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With its hydroelectric plants hobbled by drought, the country is courting investors to grow a more stable solar energy supply

* Drought curbs Cameroon's hydropower-heavy electricity supply * Cameroonians suffer near-daily blackouts and power rationing * New solar energy projects will get 10-year tax breaks By Elias Ntungwe Ngalame Before the University of Yaounde 1 got its solar micro-grid in 2018, erratic power supplies in Cameroon's capital meant Adamu Gilbert could not stock the fresh, chilled items he knew his customers wanted when they came to his shop near campus.

Since 2011, violent attacks by armed opposition groups and the counterinsurgency operations of the Nigerian army have forced hundreds of thousands of people from northeast Nigeria to seek refuge in Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

Cameroon's rising inflation is starting to worry the National Institute of Statistics (INS). In a recent note, the public entity warned that if the

Air traffic controllers 'lost radio contact with the aircraft' which was later 'located in the forest' near Nanga Eboko, around 90 miles northeast of the capital Yaounde. (File image)