Africa: We Cannot Afford to Fail on the Continental Free Trade Area

The launch of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) negotiations by the AU leaders in June 2015 in Johannesburg was a milestone. Once in place, the free trade area will cover more… Read more »

Africa: Commitment to Tracking Illicit Financial Outflows Underlines Thabo Mbeki's EU Visit

Mr. Thabo Mbeki, addressed the Member States and Secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as well as its Development Assistance Committee… Read more »

Africa: Migration is an Opportunity for Africa, If Managed Properly

Africans are among the most mobile people on earth. 31 million people from the continent have migrated to various parts of the world, including many African countries. Some people… Read more »

Africa: Regional Integration and Monetary Unions in Africa

With a land mass of over 30 million square kilometers, Africa is as big as India, China, the US and most of Europe combined. Betrayed by a Mercator map projection, the common view… Read more »

Africa: They Don't Believe in the Future!

The domino effect of five central banks - Denmark, Switzerland, the European Central bank, the bank of Japan and more recently Sweden, slashing interest rates to sub – zero… Read more »

Africa: Africa Is the Continent of Now, Says Mme Zuma of the African Union Commission

Africa is not only the continent of the future, but mostly the continent of now, Madame Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma President of the Commission of the African Union told thousands of… Read more »

Africa: The Africa Pavilion at COP21 Officially Opens on a High Note

Africa today sent an unequivocal message of solidarity and unity of purpose at the official opening of the Africa Pavilion at the UNFCCC COP 21 in Paris. Speaking at the high level… Read more »

Africa: Carlos Lopes On Africa's Course in the Climate Negotiations

ClimDev-Africa) - "Africa has played a key role in global climate negotiations. Since 2006, the African group of negotiators working hard, but it must find ways to strengthen its… Read more »

Africa: Leaders Commend ECA Climate Change Work At Cop 21 Africa Pavilion

The President of Benin, Boni Yayi, today praised the intellectual leadership role that Mr. Carlos Lopes and his team at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)… Read more »

Africa: Why Africa Should Care about the Paris Climate Agreement?

The stakes are high for Africa at the forthcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP 21) in Paris, as the outcome will have… Read more »

Africa: Carlos Lopes Says Paris Climate Agreement Should Aim to Save Lives

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has said that unless climate negotiators and governments begin to put faces and people behind the statistics on… Read more »

Africa: Towards a More Active Participation of Africa in Cop 21

ClimDev-Africa) - The 5th Annual Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA 5) which ended in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe at the weekend has emboldened Africa for a… Read more »

Africa: African Migrants: Payback Time?

Since the beginning of this year a relentless flow of images from the Italian island of Lampedusa, the city of Calais where the Eurotunnel starts, Bodrum in Turkey, the eastern… Read more »

Africa: ECA, Germany and World Bank to Launch New Network of Excellence On Land Governance

Joint press release on the occasion of the signing ceremony of a declaration of intent to launch a Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa (NELGA) Read more »

Africa: Stakeholders Mull European Union 'Aid for Trade' Strategy

In one of the side events organized in the framework of the 5th Global Review of Aid for Trade, Mr. Stephen Karingi, Director of ECA's Regional Integration and Trade Division, was… Read more »

Africa: EU-Africa Free Trade Agreement 'Destroys' Development Policy, Says Merkel Advisor

This story was published by EurActiv Germany. Andrew Mold, Chief of SRO-EA Sub-Regional Data Centre and Senior Economic Affairs is one of experts interviewed by the German TV. Read more »

Africa: Irish President Michael D. Higgins Calls for African-Driven Alternative Development Models

African leaders, thinkers and civil society activists were on Wednesday invited by Michael D. Higgins, President of the Republic of Ireland, to produce alternative models of… Read more »

Africa: Europe and Africa Urged to Fix Intergenerational Injustices

In prelude to the 4th EU-Africa Summit that has kicked off today in Brussels on the theme: "People, Prosperity and Peace," ECA's Executive Secretary, Carlos Lopes, called on the… Read more »

Africa: Commission for Africa Report Launched

The Commission for Africa (CFA), brainchild of British premier Tony Blair, launched its long-awaited report [pdf] on 11 March, urging increased aid to the continent, but stressing… Read more »

Africa: UK Development Minister To Discuss Enhanced Partnership with ECA

UK Secretary of State for International Development, Hilary Benn, is to meet with ECA Executive Secretary, K.Y. Amoako, during an official visit to Ethiopia next week. Read more »

Africa: UK Development Minister To Discuss Enhanced Partnership With ECA

UK Secretary of State for International Development, Hilary Benn, is to meet with ECA Executive Secretary, K.Y. Amoako, during an official visit to Ethiopia next week. Read more »