The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) stands as Africa’s most ambitious economic undertaking to date. It seeks to establish a single continental market, deepen economic integration, and unlock regional value chains. The Agreement is anchored in eight core protocols covering trade in (…)
The African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa www.ituc-africa.org) expresses deep and urgent alarm over the worrying rise of repression and post-election violence unfolding in Tanzania and Cameroon. Across both nations, and for similar other (…)
Over the past 20 years, Cameroon’s energy sector has moved from a public sector model towards a mixed public-private energy investment model. The conditionalities of the Structural Adjustment Program that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) imposed on the country in the (…)
As of May 27, 2020, Cameroon had 5,436 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,996 recoveries and 175 deaths. The coronavirus pandemic is having a negative impact on the Cameroonian economy which has recorded losses of about 800 billion FCFA (approx. USD 1.3 billion). Several economic sectors, (…)
We have noted with concern the deteriorating human rights situation of the people and residents of Southern Cameroon for a while now. A number of persons described and declared as “enemies of the Republic” have been arrested and detained without trial. Many more who have felt threatened because (…)