Central Africa

Yaounde, June 21, 2020 (ECA) – Cameroon’s Minister of Mines, Industry and Technological Development of - Gabriel Dodo Ndoke - and the Director of the Sub-regional Office for Central Africa of the Economic Commission for Africa (CEA) - Antonio Pedro - have reaffirmed their resolve to work in close collaboration for the structural transformation of the economy of Cameroon, underpinned by an inclusive and dynamic industrialization strategy.

Yaounde, 21 June, 2020 (ECA) – The creative industries constitute an important lever for economic diversification in Central Africa and can help countries of the sub-region build back better in a post-COVID-19 dispensation, said the Head of ECA’s Office for Central Africa – Antonio Pedro – to a range of actors from across Francophone Africa who attended a virtual conference dubbed “ResiliArt”.

Through a unique subregional industrial and economic diversification strategy, Central Africa is seeking to double, in the years ahead, industrial contribution to GDP from its current rate of 12%

Yaounde, June 5, 2020 (ECA) - In collaboration with the CEMAC Commission, the General Secretariat of ECCAS and the Technical Secretariat of the Steering Committee for the Rationalization of Regional Economic Communities in Central Africa (COPIL / CER-AC), the Sub-regional Office for Central Africa of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has convened a virtual meeting to launch the process of harmonizing and consolidating the zone’s regional industrialization and economic diversification master plans (PDIDE / Central Africa) from 9:00 Yaounde time on June 17, 2020.