According to permanent secretary at Cameroon’s economy ministry Paul Tasong, a group of South Korean companies is to draw up a plan to expand the country’s rail network. Rail connections are needed to infrastructure projects such as the Lom Panga hydroelectric reservoir in the east and the Memve’ele hydroelectric project in the south, as well as iron ore and bauxite mines, Tasong said the government wants to regulate the railway system, lay out rules and set standards for potential companies to follow.
Currently Cameroon has one railway line, built during the colonial era. It runs from Nkongsamba via the port city of Douala (172km) to the capital Yaounde (580km), continuing to Ngaoundere in the heart of the country, a total distance of over 1,200km.
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IIRC, only part of the existing railway was built in the colonial era, with more than half built in the 1970s.
An interesting question is whether the Koreans propose to link the existing metre gauge railway with the proposed standard gauge Mbalam iron ore railway.