroon who lack the appropriate professional training to be absorbed by these projects. At the moment the country needs … engineers, doctors, and scientists,” Mengnjo Anselm Sahngeh, an economic policy analyst in Cameroon, tells IPS.
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