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AfCFTA: Cameroon plays key role in continental integration

Posted on 2025-07-07
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On 4 July 2025, Cameroon's Trade Minister, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, received in audience the Secretary General of the AfCFTA, H.E. Wamkele Mene, on behalf of the Prime Minister, Chief Dr Joseph Dion Ngute. It was an opportunity to acknowledge Cameroon's significant progress in implementing the Agreement, making it the only Central African state to have engaged in trade under the preferential regime of the AfCFTA Guided Trade Initiative.

A number of measures have been announced... Read more

AfCFTA : Official launch of “BIASHARA AFRIKA 2024” by President Paul Kagame

Posted on 2024-10-10
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A business forum dubbed “BIASHARA AFRIKA 2024” is being organised in Kigali from 9 to 11 October 2024 on the theme "Dare to invent the future of the AfCFTA”. A joint initiative of the AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area) Secretariat and the Government of Rwanda, the forum offers a dynamic platform for discussions between Africa's public and private sectors, multinationals, and key players of the continent's economy.

African SMEs hope to seize the... Read more

AfCFTA: Reinforcing the cassava production capacities of women in Mbangassina

Posted on 2024-09-24
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The second phase of the capacity-building programme for women of the cassava sector under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is underway in Mbangassina, a village in the Centre Region of Cameroon.

This programme was launched by the Cameroon National Shippers' Council (CNSC), a technical partner of the Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicrafts (MINPMEESA). The CNSC kicked off the programme's second phase on 23 September, with... Read more

COMMUNITY FREE TRADE ZONE

Posted on 2024-07-31
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Given the major concerns expressed by ECCAS Heads of State and Government regarding continental integration, and the current state of affairs, which reveals that only four of the 11 countries are compliant. The Commission has been instructed to take the necessary steps to prepare and submit a draft roadmap for the operationalisation and launch of the free trade area by July 2025 at the 25thordinary session scheduled for September 2024.

With this in mind, a regional capacity-building... Read more

Events

Annual Central Africa Cross-Border Fair (FOTRAC)

Date: 23 July 2026 - 31 July 2026

Place: Yaoundé

Theme: “Assessing socio-economic cross-border cooperation initiatives to facilitate peaceful trade and achieve development objectives in the era of the AfCFTA”

Contacts: +237 696509950 / 677555942

Email: refac2008@yahoo.fr

Organiser: Mrs Jeanne Danielle NLATE

Yaoundé International Business, SME and Partnership Fair (PROMOTE)

Date: 12 June 2026 - 21 June 2026

Place: Yaoundé (Conference Centre)

Theme: “Private enterprises and the business environment: ‘What guidelines for addressing national and international economic challenges?’”

Contacts: +237 669 999 308 / +237 222 21 27 40

Email: info@salonpromote.org/ www.interprogress.org

Organiser: INTERPROGRESS International Foundation.

GOVERNMENT ACTION FAIR (SAGO)

Date: 06 June 2026 - 13 June 2026

Place: Yaoundé Multipurpose Sports Complex

Theme: “Public-Private Partnership: a catalyst for an emerging Cameroon”

Contacts: +237 620 00 21 95 / 677 88 63 22 / +237 242 66 60 44

Email: mcommunicateur@yahoo.fr

Organiser: Mon communicateur Sarl (Advertising and Events Agency)

Project Manager: Patrice ASSIGA EYENE

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