FRENCH AMBASSADOR RECEIVED AT MINRESI

On Thursday November 7, 2024, the Minister of Scientific Research and Innovation Dr Madeleine Tchuinte granted an audience to the French Ambassador in Cameroon, His ExcellencyThierry Marchand. The Ambassador H.E. Thierry MARCHAND was accompanied by the Country Director of the French Development Agency (AFD),Virginie DAGO, the Resident Representative of IRD in Cameroon,Dr Télesphore Sime Ngando and the  Attaché for Scientific and University Cooperation of the French Embassy, Professor Stephanie Mailles Viard.

The aim of the audience was to examine, the level of scientific and technical cooperation between the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation (MINRESI) and the French government, with emphasis on the construction of the Environmental Biogeosciences Research Center (CBE) in Nkolbisson under the C2D Programme. This center will go a long way to support research on climate and the environment. The audience was also an opportunity to revisit excellent cooperation ties between MINRESI and French institutions in Cameroon, particularly with the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Research Institute for Development (IRD).

After the audience which lasted for closed to an hour, the Country Director of AFD-Cameroon, Virginie DAGO in an interview disclosed that the main purpose of the meeting at the request of the Minister of Scientific Research and Innovation, was to take stock of the progress in the mobilisation of funds,so that the construction of the Environmental Biogeosciences Research Center under the C2D Programme becomes a reality as quickly as possible.

Celcom/MINRESI