2027 budget: Government plans 600 billion CFA francs to pay domestic debt

Cameroon’s government plans to allocate 600 billion CFA francs to settling domestic debt in 2027, Finance Minister Louis Paul Motaze said at a cabinet meeting in Yaoundé on October 27. He did not specify how much would go toward financial debt repayments versus arrears owed to public and private creditors. The proposal remains subject to presidential review before the finance bill is sent to Parliament; Motaze also announced that the state budget would rise in 2027 but gave no overall figure. Treasury payment arrears stood at 703.5 billion CFA francs at the end of June 2026, including 588.4 billion outstanding for more than three months, according to the Autonomous Sinking Fund.