(Business in Cameroon) – Cameroon disbursed a total of 321.9 billion CFA francs to service its debts in the first three months of 2025, according to a public debt status report recently released by the Autonomous Sinkig Fund (CAA). Of this amount, 82 billion CFA francs represented interest payments.
These interest payments alone account for 82% of the funds required for the rehabilitation of the Lagdo Dam, the sole infrastructure of its kind in the northern region of the country.
According to the document from Cameroon’s public debt management agency, 303.7 billion CFA francs were paid to external creditors, including 79.5 billion CFA francs in interest. Domestic creditors, on the other hand, received repayments totaling 18.2 billion CFA francs, of which 2.6 billion CFA francs were interest payments.
Rising by 1.2% compared to the same period in 2024, Cameroon’s public debt service in the first quarter of 2025 constitutes 18.4% of the total amount of 1,753.9 billion CFA francs allocated in the 2025 Finance Law, the CAA’s note emphasized.
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