From Tuesday June 18 to Wednesday June 19, 2024, Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), hosted the work of the 26th meeting of the AFRITAC Center Steering Committee. Organized in a hybrid format, this meeting gave delegates from the 9 member countries the opportunity to examine the issues of “Public Finance Management and Climate Change”. At the end of these meetings, Mr. Jean-Baptiste ONDAYE, Minister of Economy and Finance of Congo-Brazzaville, was appointed current President of the said Committee for the two fiscal years which have just opened (2024-2026 ).

Monday May 13, 2024, in the meeting room of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, in Brazzaville, Mr. Jean-Baptiste ONDAYE, the leader of the said ministry, spoke with a delegation from the World Bank, led by Mr. Luc RAZAFIMANDIMBY, principal economist in charge of debt management issues for Congo.

Thursday April 4, 2024 in Brazzaville, Mr. Jean-Baptiste ONDAYE Minister of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Congo, opened then closed, in his capacity as co-President, the work of the 7th session of the Steering Committee and Monitoring (COS), governance body of the Debt Reduction - Development Contract (C2D) which links France and Congo.

“The four days of meetings allowed us to prepare additional technical sheets for 6 priority integrative projects (PIP) of the 2nd cycle; to examine the state of implementation of the 2 remaining 1st cycle Projects; and to refine the financial arrangements for 5 second cycle projects”. 

Friday March 8, 2024 in Brazzaville, the Congolese Minister of Economy and Finance, Mr. Jean-Baptiste ONDAYE, received a delegation of experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Mr. Pierre-Adrien WANDJA FONDJA. The purpose of this tête-à-tête, for this delegation, was to report, halfway through, the work it has carried out for two weeks with Congolese experts, on ways of optimizing non-profit revenues. oil in the Republic of Congo. 

The 9th session of the members of the Permanent Consultation Framework for Public Treasurys of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CPC-TP-CEMAC) was opened, Wednesday March 6, 2024 in Brazzaville (Republic of Congo), by Mr. Gatien ONDAYE OBILI, President of this community body, and Advisor for monitoring and cash management to the Congolese Minister of Economy and Finance. 

Tuesday March 5, 2024 in Brazzaville (Republic of Congo), Mr. Jean-Baptiste ONDAYE, Congolese Minister of Economy and Finance, President of the Steering Committee of the Economic and Financial Reforms Program of the Economic and Monetary Community of Africa Centrale (PREF-CEMAC), indicated five points of reflection to the participants of the 8th meeting of the Technical Committee for monitoring the mobilization of financing and the implementation of the 13 priority integrative projects (PIP) of the 2nd cycle. These Projects were presented at the Paris Round Table on November 28 and 29, 2023.

Friday February 23, 2024 in Brazzaville, the Congolese government (represented by Messrs. Jean-Baptiste ONDAYE, Minister of Economy and Finance, and Antoine Nicéphore Thomas FYLLA SAINT-EUDES, Minister of Industrial Development and Promotion of the Private Sector) and the Indian government (represented by its Ambassador to Congo, His Excellency Mr. Madan-Lal RAIGAR) took stock of the implementation of the three projects financed in Congo on loan from EXIM-BANK INDIA. The work was attended by the General Director of this bank, Mr. Dipar KUJUR.

Friday January 26, 2024, in his office, in Brazzaville, Mr. Jean-Baptiste ONDAYE, Congolese Minister of Economy and Finance, chaired the presentation session of the Rainwater Drainage Project of the Congolese capital, in its phase 2 Tsiémé River. In the presence of Messrs. Mauricio Cascioli, Director of the French Development Agency (AFD)/Congo, and Zacharie MOKIEMO, Chief of Staff of the Congolese Minister of Land Planning, Infrastructure and Road Maintenance.

The Minister of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Congo, Mr. Jean-Baptiste ONDAYE, the Ambassador of France to Congo, Mrs. Claire BODONYI and the Deputy Director of the French Development Agency (AFD) in Brazzaville, Madame Marie DUBUFFET, signed, Tuesday January 9, 2024 in the Congolese capital, the financing agreement for the Project to strengthen the training-employment adequacy, called in Lingala “Mosala” (“Work”), for the benefit of young Congolese.