{"id":235059,"date":"2026-06-01T17:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-alucam-cameroon-returns-to-profit-in-2025-after-record-23-8b-xof-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:15:41","slug":"cameroon-alucam-cameroon-returns-to-profit-in-2025-after-record-23-8b-xof-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-alucam-cameroon-returns-to-profit-in-2025-after-record-23-8b-xof-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Alucam Cameroon Returns to Profit in 2025 After Record 23.8b Xof Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"74\">Cameroon Aluminum Company (Alucam), the country&#8217;s sole primary aluminum producer founded in 1957, returned to profit in 2025 with a net income of 279.3 million XOF, reversing a record loss of 23.8 billion XOF in 2024. EBITDA swung from a deficit of 9.4 billion XOF to a surplus of 14.3 billion XOF, and the operating result improved to a gain of 6 billion XOF from a loss of 18.1 billion XOF a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"109\">The turnaround was driven less by commercial recovery than by 3 one-off items totalling 22&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606010141.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 Aluminum Company (Alucam), the country&#8217;s sole primary aluminum producer founded in 1957, returned to profit in 2025 with a net income of 279.3 million XOF, reversing a record loss of 23.8 billion XOF in 2024. EBITDA swung from a deficit of 9.4 billion XOF to a surplus of 14.3 billion XOF, and the operating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235060,"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":[54509,258,256,54508,4698,377,9183,257,15693,5267,5068,254,54072],"class_list":["post-235059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-23-8b","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alucam","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-loss","tag-news","tag-profit","tag-record","tag-returns","tag-south-africa-today","tag-xof"],"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\/235059","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=235059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}