The session is convened by Cameroon’s Head of State, President Paul Biya in his capacity as sitting President of the Conference of CEMAC Heads of State. The session will discuss the state of the community’s economy and the evaluation of efforts being put in place to achieve sub-regional integration.

Cameroon-info.net has also learnt that the summit which comes a few weeks after the Major National Dialogue that held in Yaoundé from September 30 to October 4, 2019 will examine measures being taken to resolve the crisis in Cameroon’s North West and South West Regions.

“The session will provide an opportunity for Cameroonians to reaffirm their attachment to peace and concord as well as the unity and progress of their country,” a line on page 7 of the summit’s press kit reads.

The session will also review how CEMAC has fared since the last extraordinary summit in N’Djamena Chad last March 24, 2019. With insecurity posing a challenge in the Lake Chad Basin and fall in fuel prices imposing an inflation threat, the economic community needs to look for safeguard measures.

The difficulties notwithstanding, experts suggest that the prospects for the next three years are favourable. The growth rate in the region is expected to stabilise at the end of 2019 at 3.2%, 3.5% in 2020 and 2021 as against 1.5% in 2018, -0.2% in 2017 and -0.1% in 2016.

According to the summit’s programme, Heads of State and their delegations are expected to begin arriving Cameroon as from Thursday afternoon. They will be received at the Yaoundé International Airport in Nsimalen and will later at 7p.m. be offered dinner at the Unity Palace by Cameroon’s presidential couple – President Paul Biya and his wife, Madam Chantal Biya.

On Friday, President Paul Biya will as from 10a.m. preside over deliberations of the extraordinary summit of Heads of State of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States. Delegates to the summit are expected to leave Yaoundé after the summit.