March 03, 2019
Africa: Com 19 Calls for Concerted Efforts to Move to the Next Step of Regional Integration
The African Development Bank (AfDB), the government of Morocco and COMESA call for a single strategy and commitment from all partners to ensure that regional integration moves into… Read more »
Africa: Time for the UN and African Union to Coherently Address Africa's Development Priorities
The African Union declared 2019 as a year of: "Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa". A vision which… Read more »
March 02, 2019
Africa: African Free Trade Is Almost Here, Delegates to Eca's 52nd Session Rejoice
Delegates attending the 38th meeting of the Committee of Experts of the ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development have applauded the Federal… Read more »
Africa: Smart Ways of Buying Africa's Railway Vehicles, Up for Debate At Com2019
An event to kick start solid arrangements for the innovative financing of railway vehicles that would ply the African Integrated High Speed Railway Network, one of the African… Read more »
Africa: ECA's 52nd Session to Highlight Requisite Place of Youths in Africa's Leap-Forward
The ongoing 52nd ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (COM2019), is opening up a decisive window to emphasize the important place of… Read more »
Africa: 8th North African Development Forum to Discuss Smart Maritime Transport in Marrakech
The 8th edition of the North Africa Development Forum will take place on Saturday 23 March in Marrakech under the theme: "Blue Economy in North Africa: Smart Maritime Transport in… Read more »
Africa: Africa Prepares Tomorrow's Employment in Marrakech
As globalization, technological breakthroughs, demography and climate change are deeply transforming the global job market, is Africa able to provide a workforce that matches the… Read more »
Africa: Can Gender Budgeting Finance Inclusive Development in Africa?
The Economic Commission for Africa will organize, in partnership with UN Women and the Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom of Morocco, a meeting on "Gender-sensitive budgeting: a… Read more »
Africa: Cameroon's Critical Role in Implementing Africa's Free Trade Area, Rebooted
Cameroon needs the markets that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will create to achieve the its goal of becoming an upper middle-income state, the country's… Read more »
East Africa: Multinationals Have an Important Role to Play in Integrating the Economies of Eastern Africa
Addis Ababa, 20 February (ECA) - According to the UN Economic Commission for Africa, US and other foreign investors have potentially a very important role to play in accelerating… Read more »
March 01, 2019
Africa: Experts Review Guidelines for National Afcfta Implementation Plans
Experts from the Economic Commission for Africa's (ECA), African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) are meeting in Libreville, Gabon today to review the guidelines for preparing national… Read more »
February 28, 2019
Africa: ATPC Fourth Steering Committee Meeting
The African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) held its fourth Steering Committee Meeting (SCM) from 27 to 28 February 2019 in Libreville,… Read more »
Africa: ECA Discusses With Journalists the Enormous Potential Offered By the Afcfta
- The success of the African Continental Free Trade area will depend on a range of policies to address trade, investment and industrialization barriers and the media will play a… Read more »
February 26, 2019
Africa: RCM-Africa Retreat Focuses On Strengthening Efforts to Deliver for Continent
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is this week hosting a Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa retreat in Debra Zeit, Ethiopia, ahead of the 20th Session of RCM-Africa… Read more »
February 22, 2019
Africa: ECA-Uruguay partnership to focus on Africa's agricultural sector
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 22, 2019 (ECA) – A delegation from the Government of Uruguay on Friday met with the Economic Commission for Africa’s Deputy Executive… Read more »
Africa: ECA-Uruguay Partnership to Focus On Africa's Agricultural Sector
A delegation from the Government of Uruguay on Friday met with the Economic Commission for Africa's Deputy Executive Secretary, Giovanie Biha, and discussed ways through which the… Read more »
February 21, 2019
Africa: Bold Leadership Crucial for Ebola Eradication, Says ECA's Biha
Eradicating the Ebola Virus Disease from Africa requires bold leadership at different tiers of government and society, Economic Commission for Africa's (ECA) Deputy Executive… Read more »
February 15, 2019
Ethiopia: Forum Focuses On Ethiopian Women's Health - Agrees There's Need to Increase Funding for Sector
The Economic Commission for Africa and the World Health Organization on Friday hosted a meeting in Addis Ababa to discuss women's health issues in Ethiopia. Read more »
Africa: African Minerals Development Centre Moves From ECA to African Union Commission
The Economic Commission for Africa on Friday officially handed over the African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) to the African Union Commission (AUC) following its inception in… Read more »
February 14, 2019
Africa: Hunger on the rise in Africa, new UN report reveals
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 13, 2019 (ECA) - A new United Nations report reveals that hunger is on the rise in Africa following years of decline due to a number of reasons,… Read more »
Africa: African Private Sector Leaders Take the Lead to Rewrite Africa's Healthcare Narrative, With Support From African Heads of State
GBCHealth, Aliko Dangote Foundation and the UN Economic Commission for Africa jointly held the inaugural Africa Business: Health Forum on the margins of the 32nd African Union… Read more »
February 13, 2019
Africa: Hunger On the Rise in Africa, New UN Report Reveals
A new United Nations report reveals that hunger is on the rise in Africa following years of decline due to a number of reasons, including difficult global economic conditions,… Read more »
February 12, 2019
Africa: The Great Debate Focuses On How to Fix Africa's Healthcare
There was consensus Tuesday during the great debate on health as an economic driver in Africa at the Africa Business Health Forum 2019 that governments on the continent need to… Read more »
Africa: Public-Private Partnerships Crucial to Change Face of Healthcare in Africa, Says Drogba
Chelsea and Ivory Coast football legend Didier Drogba on Tuesday said he will do all he can to support private sector participation in the continent's health sector. Read more »
Africa: Songwe - Africa's Health and Wellness Sector Has Potential to Create Millions of Jobs
Africa should stop exporting much-needed jobs to other continents and invest in its pharmaceutical industry, in particular, to provide for its people and create jobs for its… Read more »
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