The economic history of Central Africa as a whole

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Central African Common Market launched
BBC World Service, Friday 6 February 1998. Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea are set to launch the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa. Leaders agreed to the final shape of the Community at a summit meeting in the Gabonese capital, Libreville.
More Economic Progress Earmarked For CEMAC Zone
L.P.N., Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé), 25 July 2003. The future promises to be bright for the Central African Economic and Monetary Community following the conclusions of the Board of Governors of the Bank of Central African States, BEAC that met recently in the Chadian capital city of N'djamena.
Africa's Dangerous Treasure
By Korinna Horta and Delphine Djiraibe, The Washington Post, Wednesday 10 March 2004. Recently Chad, one of the poorest nations in Africa, received its first income from the massive Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project, the continent's largest current investment. Unfortunately, oil production in Africa has often brought greater poverty, destruction of the environment and violent conflict.
The World Bank's Great Gamble in Central Africa
By Leif Brottem, Foreign Policy in Focus, 6 July 2004. The first tanker loaded with Chadian crude oil embarked from the Cameroonian port of Kribi on October 5th, 2003. Through its financial backing of the project, the World Bank is putting to the test a new approach to an old African problem: the marriage of oil, embezzlement, and political corruption.