CEMAC Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/cemac/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 CEMAC Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/cemac/ 32 32 Central and West African state move towards visa-free access https://jjcornish.com/2017/11/central-west-african-state-move-towards-visa-free-access/ Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/11/central-west-african-state-move-towards-visa-free-access/ Central and West African countries have breathed new life into a decades-old dream of enables visa-free travel between their citizens. A summit in Chad’s capital N’jamena ratified a 17-year-old agreement binding a market of 30-million consumers.   Equatorial Guinea and Gabon are two small, oil-rich states that have had reservations about allowing visa-free access to […]

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]]> Central and West African countries have breathed new life into a decades-old dream of enables visa-free travel between their citizens.

A summit in Chad’s capital N’jamena ratified a 17-year-old agreement binding a market of 30-million consumers.

 

Equatorial Guinea and Gabon are two small, oil-rich states that have had reservations about allowing visa-free access to citizens of larger and more troubled Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The N’jamena summit brought them aboard the Central African Economic Monetary Community or CEMAC.

They’ve approved the regional development bank spending two-and-a-half million Euros as seed money for the implementation of the draft agreement signed in 2013

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