China trains Africans with space technologies

Ambassador of Cameroon, Martin Mpana congratulated Cameroonian winner of the prize for the formation on the management of the space programs.

China believes in the growth of Africa. This country has an ambition to accompany the continent in the development of technological applications of the satellites observation and communication.

During a ceremony Tuesday, Academy of Space Technology (CAST) 18 candidates representing 10 countries (Argentina, Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Iraq, Mongolia, Pakistan, Qatar, Sudan and Thailand) received diplomas of end of formation on "the management of the space programs and the technological applications of the satellites".

Two days later, the ambassador of Cameroon in China, Martin Mpana, received in audience the Cameroonian prize winner, Saya Kaigama Moustapha, and Dr. Li Meng from CAST. He sought "to know contours of this formation, to evaluate the advantages for our country in order to return account to the appropriate authority ", the diplomat underlines

For Saya Kaigama Moustapha "various technologies and space applications to the service of durable development were exposed and developed during this formation and a particular stress was laid on the technology transfer between the participating countries and China".

This formation, within the CAST, aimed also to make live with the participants the conditions and procedures of applications of space technologies on education, health, agriculture, telecommunications, national safety, the E-government, the management of the natural disasters (floods, fires, deforestation), the natural stock management (study of the hydrographic network, management of the forestry development and mining, pieces agricultural and mining, occupation of the ground, cartographies geological), management of the infrastructures and the equipment (motorways, stoppings, ports…).

It was also meant for Cameroon to really benefit from the advantages of technologies and satellite applications, it would be interesting that it already plans to set up a national space program by 2020.