The 12th ordinary meeting of the Steering Committee (COPIL) of the Economic and Financial Reform Programme of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (PREF-CEMAC) took place on Friday 18 December 2020 by videoconference from Brazzaville (Congo). Under the auspices of its president, Gilbert Ondongo, Congolese Minister of State in charge of the economy, industry and public portfolio.

The signing ceremony of the Bilateral Agreement between the Republic of Congo and France within the framework of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (ISSD) took place on Tuesday 15 December 2020 in Brazzaville. The solemn act was performed on the Congolese side by the Minister of Finance and Budget, Calixte Nganongo, accompanied by his colleague in charge of the Budget, Ludovic Ngatsé, and on the French side by his Ambassador, François Barateau.

The Minister of Finance and Budget, Calixte Nganongo, and his colleague in charge of the Budget, Ludovic Ngatsé, on Thursday, December 3, 2020 in Brazzaville, met with a delegation of the World Bank led by Abdoulaye Seck, Director of Operations of this financial institution in Congo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

On Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 October 2020 in Washington (USA), the virtual meeting of the Bureau of the Africa Group II of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), as well as the Plenary of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), were held by videoconference. The Republic of Congo participated through the Minister of Finance and Budget, Calixte Nganongo, Governor of the IMF for his country, represented by his colleague in charge of the Budget, Ludovic Ngatsé.

The Congolese Minister of Finance and Budget, Calixte Nganongo, accompanied by his colleague Delegate for the Budget, Ludovic Ngatsé, and the Representative-Resident of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Congo Maleye Diop, exchanged, Tuesday, October 8, 2020 in Brazzaville, on the return of the Republic of Congo to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), for which the UNDP provides the Secretariat.

On Wednesday 8 July 2020, in the conference room of the Ministry of Finance and Budget in Brazzaville, the Ambassador of France to Congo, François Barateau; the Director of the French Development Agency (AFD), Lionel Cafferini, and the Congolese Government represented by the Minister of Finance and Budget, Calixte Nganongo, signed two grant agreements for a total amount of 7.35 million euros (i.e. 4.8 billion CFA francs).

Opened by Madame Congolese Minister of Planning, Statistics and Regional Integration, Ingrid Olga Ghislaine Ebouka-Babackas, on behalf of her colleague Calixte Nganongo in charge of Finance and Budget of which is acting, and closed by Ambassadeur Nagoum Yamassoum, President of the Supervisory Commission of Central African Financial Market (COSUMAF), the first day of the financial market of Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC), held in Brazzaville-Kintélé on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, under the main theme “Stakes and challenges of the unified regional financial market in Central Africa” enabled the participants to adopt 13 recommendations to revitalise the Central African Transferable Securities Stock Exchanges (BVMAC).

Received in audience, on Monday 2 March 2020 in Brazzaville (Congo), by Madame Ingrid Olga Ghislaine Ebouka-Babackas, Minister of Planning,  Statistics and Regional Integration acting as Minister of Finance and Budget, Ambassador Nagoum Yamassoum, President of the Central African Financial Supervisory Commission (COSUMAF), set the objectives of the first day of the financial market that his institution and the host country co-organised, Tuesday, March 3, 2020 in Kintélé (northern suburb of the Congolese capital).

Madame Ingrid Olga Ghislaine Ebouka-Babackas, Congolese Minister of Planning, Statistics and Regional Integration, Acting Minister of Finance and Budget, closed on Wednesday 26 February 2020, the visit of the IMF Technical Mission to Brazzaville.

The Congolese Minister in charge of Finance and Budget, Calixte Nganongo, represented his colleague Ingrid Olga Ghislaine Ebouka-Babackas, Minister of Planning,  Statistics and Regional Integration, received a delegation from the IMF, led by Alex Segura-Ubiergo, Thursday 20 February 2020, in the meeting room of the said Ministry. For one week, discussions will focus on documents prepared by Congo, at the request of the Fund.