Cameroon’s newly constructed National Assembly headquarters building was inaugurated on 30 November 2024. The inauguration ceremony was presided over by Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, President of the National Assembly. The building, on which construction work has just been completed, is being put into service at a time when MPs are meeting in ordinary session. This session is primarily devoted to examining and adopting the Finance Act for the 2025 financial year.
The Cameroonian authorities have inaugurated the new National Assembly building in Yaoundé. Entirely financed by the Chinese government to the tune of 60 billion CFA francs, this building is part of a drive to modernise parliamentary infrastructures in Cameroon. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, the building includes meeting rooms, an ultra-modern hemicycle, and workspaces designed to improve working conditions for MPs.
Today, in fact, to proceed to the inauguration of the National Assembly, the People’s Republic of China of this important palace now the new headquarters of the National Assembly of Cameroon. I have already heard that this palace is the largest, the most beautiful and the most comparable in the whole of Africa.
Cavaye Yeguie Djibril,, President of the National Assembly
The project is also part of a broader vision of strategic partnership between China and Cameroon, covering various sectors such as infrastructure, health and education. The new palace of the National Assembly of Cameroon reflects the rich and fruitful bilateral cooperation between Cameroon and China.
At the end of several high-level meetings between the Cameroonian and Chinese parties, culminating in the signing of the preliminary outline project and the detailed preliminary project, the Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development was authorised by the Head of State to proceed on 18 April 2019. To the signature with the ambassador of China in Cameroon with the agreement of implementation of the project.
Datouo Théodore , Parliamentarian
Construction work on this structure took five years. Cameroon and China signed a financial agreement in September 2017. The government of the People’s Republic of China was responsible for the construction and financing of this building. This was done with the help of the Chinese company Beijing Urban Construction Group.