Africa: CCDA 5 Innovates, Creates Solution Spaces to Sharpen Africa's Proposals for Cop 21 in Paris

ClimDev-Africa) - The technical committee for the organization of tomorrow's 5th Annual Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA 5) has touted the creation of… Read more »

Africa: CCDA 5 to Be the Launch Pad for Advancing New Frontiers of Climate Research in Africa, Expert Says

The 5th annual Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA 5) which opens here tomorrow promises to be the real launch pad for climate research in Africa,… Read more »

Africa: Denton Fires Up Climdev Partners As Zimbabwe Welcomes Ccda 5

ClimDev-Africa) - The Coordinator of the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), and Director of the Special Initiatives Division at the UN Economic Commission for Africa, has fired… Read more »

Africa: Africa-India Facts & Figures 2015 to be Launched in New Delhi

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) will launch the Africa-India: Facts & Figures 2015, in New Delhi in the… Read more »

Africa: 'Turn the World UN Blue' - UN Buildings in Ethiopia Turn Blue to Mark UN Day

To celebrate the UN's 70th anniversary, the UN buildings in Ethiopia have been lit up blue in the lead up to UN Day, 24 October. The effort is part of a global campaign aimed at… Read more »

Africa: A Tall Agenda Awaits Energy Specialists and Policy Makers At Ccda 5

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 15 2015 (ClimDev-Africa) - Energy specialists and policy makers will have a lot to talk about at the forthcoming Conference on climate Change and… Read more »

Africa: Harnessing Foreign Direct Investment - Calos Lopes Blog

Dubbed the new investment frontier, Africa's attractiveness is becoming more visible to large corporations, institutions and investors. Read more »

Africa: Xenophobia Abhorrent to Regional Integration

Xenophobia and regional economic integration are contradictory. Without the free flow of people, goods and services, there can never be regional integration or building a community… Read more »

Africa: Rabat to Host Continental Trade Forum

Rabat, 20 October 2015 (ECA) - From 27 to 31 October 2015, Rabat (Morocco) will host the Sixth North Africa Development Forum, under the theme "North Africa and Continental Free… Read more »

Africa: Francophone Africa At the School of Vital Statistics

A workshop for Francophone experts in Africa on the Africa Programme on Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (APAI-CRVS, in English) organized by the… Read more »

Africa: The Eca Strengthens the Waemu Capacities On the Asdi

Niamey, October 16, 2015 (ECA) Providing guidance for African States and the Regional Economic Communities forms one of the mandates of the United Nations Economic Commission for… Read more »

Africa: Women, Rural Communities Most Affected By Human Exclusion

ECA- Lusaka 15 October 2015 - Women and rural communities have borne the most of human exclusion in southern Africa. This is according to African Social Development Index - ASDI… Read more »

Africa: Why Zimbabwe Will Welcome Ccda 5 With Fervor

ClimDev-Africa) - This year's annual Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa, the biggest climate change event of the continent, convenes at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe… Read more »

West Africa: Mainstreaming of International Initiatives in Mining Policies in West Africa

The domestication of international and regional initiatives in the mining sector policies, laws and programmes of actions by member countries of the Economic Community of West… Read more »

Africa: Libreville Capital of Anticorruption Network

The Gabonese capital has been chosen as seat of the Network of National Anti-Corruption Institutions in Central Africa (RINAC) after a three-day expert group meeting. Read more »

Africa: Politics and the African - Where to Now?

Africa has experienced good progress in the democratization of its states, institutions and people but democracy remains fragile and tenuous and the possibility of many reversals… Read more »

Africa: North Africans Discuss Regionalisation and the Cfta

The Economic Commission for Africa launched Wednesday 28 October in Rabat (Morocco) a North African private sector workshop on the challenges of trade integration within the… Read more »

Africa: Africa's High Stake in Climate Change

"For Africa, climate change has massive consequences, the continent contributes the least to greenhouse gases but tends to be the most vulnerable to its consequences. This climate… Read more »

Africa: Fruitful Exchanges Between Ms.giovanie Biha and the Niger Authorities

In Niger for an official visit of four days since Sunday, October 4, the Deputy Executive Secretary for Knowledge Delivery of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa… Read more »

Africa: Tripartite Agreement Could Boost Intra-Regional Trade By One Third

Reflecting efforts to boost intra-regional trade and investment, 26 African countries have recently agreed to establish a Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) by January 2016. Read more »

Africa: Praia - Actors From All Horizons and All Capacities Reflect On Trade

After Dakar in June 2015, the ECA chose the Cape Verde peninsula for a new launching of the 2015 edition of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA) in the ECOWAS region. This report… Read more »

Central Africa: Leaders Strengthen Their Anti-Corruption Efforts

Through his second Vice Prime Minister, the Gabonese Head of State has encouraged the establishment of a sub-regional network to combat corruption, on the initiative of the… Read more »

Africa: Preparing Africa for the Next Trade Negotiations - Calos Lopes Blog

The deadlock in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) so called Doha Development Round negotiations remains firmly in place. Negotiators seem unable to meet deadline after deadline… Read more »

Africa: Ministers Call for the Establishment of an African Land Policy Centre

Ministers at the inaugural Conference of the Specialized Technical Committee (STC) on Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environment called for the establishment of an… Read more »

Africa: Mobile and the Citizen - the Role of Mobile Devices in Data Processes in Africa

"We need to find ways to persuade private citizens to collect data and we also have to find ways to allow people to use the data that is already available," concluded Mr. Dozie… Read more »