France’s development agency is coming under fire for providing €65 million to finance an urban mobility programme in Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé, at a time when France faces austerity and decaying infrastructure. The decision to send the money to Yaoundé was “a scandal”, said the deputy. The château restoration project focusses on saving the François I wing, which is at risk of structural collapse. It aims to accelerate Yaoundé’s urban transition, in a city which is experiencing rapid population growth and is now home to 4.3 million people. In May, the magazine Marianne also revealed millions of euros in French public subsidies went to pro-Palestinian NGOs which it alleged were close to Hamas.