(Investir au Cameroun) – Coris Bank International franchit une nouvelle étape dans son projet d’implantation au Cameroun. Selon une annonce légale consultée par Investir au Cameroun, le groupe bancaire burkinabè a constitué sa filiale locale sous la dénomination Coris Bank International Cameroun, en abrégé CBI CM. La nouvelle entité est une société anonyme avec conseil d’administration, dotée d’un capital social de 26 milliards de FCFA.

Basée à Douala, dans le quartier Akwa, la société a pour objet l’exercice des activités classiques d’un établissement de crédit. Ses statuts couvrent notamment la collecte des dépôts, l’octroi de crédits, les opérations de financement, les engagements par signature, les placements, les prises de participation, ainsi que l’émission de moyens de paiement. L’annonce légale prévoit également l’exercice d’activités de finance islamique à travers une branche dédiée.

La constitution juridique de CBI CM ne signifie toutefois pas encore le lancement effectif des opérations bancaires. Celui-ci reste conditionné à l’obtention des autorisations nécessaires auprès des autorités compétentes, notamment la Commission bancaire de l’Afrique centrale (COBAC) et le ministère camerounais des Finances.

Une équipe dirigeante déjà constituée

Coris Bank International a également désigné les premiers dirigeants de sa filiale camerounaise. La présidence du conseil d’administration a été confiée à Alice Dakuyo épouse Kaboré. La direction générale sera assurée par Lionel Wenceslas Ouedraogo Parengmanba, assisté de Ling Namou, nommé directeur général adjoint.

Le conseil d’administration comprend également Iboudo Ablasse Wend-Gouda, Nassa Abdoul Aziz, Kouame Jean-Baptiste Patrick Ghislain, Mahamat Moustapha Masri et Kotto Ndoumbe Samuel. Ces nominations installent l’architecture de gouvernance de la future banque, en attendant le feu vert réglementaire pour le démarrage des activités.

Cette étape intervient plusieurs mois après le dépôt, par Coris Bank International, d’une demande d’agrément auprès des autorités de supervision. Comme l’avait révélé Investir au Cameroun, le groupe avait engagé les procédures nécessaires pour obtenir l’autorisation d’exercer sur le marché camerounais.

L’agrément unique peut accélérer l’implantation, sans l’automatiser

L’entrée de Coris au Cameroun intervient dans un contexte réglementaire plus favorable à l’expansion régionale des groupes bancaires déjà présents dans la Cemac. Depuis le 1er janvier 2025, le règlement n°01/24/CEMAC/UMAC/COBAC sur l’agrément unique des établissements de crédit est entré en vigueur. Ce dispositif vise à faciliter l’implantation d’établissements déjà agréés dans un État membre de la Cemac, sous réserve des modalités fixées par la COBAC.

Coris Bank International dispose déjà d’une présence dans la sous-région à travers le Tchad, où le groupe a lancé sa filiale après la reprise des activités locales de Société Générale. Cette implantation tchadienne lui donne une porte d’entrée en zone Cemac et pourrait soutenir ses démarches d’expansion vers le Cameroun.

Le groupe prépare d’ailleurs son arrivée opérationnelle. Selon des informations obtenues par Investir au Cameroun, son siège de Ouagadougou a récemment accueilli une réunion consacrée à l’intégration de la future filiale camerounaise à Gimacpay, la plateforme régionale de paiements interopérables. Cette préparation laisse penser que Coris veut être rapidement opérationnelle une fois les autorisations obtenues.

Un marché camerounais convoité

Une fois agréée, Coris Bank International Cameroun rejoindra l’un des marchés bancaires les plus disputés de la Cemac. Le Cameroun demeure le principal centre bancaire de la sous-région, par la taille de son économie, le volume des crédits distribués et la densité de son réseau bancaire.

Les données récentes de la BEAC confirment le poids du pays dans le financement bancaire régional. Au quatrième trimestre 2025, le Cameroun a absorbé 1 922,4 milliards de FCFA sur 3 007,1 milliards de FCFA de nouveaux crédits distribués dans la Cemac, soit 63,93 % du total, devant le Gabon, le Congo, le Tchad, la Guinée équatoriale et la République centrafricaine.

L’arrivée de Coris renforcerait donc la concurrence sur un marché déjà animé par les grands groupes bancaires panafricains, les filiales de banques marocaines, les établissements locaux et les banques à capitaux publics. Pour le groupe burkinabè, l’enjeu sera de se faire une place dans un environnement mature, où la conquête de parts de marché passera autant par le financement des entreprises que par les services digitaux, les paiements interopérables et les produits spécialisés, notamment la finance islamique.

La constitution de CBI CM marque ainsi une étape importante, mais pas encore le point d’arrivée. Coris dispose désormais d’une structure juridique, d’un capital et d’une gouvernance au Cameroun. Il lui reste à obtenir l’agrément bancaire et à transformer cette implantation administrative en présence commerciale effective.

Amina Malloum

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Un grave accident est survenu ce mercredi 1er juillet 2026 sur l’axe Foumban–Foumbot au lieu-dit Carrefour Ferme à Baïgom.

Encore un accident qui endeuille le Cameroun. Ce mercredi 1er juillet, un bus de 70 places, en provenance de Foumban et à destination de Douala, a été impliqué dans le drame. Selon le témoignage d’un rescapé, cité par Cameroon Tribune, le chauffeur aurait perdu le contrôle du véhicule.

Quatre personnes auraient perdu la vie et de 26 autres blessées. Les victimes ont été prises en charge à l’hôpital de district de Foumbot, tandis que certains blessés ont été transférés au Centre hospitalier de Bafoussam, rapporte la même source. Le chauffeur serait conduit au commissariat principal de Foumbot.

Pour éviter les accidents de circulation en ces périodes de vacances, le ministère des transports a lancé une campagne spéciale pour renforcer la sécurité routière.

BEIJING, July 1 (Xinhua) — Since its founding 105 years ago, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has kept standing at the forefront of China’s transformation, leading the country through construction to become one of the world’s foremost economic powers.

Now with more than 101 million members, the CPC is steering the country on a new journey toward modernization by building on decades of development.

What has enabled the CPC to remain vibrant and resilient for more than a century? How has it mobilized the wisdom and strength of the Chinese people to achieve such remarkable progress? And what does its governance experience reveal about effective leadership in a rapidly changing world?

PEOPLE-CENTERED PHILOSOPHY

The CPC, since its founding, has made seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation its mission. This commitment has remained at the heart of its governance philosophy.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, has said, « The aspirations of the people to live a better life must always be the focus of our efforts. » He also urged all party members to bear in mind that « the country is the people and the people are the country. »

Poverty alleviation has long been a priority for the Party. The hard-won achievements in this endeavor have brought real changes to numerous people struggling with poverty.

Perched at an altitude of 1,600 meters in the mountains of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the clifftop village of Atulie’er gained nationwide attention for its rugged location. Until a decade ago, villagers had to climb zigzag rattan ladders clinging to steep cliffs to reach classrooms, markets and medical facilities.

As a nationwide targeted poverty alleviation campaign progressed, a steel ladder with handrails replaced the rattan ladders in 2016, significantly improving villagers’ daily lives. Many families were later relocated to apartment complexes in a nearby county. Since then, the village has developed tourism and cultivated agricultural specialties as new sources of income.

Mouse Labo steps down the steel ladder to receive a tourist at Atulie’er Village, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Nov. 24, 2019. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)

The transformation of Atulie’er is emblematic of China’s drive to shake off extreme poverty. After an eight-year relentless campaign, the country lifted all of its 98.99 million impoverished rural residents out of poverty by the end of 2020, eradicating absolute poverty that had long plagued the nation.

While poverty alleviation stands as a major achievement, it is part of a wider effort to improve people’s livelihoods. Over the years, China has built the largest education, social security, and healthcare systems in the world. It has also made historic progress in ecological conservation and environmental protection.

« While all countries advocate helping their people, in China, one can trace the people-centered philosophy directly to specific policy initiatives, » said Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of the Kuhn Foundation.

Dennis Munene Mwaniki, executive director of the China-Africa Center at Kenya’s Africa Policy Institute, said that China’s governance focuses on designing and implementing policies that are people-centric in nature to ensure everyone can benefit from development.

Mwaniki said China’s governance practices — including its whole-process people’s democracy — offer an alternative to the Western development model, which he described as « capital-centered rather than people-centered. »

KEEPING PACE WITH THE TIMES

Reform has been a defining feature of the CPC in its striving to bring better lives to the Chinese people. The Party has addressed development challenges through comprehensively deepening reform, while pursuing self-reform to enhance its governing capacity.

Since the reform and opening-up in 1978, China has undergone profound transformations. Having achieved tremendous success from humble beginnings, reform efforts have now entered a « deep-water zone. » Xi once compared the remaining difficult reforms as « tough bones that are hard to chew. »

Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, the drive to comprehensively deepen reform has expanded across the economy, innovation, people’s livelihoods, opening-up and governance.

Customers try a toy printed by a 3D printer at a flagship store in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, June 3, 2026. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)

Take the economy as an example. To remove barriers to a unified market and stimulate market innovation, the country has implemented the negative list approach for market access. Through successive revisions over several years, the number of items on the list has been reduced from 151 in the 2018 version to 106 at present, a decrease of about 30 percent.

In 2024, the third plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee adopted overarching plans to comprehensively deepen reforms and announced more than 300 major reform tasks to be completed by 2029.

As reforms have advanced into more complex stages, the CPC views full and rigorous governance of the Party as an essential guarantee. Under the banner of self-reform, the CPC has made persistent efforts to improve Party conduct, build a clean government and fight corruption.

Between December 2012 and May 2021, the CPC discipline inspection and supervisory authorities investigated 392 officials at or above the provincial and ministerial level and about 22,000 department and bureau level officials. Punishments for more than 626,500 violations of Party conduct rules were also handed down during the period.

Chayanant Tiyatrakarnchai, a Thai senator, said the CPC has not become complacent after decades in power, but has continued to strengthen itself in response to the changing times and the evolving expectations of the people.

Juvenal Quicassa, an international relations expert at the University of Belas of Angola, highlighted the CPC’s ongoing efforts to build the systems and measures to ensure that officials do not dare to be, are not able to be, and do not want to be corrupt.

« In my assessment, one of the reasons why the CPC continues to demonstrate vitality after more than a century of existence lies precisely in its capacity for adaptation, self-correction and maintenance of high levels of organizational discipline, » said Quicassa.

EXCHANGES FOR BETTER GOVERNANCE

Roughly two weeks ago, British Ambassador to China Peter Wilson visited Yan’an, an old revolutionary heartland of the CPC in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. He described the journey as « important » for gaining a better understanding of China and the CPC.

At the Yan’an Revolutionary Memorial Hall, he lingered over the old photographs and exhibits showing the life and struggle of revolutionaries of the older generation.

British Ambassador to China Peter Wilson (front) visits a former revolutionary site at Yangjialing in Yan’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, June 17, 2026. (Xinhua/Shao Rui)

Wilson also visited Liangjiahe, a village where Xi lived and worked as an educated youth for seven years. He heard villagers recount what life was like in the old days and how their lives have changed, and photographed a cave dwelling that bears Chinese characters meaning « hard work » and « self-reliance » on its exterior wall.

Starting from a small party with just over 50 members, the CPC was little understood by the outside world for quite a long time. As the world has witnessed its remarkable transformation in recent decades, more and more people worldwide have shown a growing interest in China’s governance model.

Amid a wave of visits to China by foreign leaders this year, many have traveled beyond Beijing to explore the country’s development experience firsthand — in areas ranging from modernization and poverty reduction to ecological protection. Their itineraries covered robotics companies, rural communities, and Xiong’an New Area, which is dubbed China’s « city of the future. »

« China develops its own development and governance path that fits its own conditions, » differing from traditional Western-led models and offering inspiration for Global South countries to chart their own distinctive governance path, said Mwaniki, the Kenyan scholar.

Rather than advocating a one-size-fits-all model, China has emphasized exchanges and mutual learning through platforms such as the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-level Meeting and the publication of « Xi Jinping: The Governance of China » in many languages.

China’s poverty alleviation experience is also gaining traction in Africa. In Ethiopia’s Oromia Region, a three-year agricultural cooperation project launched in 2024 has delivered modern farming techniques and training to the village of Godino Jitu, where residents report a marked rise in crop yields.

Abu Negash (L), with a newly-harvested ear of corn, poses for a photo with his son and a Chinese agricultural expert at Godino Jitu Village in Oromia Region, Ethiopia, on Nov. 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Fangqiang)

« By vigorously promoting dialogue and cooperation among political parties worldwide, the CPC is playing a constructive and forward-looking role in enriching global governance practices and contributing valuable public goods to the international community, » said Adhere Cavince, a Kenya-based international relations scholar.

« In an era of global uncertainty, the CPC’s actions serve as a vital bridge, fostering trust, reducing misunderstandings, and amplifying the voice of developing countries in global affairs, » he added.■