Central Africa

Yaounde, 8 March 2019 (ECA) – There is no alternative to the equation of "developing an African industrial fabric, capable of boosting our production and processing capacity, and reducing our dependence on other continents" recently argued the Prime Minister and Head of Government of the Republic of Cameroon, Dr. Joseph Dion Ngute – an observation that reflects ECA's current thinking on the structural transformation and diversification of African economies.

Yaounde, 18 January 2019 (ECA) – A total of 83 leaders from the public and private sectors of the Central African Republic (CAR) have completed a three-day training to appropriate rules of origin procedures for accrediting national industrial products into the ECCAS-CEMAC Harmonized Preferential Tariff regime.

Yaounde, 17 Dec 2018 (ECA) – Economic diversification is a condition sine qua non for Central African countries to break from boom-bust cycles.

This is the central thrust of messages from a recent high-level debate in Yaounde – Cameroon that crowned activities to mark the 60th anniversary celebration of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in the Central African sub-region.

Yaounde, 18 November 2018 (ECA) – A total of 49 leaders from the public and private sectors of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have completed a two-day training to appropriate rules of origin procedures for accrediting national industrial products into the ECCAS-CEMAC Harmonized Preferential Tariff regime.