Healthtech & AI in Cameroon: Waspito, a Cameroonian healthtech startup, won the $250,000 Grand LEAP Award at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, scaling a platform that links patients, doctors and payers, plus an AI health service accessible via WhatsApp. Digital connectivity at airports: MTN Cameroon and ITGStore secured a CFA1.38bn contract to install wireless and SD-WAN networks at six airports under the World Bank-backed PATNUC digital transformation push. Energy infrastructure: SCDP plans to invest CFA11.65bn (incl. taxes) to build an LPG logistics hub at Bonabéri depot in Douala, adding road/rail loading capacity and new storage facilities. Agriculture & traceability: ONCC and Germany’s Cooko renewed a three-year cocoa traceability partnership in Douala, focusing on farm mapping, geospatial monitoring and producer income support. Urban resilience planning: Cameroon and UN-Habitat mapped smart cities and climate resilience priorities for 2027–2030, reviewing progress on urban governance and slum upgrading. Public health delivery: eHealth Africa says it supported vaccination of 23m children in 15 northern Nigerian states using digital tracking and lab/public health coordination systems. Trade digitisation: Cameroon’s SME and EU talks in Yaoundé highlighted financing, digitalisation and value-chain support, while Nigeria and Benin launched CDES to track transit goods in real time at the Seme-Krake border. Research & science exchange: GCU students and professors presented Cameroon-linked research at the American Scientific Affiliation conference, spanning genetic editing ethics, indigenous knowledge mapping and water-quality studies.