{"id":223974,"date":"2026-02-16T12:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-plans-3-1b-iron-ore-push-starting-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:49:26","slug":"cameroon-plans-3-1b-iron-ore-push-starting-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-plans-3-1b-iron-ore-push-starting-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Plans $3.1b Iron Ore Push Starting 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Cameroon has outlined plans to invest 1,748 billion FCFA in three iron ore projects as part of its 2026-2030 mining strategy. The projects are Kribi-Lob\u00e9 at 431 billion FCFA, Mbalam at 747 billion FCFA, and Bipindi-Grand Zambi at 570 billion FCFA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Mining permits have been issued and operations are scheduled to start in 2026. The three deposits account for most of the new mining cycle set out in the government&#8217;s finance law annex on major projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Mbalam project is the largest in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602160017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon has outlined plans to invest 1,748 billion FCFA in three iron ore projects as part of its 2026-2030 mining strategy. The projects are Kribi-Lob\u00e9 at 431 billion FCFA, Mbalam at 747 billion FCFA, and Bipindi-Grand Zambi at 570 billion FCFA. Mining permits have been issued and operations are scheduled to start in 2026. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[53668,258,256,4698,377,9936,257,32260,5212,6354,254,9683],"class_list":["post-223974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-3-1b","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-iron","tag-news","tag-ore","tag-plans","tag-push","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}