As of 29 June 2026, construction of the access roads to the bridge over the Nyong River at Malombo in Nyong-et-Kellé is in its final stages. After completing the pavement work, teams from the company CFHEC have started installing road markings.

The access road construction for the bridge over the Nyong River at Malombo is nearly complete. A few days ago, the company began laying road markings, and drainage work is ongoing. These access roads, stretching 960 metres across both riverbanks, feature a cross-section of 1 x 2 lanes, each 3.5 metres wide, with 1.5-metre shoulders on each side.

The pavement structure of these finished roads consists of a 25 cm lateritic gravel foundation layer, a 20 cm crushed gravel base layer (0/31.5), and a 5 cm asphalt concrete wearing course. As for the bridge structure itself over the Nyong River, work has also reached the finishing phase.

Officials from the Ministry of Public Works are confident that the bridge over the Nyong River at Malombo will be delivered ahead of the contractual deadline—approximately eight months before the originally scheduled completion. By 11 June, the Nyong’s waters had receded to make way for the 160-metre-long structure, whose roadway now awaits only markings. The spans, completed months ago to support the steel-concrete composite twin-girder bridge, now stand ready to carry local residents. Construction of the access roads is also progressing well.

CFHEC will now focus on finalising the work to prepare for project delivery. The project also involves the expertise of the supervision mission, the INTEGC/GENERAL ENGINEERING consortium. At the heart of this orchestration is the project owner, the Minister of Public Works, whose monitoring and support have reassured the company since work began.

The project’s execution was not as calm as the Nyong’s waters: debates over the construction site for the base camp, difficulties in acclimatising the company’s staff, fuel siphoned from company tankers day and night, sometimes hostile actions by local residents toward the company, thefts at the company base, pending payment statements, torrential rains, and rising river floods—none of these finally prevented the company from honouring the commitment made on the day work started: to deliver the structure ahead of schedule, as instructed by the project owner.