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Seminar : Trade facilitation on the agenda

  • Posted on 2018-03-20

The seminar that was conducted by UNCTAD experts aimed at building the capacity of CONAFE members.

From 26 February to 1 March 2018, Douala hosted a training seminar on module 3 of capacity building of CONAFE member. The meeting, which was organised by the National Trade Facilitation Committee of Cameroon (CONAFE), in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), was themed adoption of a Trade Facilitation Roadmap. The objective of this... Read more

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Cocoa sector: Re-launching through training

  • Posted on 2018-02-19

A cocoa tasting introductory session held in Yaounde on Friday, 9 February 2018. It was attended by the Cameroon Ministers of Trade, Mr. Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana and Employment and Vocational Training, Mr. Zacharie Perevet, many producers and other cocoa sector actors.

Apart from introducing attendees to cocoa tasting, the session consisted in giving the requisite tools to regular producers of quality cocoa beans in order to optimise the quality of their yields. This meeting equally... Read more

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Sub regional trade: Corridors still a cause for concern

  • Posted on 2017-12-14

Quite unexpected, truckers implicated in the difficulties faced by their employers, who are key foreign trade actors when it comes to transport to the hinterland. According to the Cameroon Ambassador to Chad, H.E.Sanda Oumarou, some drivers are feeding fat from the so-called "road charges," a good part of which goes into their pockets and they argue that it is being used to bribe their way along the Douala-Bangui or Douala-N'Djamena corridors.

"The conscience of the... Read more

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Exports : Three hundred thousand tonnes of bananas exported to the European Union

Cameroon exports about 300,000 tonnes of bananas a year to the European Union (EU). Hans-Peter SCHADEK, the new ambassador and head of the EU delegation in Cameroon, said in Yaounde during an audience granted by Cameroon's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MINADER), Henri Eyebe Ayissi.

According to the European diplomat, the courtesy visit to MINADER was a golden opportunity to give an overview of the cooperation that exists between the EU and Cameroon in the Ministry's... Read more

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