President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon has welcomed Rwanda’s request to reintegrate in the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC).
The Gabon Presidency says on its Twitter Account that President Ali Bongo Ondimba welcomes the request made by Rwanda to return to this economic bloc.
Ondimba is in N’Djamena to attend the 16th Ordinary Session of Heads of State of the Economic Community of Central African States.
The 16th Ordinary session is being held in Chad’s capital from this Monday, May 25.
The meeting is expected to address the security challenges including crisis in the Central African Republic; insurrection in northeast Nigeria with Boko Haram, among others.
The first to set foot on Chadian soil for the occasion, Sunday, May 24, was the president of the transition in Central Africa, Catherine Samba Panza. The Presidential couple of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Constancia Mangue de Obiang Nsue Okomo, also arrived yesterday.
The Head of State of Cameroon, Paul Biya, is represented in this meeting by his Prime Minister, Philemon Yang.
Sao-Tome, Burundi, Rwanda and the DRC are represented by their respective Ministers of Foreign Affairs. Angola is represented by its Ambassador accredited to Chad.
ECCAS has ten countries: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Sao Tome and Principe.
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