Cameroon: Customs, Police Threaten Regional Trade

Posted to the web 25 July 2008 Nformi Sonde Kinsai A commission set up by the third general assembly of the Conference of Consular Chambers of the Central African Economic and Monetary Union has revealed that the activities of custom and police officers have been identified as a stumbling block to trans-boundary trade in the sub-region. This observation is contained in a document submitted to the press at the fourth general assembly of CCC-CEMAC that held in Yaounde from July 16 to 17. The commission which was coordinated by one Samuel Yemene noted that customs and police harassment along the Douala-N'djamena and Douala-Bangui transit routes is a serious threat to trade relations between Cameroon and Chad on the one hand and Cameroon and Central African Republic on the other. The commission's report highlighted the bilateral... [read full story]