In a bid to stimulate the production of timber to the GDP of Central African States, members countries of the Congo Basin have taken the unanimous decision to end the exportation of timber logs from January 1, 2022. This was the substance of a meeting of Ministers of Forests, Industries and Environment of the Central Economic and Monetary Community CEMAC and the DRC chaired by Jules Doret Ndongo, Cameroon’s Minister of Forestry and Wildlife on September 18, 2020
It is the culmination to existing measures taken by some countries individually. Gabon and Equatorial Guinea had already endorsed the ban in 2010 and 2019 respectively. While the Democratic Republic of Congo had set 2017 to begin implementing the measure.
