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UNCLAS YAOUNDE 001041 
 
STATE FOR S/P Greg Berman and R/PRR Sehreen Noor-Ali 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ECON EAID PREL SOCI KE
SUBJECT:  CAMEROON'S NOMINEES AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PLAN FOR THE 
PRESIDENTIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT 
 
REF: STATE 112468 
 
¶1.  In response to reftel, Embassy Yaounde submits the following 
nominees in rank order of preference for the Presidential 
Entrepreneurship Summit: 
 
Alamine Ousmane Mey 
------------------- 
 
Mr. Alamine Ousmane Mey is the General Manager of the Afriland First 
Bank, one of the largest banks in Cameroon.  Under his leadership, 
Afriland First Bank has facilitated access to banking services and 
finance to develop business in the Cameroon Muslim community. 
Afriland Bank created the Islamic Deposit Account, aiming to 
facilitate access to financial operations by the Muslim community 
with sharia compliant solutions.  Afriland Bank also assists the 
Cameroonian National Hadj Commission and offers Muslims a savings 
plan to finance a trip to the holy places in Mecca. 
 
Ahmadou Moussa 
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Mr. Ahmadou Moussa is the General Manager of the Complexe Avicole de 
Mvog Betsi in Yaound, a private company which specializes in the 
reproduction of chicks using artificial incubation with vials 
imported from Iowa.  A Muslim, Mr. Moussa has extended his business 
to all three regions of the Grand North, employing almost one 
hundred people in Garoua, Maroua and Ngaoundr.  Recently, he 
extended his business to N'djamena, Chad.  His ambition for next 
year is to create an industrial chain of slaughtering which will 
enhance his ability to export chicken.  He is also working on a 
project to create a training school in the Grand North aimed at 
encouraging the Muslim community into professional poultry farming. 
 
 
Mr. Moussa is the President of the Inter Professional Poultry Sector 
Union of Cameroon and President of the Inter Professional Poultry 
Sector Union of Central Africa. He is also member of the Cameroon 
Chamber of Commerce. 
 
Ibrahim Moukouop Nguena 
----------------------- 
 
After graduating from the National Polytechnic Institute in Yaounde 
with an engineering degree in Computer sciences, Mr. Moukoup created 
Megasoft Cameroun in 2000.  A lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute, 
he directs the "Polytech-Valor" project which promotes 
entrepreneurship among young engineers. Himself a young entrepreneur 
from a strong Muslim- influenced community in West Cameroon, he 
encourages young Muslims into entrepreneurship and assists graduates 
in the difficult job market of Cameroon. Mr. Moukouop is also a 
consultant for the International Labor Organization and for the 
National Social Insurance company (CNPS) in Cameroon. 
 
Dalle Seth Biack 
---------------- 
 
Mr. Biack is the management adviser to Cameroon Active Wear Impex 
(CAWER), the first Cameroonian company to take advantage of the AGOA 
textile visa for Cameroon by shipping a container of t-shirts in 
November, 2009.  Mr. Biack expects orders that will allow him to 
send a container a week, a significant export opportunity for 
Cameroon.  He has a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from 
Laval University- Quebec, 1985, and a Masters degree in Management 
of Small and Medium Size Organizations from Quebec University of 
Chicoutimi, 1988. 
 
Musa Usman Ndamba 
----------------- 
 
Mr. Musa Usman Ndamba is a business leader in the Mbororo 
communities of the North West region of Cameroon - a minority 
community with limited access to education and other social 
amenities.  He is President of the Bamenda Economic Operators 
Association, a grouping of over 1,000 small businesses in the area. 
Among his accomplishments is the expansion of the traditional 
"njanji" system of cooperative credit which provides small scale 
financing in the various markets in Bamenda.  His association pools 
small daily savings of its traders into a common account from which 
the traders take turns receiving small loans. 
 
Herman Aghanguh Kamfa 
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Mr. Kamfa founded SOLARHYDROTECH Power Company in Bamenda, Cameroon, 
after graduating from the International University Bamenda in 
Electronics and Electrical Engineering.  His engineering company is 
developing a number of projects, including: recycling computer 
monitors into TV receivers which he resells to poor families in his 
community at affordable prices; micro hydro power for rural 
communities; biomass and waste conversion to energy; and solar 
 
photovoltaic electricity for household lighting and water pumping. 
He invented a solar incubator for premature infants, which is 
currently in use in some hospitals in his community, and he is 
currently working on a project to make solar energy affordable and 
available to remote communities not connected to the national 
electricity grid. 
 
Ikome Efokoa Wegmuller 
---------------------- 
 
Mr. Efokoa is the CEO and founder of Blue Drops Studios, a leader in 
the nascent Cameroonian film industry. He directed and produced the 
film "Not My Will," which portrays the challenges of university 
students in Buea, Cameroon.  Efokoa also produces music videos, 
which have received awards and have been nominated for the Kora All 
Africa Awards 2009. Efokoa is active in promoting the film industry 
in Cameroon, helping facilitate the Fako film festival, organized by 
The French Cultural Center, in Buea. 
 
Paul Kamgang 
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After a career in information technology, most recently as the Chief 
Information Officer for Shell Exploration and Production Cameroon, 
Mr. Kamgang founded African Project Management Consulting, a company 
that specializes in building business capacity and project 
management training.  He created the African Project Management 
Academy, delivering international management  standards courses such 
as PMI, ITIL, and SIX SIGMA. He has helped numerous high profile 
businesses and hundreds of professionals obtain international 
certification in project management standards.  He holds a Masters 
Degree in Computer Science from the National Advanced School of 
Engineering - Yaound. 
 
Patu Jume Shang 
--------------- 
 
Mrs. Shang runs Tadu Dairy, a multipurpose cooperative of more than 
300 farming families aimed at increasing milk and beef production 
and subsequent transformation into value added products.  The 
co-op's new milk processing unit has a 1000-litre capacity and can 
produce yoghurt, butter and cheese.  Tadu Diary trains milk 
collectors, milk processors, and marketing agents to work with its 
innovative collection and distribution system.  Shang has 
implemented modern accounting methods, human resources, quality 
control, and a code of hygiene.  Her artificial insemination program 
has led to notable increases in efficiency and production. 
 
Among Mrs. Shang's other accomplishments are:  helping elaborate 
Sectoral Policy for the Cameroon Ministry of Livestock Under the 
Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiatives in 2001; acting as 
provincial representative of the committee in charge of the 
implementation of the lactoperoxidase system; acting as a promoter 
at the international dairy expo in France and in Senegal in 2005 and 
2008 respectively; acting as President of the Management Board of 
the Jakiri Veterinary School since  November, 2009. 
 
Yves Fokou 
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Educated in engineering at Purdue University, Yves Fokou manages his 
father's lumber and hardware businesses in several countries in 
Central Africa.  Officially, he is the Assistant director of S.C.T.B 
(Societe Camerounaise de Transformation du Bois) and C.E.O of FOBERD 
CONGO, a hardware store which recently opened a supermarket section, 
SOFAPRAL, a wine factory, SFPAL, a construction supply manufacturer, 
and CODECO, a soap and detergent manufacturer.  At the wood 
processing company, he made several improvements in processing 
timber which resulted in avoiding wasted timber and keeping the 
company out of bankruptcy.  Mr. Fokou implements an anti-corruption 
policy in all of his businesses that focuses on ethics, transparency 
and integrity. 
 
Haman-Adji Moussa 
----------------- 
 
Mr. Moussa is a published novelist and predictably quirky inventor. 
His latest innovation is a game for families entitled the "Cameroon 
Game," which aims to educate people about Cameroon's place in the 
world.  A Muslim hailing from the northern Sahel region, Moussa 
originally worked in the airline freight business; if his latest 
foray into the game industry pans out, he promises to follow it with 
the "Obama World Game." 
 
Paul Mbafor 
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Paul is a young entrepreneur who, with his father and brother, 
founded Eshcol Housing And Mortgage Corporation, a real estate 
company. One of the company's projects is to develop an "American 
city" housing community in Mimboman in partnership with 
 
approximately one hundred Cameroonians in the diaspora.  The project 
would attempt to replicate the planned housing developments of the 
U.S.  He led a team of his company's top 4 executives to Embassy 
Yaounde's annual Investment Forum on Projects and Finance held in 
April, 2009 in Washington DC. 
 
 
¶2.  Embassy Yaounde's public diplomacy plan will include: 
 
- A roundtable of entrepreneurs and business leaders hosted by 
Ambassador Garvey in Yaounde or Douala in January; 
- A roundtable of entrepreneurs and business leaders hosted by the 
Ambassador in the Muslim majority Extreme North Region of Cameroon 
in January; 
- A continued dialogue via email on business and entrepreneurship 
issues with roundtable participants and select business leaders; 
- Meeting with entrepreneurs during in-country travel (such as the 
Ambassador's recent visits to dairy and other agricultural 
cooperatives in North West Province). 
- Press coverage for the Entrepreneurship Summit. 
 
¶3.  Mission point of contact for this initiative is Pol/Econ Officer 
Erik Martini, who can be contacted for additional details or 
follow-up with nominees.