Africa: Africa's Customs Chiefs Commit to Implementing New Continental Covid-19 Trade Facilitation Guidelines

Africa's customs experts have given their support to the adoption of continental guidelines to facilitate free and timely flow of cross-border trade amid the COVID-19 pandemic… Read more »

Africa: Digital Transformation in a Post-Covid World - Africa Continues to Trail Other Regions Says New Report

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Portulans Institute, a research and educational think tank based in Washington DC, have teamed up to launch the results… Read more »

Africa: Professor Laban Ayieko Ogallo - Message of Condolences

The Climate Science community in Africa learned with shock of the sudden passing of Professor Laban Ayieko Ogallo on the 20th November 2020 in Nairobi due to sudden illness. Read more »

Africa: AfCFTA Will Increase Demand for Transportation Infrastructure in Africa, Experts Say

Demand for transportation services in Africa will be on the increase as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement goes into operations in January next year,… Read more »

Africa: End Gender-Based Violence, 'Once and for All', UN Urges On International Day

Commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Wednesday, the United Nations has called on governments worldwide to redouble efforts and… Read more »

Africa: West African Think Tanks and Experts Meet Virtually to Discuss Generational Economy and Structural Transformation in the Covid-19 Era

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Sub-Regional Office for West Africa, in partnership with the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, today… Read more »

Africa: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

The UN Secretary-General's UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women campaign is marking the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (25 November to 10 December 2020)… Read more »

Africa: ECA-SRO-SA Supports the Validation of a Draft Financing Model for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises in the Kingdom of Eswatini

The Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini, through the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Trade, requested for technical support from the United Nations Economic Commission for… Read more »

Africa: Secretary-General's Remarks On Racism in the Workplace

Dear Colleagues, Read more »

Africa: ECA Launches Atex, E-Commerce Platform That Will Support Transactions When AfCFTA Starts Next Year

The Economic Commission for Africa presented an online trading platform Thursday, that will facilitate trading between buyers and suppliers when the African Continental Free Trade… Read more »

Africa: African Statistics Day Marked Across Continent

Countries have embarked on national activities in celebration of the African Statistics Day on the theme "Modernizing national statistical systems to provide data and statistics to… Read more »

Africa: ECA Executive Secretary Calls On North African Countries to "Build Forward Together" for a Faster, Stronger Post-Covid-19 Economic Recovery

Rabat, 18 November (ECA) - "North Africa is the most impacted sub-region of our continent after Southern Africa, and although most of its countries are not in the low-income… Read more »

Africa: ECA's Executive Secretary Asks Africa to Seek New Sectors Under AfCFTA to Industrialize and Create Jobs

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Vera Songwe today said as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) goes into operation next year, the… Read more »

Africa: Africa's First Sovereign Credit Rating Review Report Launched

The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday virtually launched the first African… Read more »

Africa: Secretary-General's Video Message to the Closing of the 15th Annual Internet Governance Forum - Internet Governance in the Age of Uncertainty

It is a pleasure to address this closing session of the fifteenth annual Internet Governance Forum. Read more »

Africa: World Diabetes Day

Globally, an estimated 422 million adults were living with diabetes in 2014, compared to 108 million in 1980. The global prevalence of diabetes has nearly doubled since 1980,… Read more »

Africa: Guterres Congratulates Biden and Harris, Hails UN-Us Partnership As 'Essential Pillar'

Senior UN officials have offered their congratulations to the president-elect of the United States Joe Biden, and vice president-elect Kamala Harris, on their election victory… Read more »

Southern Africa: African Continental Free Trade Area Could Expand Opportunities for Women, Say Atpc-SADC Webinar Panelists

- The African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Southern African Development Community (SADC)-Women in Business, and the SADC Business… Read more »

Africa: Deputy UN Chief Looks to 'New Dawn for Mali', Promotes Participation of Women in Country's Transition

The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed on Friday has been strongly advocating for the greater participation of women and youth in Mali's ongoing transition towards a… Read more »

Africa: Parliamentarians Have Critical Role to Play in Fight Against Covid-19 and Recovery

African parliamentarians have a critical role to play in enhancing the continent's resilience against health emergencies like the novel coronavirus through enacting effective… Read more »

Africa: International Women's Day 2021 Theme - "Women in Leadership - Achieving an Equal Future in a Covid-19 World"

IWD 2021) as, "Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world." Read more »

Africa: Africa's Success in Mobilising Power of Its Youth Will Deliver AfCFTA Promise

The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) provides a critical opportunity for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including youth-led enterprises engaged in… Read more »

West Africa: Meeting Between the Director of ECA in West Africa and the 3rd Vice-President of the National Assembly of Niger - The Promotion of the Use of ICTs in the Ecowas Space At the Centre of Discussions

The 3rd Vice-President of the National Assembly of Niger, the Honourable Ayouba Hassane Farmo, on behalf of the President of the institution, His Excellency Mr. Ousseini Tinni, had… Read more »

Africa: Eca Holds Meeting On Studies Into the Development Agendas in Africa's Sub-Regions

Addis Ababa, October 27, 2020, (ECA) - The UN Secretary General and the African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson have committed to working together to implement the development… Read more »

Africa: ECA Launches New Report On Extractive Sector Governance

Sudan's Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok, and Economic Commission for Africa's (ECA) Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, on Friday launched a new publication that proposes actions that… Read more »