Article: Cameroon : China s Sinohydro has deal for Cameroon dam project.

Byline: shiv03

Chinese construction company Sinohydro has reached a preliminary agreement to take over the 200 Megawatt Memve'ele hydropower station in southern Cameroon, the project manager there said on Monday.

It is the latest deal in Africa signed by Sinohydro, which earlier this year announced a road project in Gabon and which has been rebuilding infrastructure in Angola since the end of its civil war in 2002.

Sinohydro "is replacing Globeleq/Sud Energie, a British firm that backed out of the project in May," said Gerard-Paul Onji'I Esono, head of communications for the Memve'ele project, due to cost 556 million euros ($795 million).

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