Thursday, June 23 was held in Paris the major annual meeting of the French Council of Investors in Africa in partnership with the newspaper Opinion. Gabonese, Cameroonian and Ivorian delegations made the trip. Among the major issues addressed is the fight against food insecurity and inflation.
Lowering customs taxes, increasing oil subsidies, raising the price of a bag of wheat flour, etc., the Cameroonian authorities have highlighted the measures already in place. But for the Cameroonian Minister of Economy Alamine Ousmane Mey, it is also important to attract investors. ” But above all invite our investor partners to come to Cameroon because we have the necessary framework and the experience and expertise necessary to enable them to benefit from their investment: in energy, in infrastructure in agro- industry. »
“The Ivorian model has worked”
To reduce their food dependence, the Gabonese authorities want to encourage people to turn to agriculture. Yves Fernand Manfoumbi the Gabonese Trade Minister. “We know very well that today the Gabonese are not culturally agricultural. But the selective immigration on which we want to embark is to say that the Ivorian model walked. And we are in the process of saying today, we can perhaps go to Rwanda next door, we can perhaps go to Burkina Faso or why not to India. So that we can effectively organize this selective immigration to be able to support the movement that is moving the lines that will now lead the Gabonese to be farmers. »
States are also thinking about fertilizer supply alternatives, in particular by favoring producers on the continent such as Morocco or Nigeria.
The President of the Republic, HE @mohamedbazoum was this Thursday morning, June 23, 2022, the Guest of Honor at the opening ceremony of the CIAN Africa Forum 2022, organized in Paris by the French Council of Investors in Africa (CIAN) and Opinion, a French newspaper. pic.twitter.com/CFvATTSa8o
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