CEMAC: Closing of the first meeting of the steering committee of the economic and financial reform programme in Brazzaville.

CEMAC: Inaugural session of the Steering Committee of the Economic and Financial Reform Programme

Presentation of New Year wishes by members of government to the Presidential Couple

Congo already demonstrates its willingness to adhere to the revised Kyoto Convention for the simplification and harmonization of Customs procedures.

On Wednesday, January 4, 2017, Calixte Nganongo, Minister of Finance, Budget and Public Portfolio, made a surprise visit to the Directorate General of the Congolese Amortisation Fund (CCA) in Brazzaville.

The agenda centred on validation of the road map on real property; policy on open data and the 2017 work plan. There were also other matters.

The 2017 finance law was unanimously voted on Thursday 29 December 2016 respectively by the two houses of the Congolese parliament. It is concluded in income and expenditure at the sum of two thousand seven hundred and forty-four billion seventy-seven million (2.744.077.000.000) CFA Francs.

The website of the Ministry of Finance, the Budget and the Public Portfolio, accessible throughwww.finances.gouv.cg was placed online on Tuesday December 27, 2016, in the conference room of the Ministry in the presence of Mr. Calixte Nganongo, Minister of Finance, Budget and Public Portfolio, Congolese monetary and financial authority.

Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, hosted on 23 December 2016 an extraordinary summit of Heads of State of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic and Chad.

To finance investments undertaken between 2012 and 2016, the Congolese government has just launched a bond issue through a public offering on CEMAC financial markets. It was on December 15 in Libreville.