Central Africa

Yaounde, 19 April 2019 (ECA) – On her first official visit to Cameroon after her appointment as UN Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA – Ms. Vera Songwe met with President Paul Biya and explored pathways to the country’s emergence via: improved macroeconomic policies for diversification and job creation; leveraging the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), unleashing the power of the digital economy and firming up the ‘tripod of peace, security and development.”

Yaounde, 17 April 2019 (ECA) – “Cameroon will ratify the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement,” the country’s Prime Minister – Joseph Dion Ngute assured UN Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Commission – Ms. Vera Songwe, Wednesday. 

Mr. Dion Ngute gave the assurance on the first day of Ms. Songwe’s official visit to Cameroon, at the ‘Star Building’ that hosts the Office of the Prime Minister in Yaounde, during a charged audience. 

Cameroon is in the process of developing its national African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Strategy through an awareness and information sharing workshop jointly organized by the Cameroonian Government and the UN Economic Commission for Africa.

Yaounde, 15 April 2019 (ECA) – The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) – Ms. Vera Songwe will pay an official visit to the Republic of Cameroon from 17 to 19 April 2019.

The visit would enable her strengthen the Commission’s cooperation ties with the Cameroon, especially in support of its efforts toward inclusive and sustainable development, structural transformation, economic diversification, regional integration and trade, as well as the digital economy.

Yaounde, 01 April 2019 (ECA) – Africa’s best bet at mobilizing the revenues needed to drive its sustainable development in good time, lies in broadening and deepening its tax bases, improving tax administration, tackling tax avoidance, enhancing non-tax revenue collection, avoiding the pitfalls of tax exoneration schemes for foreign investors, shunning debt burdens with little return on investment and leveraging digital technologies for easy and cost-effective tax compliance.