Ambam

Ambam is a town and community found in the South Province of Cameroon on the border of Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. This town is located approximately 220 km from Yaoundé and as of 2005 had a population of 1,596. Traditionally it had traded with its neighbouring countries across the border. The Fang are the main ethnic group that resides here.

This town was once occupied by the Germans under the nation of Kamerun. The Germans built several administrative buildings in Ambam as it was of strategic importance.

On 14^th December 2000, a proposal of new road building intended to connect Ambam to Eking on the Gabonese border was passed and signed on 2^nd February 2001. The building of the 27 kilometre road was funded by African Development Foundation (ADF) and the Government of Cameroon was intended to improve socio-economic infrastructure and to improve the institutional capacities of the Ministries of Public Works (MINTP), Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF), and Environment and Protection of Nature (MINEP).

In June 2009, a workshop funded by the European Union and the Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States (CEMAC) met in Ambam to discuss the future of the plantain and the banana industry in the region. In January 2010, the mayor of Ambam, Ela Jolinon Ekoto, was arrested and charged in Ebolowa for the embezzlement of 20 million CFA Francs from the town hall.

Meyo-Centre is a village located in the rural community of Ambam and whose clan is mainly Essamba. It is a crossroads village between Ambam and Ebolowa (capital of the southern province) and its located northwest of the town of Ambam. The National highway 2, connects these two towns also from the main town of Ambam.

It consists of neighbourhoods, N'nam Okuin, Be Ndang, Efono, Mone N'nam Okuin, Onayong, Bikuan Summer Mengomo and is limited by the northwest Ekoum Dum, Dum MFNE south.

This town has a high school, a pharmacy, a clinic, an SAR- (aTechnical institution), a primary school, Post Office, Telecommunications, and a shopping centre.

Other settlements with in the community of Ambam comprise Ntem, Adjap, Aban-Minkoo and Mendjimi. Ambam has a bus station. There are also taxis plying the routes to the small town of Aban-Minkoo and by road to Ebebiyin on the border of Gabon.

German building now used as a school in Ambam

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