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The operation with a five-year maturity, we learn, aims to raise on the Douala Stock Exchange (DSX), the country's stock exchange, financing for an amount of XAF 130 billion. The interest rate to be applied in this new public offering has yet to be determined.

However, it is possible to imagine that this interest rate will be set around 5.5% at least, like the previous operations of this type carried out on the local stock market; or even slightly higher, in view of the current economic environment marked by the fall in world prices for raw materials, which has led to a slowdown in economic activity and consequently a reduction in saving.

This new non concessional public offering comes to swell the country's level of borrowing, which has exceeded 30% of GDP in the 2nd quarter of 2017; and subjects the country to the recriminations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with whom Cameroon is once again under a structural adjustment programme since 26 June 2017.