Cameroon to house the headquarters of the Central Africa Centre of Climatology

Cameroon has been designated to house the headquarters of the Centre d’application et de prévision climatologique d’Afrique centrale (CPAC-AC), learnt APA Wednesday from the competent services of the Ministry of Transport.

This designation comes in the aftermath of the meeting in Yaounde, the capital of the country, with Ministers of the sub-region in charge of meteorology.

A statement by Transport Minister Robert Nkili, welcomed this designation that he described as "diplomatic victory" for his country.

He noted, however, that this designation comes as the meteorology system of the host country, CPAC-AC considerably deteriorated since 1994, marked by a gaudy deficit of human resources, the lack of measurement instruments and consumables weather, a lack of maintenance of the equipment and means of transmittal, very advanced degradation of State buildings and weather parks outsized.

Out of the 58 weather stations once installed throughout the territory, only 3, granted to the Agency for the safety of air navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) for the purposes of air navigation work satisfactorily.