Minister Biruta, Maj Gen Murasira attend ECCAS meeting in Brazzaville

The meeting kicked off on 17th January 2022.

The 11 member States of ECCAS are; Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda and Sao Tome and Principe.

At a summit meeting in December 1981, the leaders of the Central African Customs and Economic Union (UDEAC) agreed in principle to form a wider economic community of Central African states. [{{ECCAS}}->https://au.int/en/recs/eccas] was established on 18 October 1983 by the UDEAC members and the members of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes States (CEPGL) (Burundi, Rwanda and the then Zaire) as well as Sao Tomé and Principe.