CEMAC agreed free movement of people almost a decade ago and has a common external tariff older than most of its citizens. Its members still trade more with Europe and...Read More
Borrow against tomorrow’s barrels to pay today’s bills. Chad did it, Congo did it, Gabon did it again in April. The mechanism is legal, expensive and almost impossible to see...Read More
The largest refinery in Africa sits 600 kilometres from Douala by sea. Central Africa imports nearly all its refined fuel. On paper, the match is obvious. In practice, almost nothing...Read More
Cameroon has added the largest hydropower plant in its history. Households still count their outages in hours per day. The gap between generation and supply is where the money goes...Read More
Six months apart, the same regulator issued two decisions about two Cameroonian microfinance institutions placed under supervision in the same wave. One got a liquidator. The other got its keys...Read More
Washington’s flagship trade preference programme was rescued in February and expires again on 31 December. For most of Central Africa, the deadline is academic: the region was already locked out....Read More
Why Central Africa’s banks do not finance Central Africa — and what architecture could make them I. Anatomy of a rational bank — II. Bankability is not a quality of...Read More
Central Africa just plugged into the continent’s largest payment network. What that changes now — and what it doesn’t yet. On 9 July 2026, the Bank of Central African States...Read More
For decades, the CEMAC zone operated on a simple equation: wealth flowed not to the most competent, but to the best-connected. Today, a generational rupture is dismantling this model from...Read More
On 14 April 2026, at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, Patricia Vialle, business leader and President of the MEDEF Women’s Network, delivered an unvarnished address on women’s place in the...Read More
Gathered in Douala from January 26 to 29, 2026, the senior management of the BGFIBank Group held their major strategic convention for the third consecutive year, combined with seminars for...Read More
The heads of state of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) are summoned to an extraordinary summit on January 22 in Brazzaville, at the initiative of President Denis...Read More
On January 20, 2026, in Douala, the Governor of the BEAC launched the Credit Information Bureau (BIC). Operated by Creditinfo Central Africa, this new tool aims to clean up the...Read More
On December 22, 2025, in Yaoundé, the Cameroonian Ministry of Finance launched a national campaign to promote Islamic finance, in a context marked by the search for alternative mechanisms to...Read More
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