Cameroon: Yaounde to host international finance forum

The Ministers of Finance, Central Bank Governors and Presidents of Regional Institutions of the Franc Zone will meet in Yaounde from the 8th to the 9th of April, Cameroon Concord has learnt from a reliable source at the ministry of finance in Yaounde. We gathered that the heads of the financial institutions of the 8 member countries of the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa (UEMOA), the six member countries of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC), the Union Comoros and France will take part in this meeting.

Our chief economic affairs reporter revealed that the topics on the agenda will focus on the state of the actual nominal convergence in the Franc Zone, the adaptation of public policies to face the decline in extractive matters and the improvement and mobilization of tax resources. The forum will be jointly chaired by the French Minister of Finance and Public Accounts, Michel Sapin, the President of the CEMAC Commission, Pierre Moussa, his counterpart at the UEMOA Adjibou Soumare and the head of IMF mission for CEMAC, Mario Zamaroczy.