Central Africa

In line with ECA's campaign on the structural transformation of the economies of Central Africa, CEMAC countries have just adopted a five-year post-COVID-19 recovery plan that prioritizes industrialization and economic diversification.

Yaounde, 5 August, 2020 (CEA) - Inadequate skills development and low productivity are holding down the competitive and economic diversification potential of Central African countries. However, if they draw inspiration from the experiences of Ethiopia, Japan and South Africa, among others, these countries can retool their human resources to become more developed, prosperous and resilient to external shocks.

Yaounde, 01 July, 2020 (ECA) – Member States of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) have everything to gain in respecting the January 2021 deadline to finally put an end to surcharges on mobile roaming within the zone in order to boost the sub-region’s economic recovery efforts in a post-COVID-19 dispensation, posits the Sub-regional Office for Central Africa of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).

Yaounde, 26 June, 2020 (ECA) – Cameroon’s Minister of Trade – Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana concurred with officials of the Subregional Office for Central Africa of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Thursday evening, that COVID-19 has offered countries of the sub-region the opportunity to re-appropriate the structure of their economies by first ramping up local manufacturing of domestically consumed products and taking advantage of the forthcoming African common market to sell to wider targets.