Before her peers, the President of the Senate, Huguette Yvonne Nyana Ekoume épouse Awori Onanga, solemnly urged the government to make the upcoming finance law a genuine lever for improving living conditions, while welcoming the recent restructuring of the Water and Energy Company into two autonomous structures. The examination of macroeconomic aggregates cannot be limited to a simple accounting of revenues and expenditures; budgetary arbitrations must imperatively translate political choices rooted in the daily lives of the population.


The transmission of analytical data from the African Development Bank further highlights persistent social fractures across the territory. Despite a GDP per capita peaking at $8,680.3, the economy suffers from the repercussions of a poverty rate standing at 34.3% and a global unemployment rate of 21.5%. The young active population bears the full brunt of this shock, with an inactivity rate of 38%, exacerbated by the mismatch between the training provided and the real needs of the productive fabric, while women face heightened vulnerability in the labor market.


The supply of households with basic goods remains dependent on external markets, with food dependency reaching 60% of national consumption. To respond to the injunctions of the Upper House, the government team led by Vice-President Hermann Immongault will need to amplify public investments in the upcoming exercise, following the 2026 supplementary finance law set at 5,495.2 billion CFA francs. Parliamentarians now have three months to leave their mark on budgetary arbitrations and intensify oversight of public actions before the close of the December sessions.


Nlend Flore

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