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.

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.

The Extraordinary Summit of Central African Heads of State, bringing together six CEMAC countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Chad) ended on Friday the 23 December 2016, with the reading of the Final Communiqué in which Heads of State of the sub-region express their determination to come out of the current economic crisis. Below is the Final Communiqué of this meeting.

The official launching ceremony for the government bond issue, through a public offering by the Congolese government, was made on December 15, 2016 in Pointe-Noire by Calixte Nganongo, Minister of Finance, Budget and Public Portfolio in the presence of administrative officials of the public and private sector, companies, banks and the public.

Calixte Nganongo, Minister of Finance, Budget and Public Portfolio, launched on Thursday 15 December 2016 a bond issue through a public offering of 150 billion CFA francs through a mobilization of investors (Road show). Launched in Brazzaville, this operation will continue in Pointe-Noire. Open from December 15 to 23, 2016, a bond issue of 10.000 CFAF is remunerated at a net 6.5% the year.