Africa: ECA Supports Pilot Project for the Hodh Chargui Region

The ECA Office for North Africa, the Ministry of Economy and Industry, the Ministry of the Interior and Decentralization and the Wilaya of Hodh Charghi of the Islamic Republic of… Read more »

Africa: Call for Expression of Interest - Africa Making Moves to Manufacture Its Own Medicines

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has launched a request for Expressions of Interest (EOI) from African pharmaceutical manufacturers to produce 107… Read more »

Africa: ECA and Its Partners Proceed With the Technical Validation of the Interim Report of the Study On the Establishment of an Autonomous Financing Mechanism for the LGA

Experts from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Sub-Regional Office for West Africa, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Liptako Gourma… Read more »

Africa: Land Policy Journal Paving the Way for African Scholars

ECA Press Release Nairobi, Kenya - On 22nd June 2020, the African Land Policy Center (ALPC) held the first Editorial Board Meeting for the African Journal on Land Policy and… Read more »

Africa: Marking 75 Years of the Charter of the United Nations

António Guterres is the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Read more »

Africa: The Climate Crisis - A Race We Can Win

Climate change is the defining crisis of our time and it is happening even more quickly than we feared. But we are far from powerless in the face of this global threat. As… Read more »

Africa: Gtap Awards Research Fellow Distinction to ECA Staff

The Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) in Purdue University has awarded Mr. Simon Mevel, Economic Affairs Officer of ECA, a research fellowship for the period 2020-2023 in… Read more »

Africa: Renewable Energy Investments Crucial in Africa's Efforts to Build Back Better Post COVID-19

It is essential for African governments to build back strong from the coronavirus crisis by placing investments in sustainable energy among the central recovery goals, and linking… Read more »

Africa: Over 600 Million Mobile Subscribers in Africa to Benefit From First-of-Its-Kind Digital Health Platform

"With this platform, we have the possibility of reaching between 600 million and 800 million mobile subscribers in Africa," said Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic… Read more »

Africa: COVID-19 - Africa and the United States to Remain Key Partners, Says President Kagame

A four-day leaders forum hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) opened Tuesday with Rwandan President Paul Kagame saying Africa and the United States will remain key trade… Read more »

Africa: Treat Climate Crisis With Same Urgency As COVID-19 Pandemic - New ECA Paper

A post coronavirus recovery in Africa should address the fundamental causes of vulnerabilities and go beyond fiscal and monetary adjustments whose sole aim is to ensure the… Read more »

Africa: Online Launch Event - Africa Communication and Information Platform (Acip) for Health and Economic Action

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Africa: ECA and Partners to Launch the Africa Communication and Information Platform in Response to COVID-19

Africa is about to roll out a groundbreaking mobile based public communications platform to provide more than 600 million users across the continent with the latest public health… Read more »

Africa: Online Launch Event - Africa Communications Information Platform (Acip) for Health and Economic Action

Media Advisory Read more »

Africa: ECA and Partners to Launch the Africa Communications Information Platform in Response to COVID-19

Africa is about to roll out a groundbreaking mobile based public communications platform to provide more than 600 million users across the continent with the latest public health… Read more »

Africa: "Times of Unprecedented Crisis Present Unique Opportunities for Unprecedented Action" - Graça Machel, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Dr. Vera Songwe, Maria Ramos

COVID 19 has unearthed massive inequalities within our societies and brought to glaring light the unique burdens which women carry the world over. As we respond to the impacts of… Read more »

Africa: Six United Nations Statistical Offices Work Together to Support Countries in Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic

As the world tackles the spread of COVID-19 and its unprecedented impacts on economies, societies and the environment, we are all stepping into unknown territory. Everybody, from… Read more »

Africa: Cemac and Eccas for Unique Industrial and Diversification Agenda

Through a unique subregional industrial and economic diversification strategy, Central Africa is seeking to double, in the years ahead, industrial contribution to GDP from its… Read more »

Africa: Identity for Development in Post-Covid19 Africa

"COVID-19 has enabled us to explore new platforms and ways of identifying people," said Vera Songwe, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission… Read more »

Southern Africa: ECA Southern Africa Regional Office Launches the UN Development Account Funded Project

ECA, UNCTAD, UNIDO, UNCTs & UNRCs) - ECA Sub-Regional office for Southern Africa (SRO-SA) organized a virtual partners' meeting on 17th June 2020 to commence the implementation… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Path to COVID-19 Recovery Requires Boldness, Says Vera Songwe

Tackling the ongoing coronavirus pandemic effectively to ensure Africa grows back and builds back better in the aftermath of COVID-19 requires boldness never before seen on the… Read more »

Africa: New Report, COVID-19 in African Cities - Impacts, Responses and Policies, Launched By ECA & Partners

With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic crippling economies the world over and set to trigger into motion Africa's first recession in 25 years, the Economic Commission for Africa and… Read more »

Africa: COVID-19 - Science, Technology and Innovation Key to Africa's Recovery, Says Songwe

Science, technology and innovation will be at the heart of Africa's recovery from the devastating coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the continent's ability to create sustainable… Read more »

Africa: Citing 'Weight of History', Senior UN Officials of African Descent Issue Call to 'Go Beyond and Do More' to End Racism

A group of more than twenty senior leaders in the UN, who report directly to Secretary-General António Guterres, and who are African or of African descent, have put their… Read more »

Africa: UN Chief in 'Support Migrants' Plea, As Remittances Drop By 20 Per Cent Predicted

Marking International Day of Family Remittances, The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has released a message appealing for "people everywhere" to support migrants, at… Read more »