Digital Finance for CEMAC: BEAC is pushing interoperable payments across Central Africa, rolling out a CEMAC QR system that lets users pay across banks and mobile money wallets via GIMAC’s GIMACPAY, aiming for financial inclusion targets by 2029 and 2032. Congo Basin Forest Governance: A new State of the Forests of the Congo Basin 2025 report shifts focus from forest conditions to whether agreements are actually being implemented, asking if policies and institutions are delivering results for biodiversity and people. Agroecology Roadmap: Congo Basin countries adopted the Yaounde Declaration 2026, calling for at least 30% of food-system budgets to go to agroecology and 20% of climate and biodiversity financing to reach farmers’ groups, women, youth, Indigenous and local communities. Fisheries Transparency: The Mombasa Declaration on fisheries transparency gained broad support, backing low-cost reforms to improve vessel ownership, licensing and fishing authorization data to curb illegal fishing. Health & Local Medicines: Senegal’s Teranga Pharma is expanding local production of Drepaf (generic hydroxyurea) for sickle cell disease, targeting multiple African markets to reduce reliance on imported treatments. Justice for 2016 Jean Ping Assault: On the 10th anniversary of the attack on Jean Ping’s campaign HQ in Libreville, Tournons La Page Gabon demands truth and justice, pressing for answers on orders, casualty figures, investigations and missing bodies.