Economy Of Cameroon's Capital City

The city’s economy is mainly based on the administrative system of the diplomatic services and the civil service. It is because of these important central structures that the city prides itself on higher living and security standards compared to other regions in Cameroon. Some of Yaoundé’s major industries include glass goods, dairy products, lumber, clay, tobacco, and beer. The city is also a regional center for the distribution of copra, rubber, cocoa, coffee, and sugar cane. The city’s residents employ urban agriculture; it is believed that there are more than a million chickens and about 50,000 pigs in Yaoundé. Unfortunately, frequent floods kept disrupting the city about 15 to 20 times each year negatively impacting the lives of up to 100,000 citizens at a time. In 2010, Jean Claude Adjessa Melingui the mayor then started a flood reduction project. Four years later, flooding in Yaoundé has been reducing from 15 times a year to three. Additionally, cases of water-borne diseases such as malaria and typhoid reducing to almost half.