December 04, 2018
Africa: An External Peer Review Meeting On the Draft Economic Report On Africa 2019
An external peer review meeting on the draft Economic Report on Africa 2019 will be held on 10 and 11 December 2018 in United Nations Conference LBR from 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Read more »
December 03, 2018
Africa: AEC 2018 - Africa Must Focus On Its Big Resource - Its Young People, Experts Urge
Professor Paul Collier, one of the world's most influential development economists, warns that Africa's "easy decade" of accelerated economic growth is coming to an end, and only… Read more »
Africa: ECA's Biha Urges Africa to Rally Behind Afcfta At African Economic Conference
Deputy Executive Secretary Giovanie Biha of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on Monday issued an impassioned plea for countries that are yet to sign the historic African… Read more »
Africa: Executive Secretary Leads ECA in Marking International Day of Persons With Disabilities
The Economic Commission for Africa's management is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities have the right support to access all services, technologies and systems at… Read more »
Africa: Experts Weigh in On New Strategy for Financing Africa's Infrastructure
A draft report by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) titled, "Attracting Institutional Investors in Africa's Infrastructure," has undergone a thorough review… Read more »
November 29, 2018
Africa: Adopt Harmonised Land Policy, Experts Urge Members States
The two days Ad Hoc Experts Group Meeting (AEGM) on the theme "Land, Identity and Socio-Economic Transformation in Southern Africa" has ended today with experts urging Member… Read more »
Africa: Launch of the 2018 Africa Sustainable Development Report - Towards a Transformed and Resilient Continent
The 2018 Africa Sustainable Development Report: Towards a transformed and resilient continent was launched during the 12th Session of the Committee of Director-Generals of the… Read more »
Africa: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence - November 25 - December 10, 2018
16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is an international UNiTE advocacy campaign to challenge violence against women and girls. Read more »
November 08, 2018
Africa: Private Sector Urged to Invest in Africa's Transboundary Infrastructure Projects
A senior adviser on regional integration and trade at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Adeyinka Adeyemi, has assured private sector investors that… Read more »
November 29, 2018
Africa: Pida Week Ends With Calls On Africa to Accelerate Implementation of Game-Changing Infrastructure Projects
Addressing Africa's infrastructure gap remains an imperative that African governments should continue to take seriously if the continent is to realise the aspirations its people as… Read more »
November 28, 2018
Africa: Mauritania Iguide Now Available to Investors
- The online investment guide (iGuide) to Mauritania was officially launched in Nouakchott on 22 November in the presence of the media and representatives of the public and private… Read more »
November 27, 2018
Africa: ECA Chief Pledges Continued Support for Africa's Blue Economy
In her remarks during the Leaders Commitment Segment of the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference on 26 November in Nairobi, Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic… Read more »
November 24, 2018
Africa: Weather Forecasting Experts Converge for a Write-Shop to Draft an African Regional Climate Outlook Forum Best Practices Document
More than 20 weather experts from across Africa met in Windhoek, Namibia from the 22-23 November to identify best practices in the African Regional Climate Outlook Forum (RCOFs)… Read more »
November 27, 2018
Africa: ECA Presents New Harmonized Regional Framework for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda (Nua) in Africa to Local Authorities
-The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) hosted a session on the recently-produced Harmonized Regional Framework for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda… Read more »
Africa: Investors Can Now Make Use of a New Online Guide to Mauritania
The online investment guide (iGuide) to Mauritania was officially launched in Nouakchott on 22 November in the presence of the media and representatives of the public and private… Read more »
November 06, 2018
Africa: Africa Seeks to Make International Trade Cheaper, Faster and Easier At Addis Ababa Forum
African countries seeking to reduce the cost, time and complexity of interregional and international trade in goods and services will gather for the First African Forum for… Read more »
November 27, 2018
Africa: Let Us Make Africa's Infrastructure Competitive, Zimbabwean Minister Urges Continent At Pida Week
Africa needs to unite and work hard to reverse colonial infrastructure systems which promoted the extraction of profitable agricultural and mineral wealth for export at the expense… Read more »
November 26, 2018
Africa: ECA's Soteri Urges African Countries to Sign the Luxembourg Protocol
Railways are the key to open and free trade across Africa and their development is critical to the continent's sustainable development agenda, Soteri Gatera, Chief of… Read more »
Africa: Africa's Infrastructure Deficit Under Spotlight As Pida Week 2018 Opens in Victoria Falls
The Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Week 2018 opened in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Monday with a media breakfast that brought together journalists,… Read more »
November 03, 2018
Africa: ECA and Partners Meet for Blue Economy Conference in Nairobi
The two-day event kicks off on 26 November with focus on the priorities and challenges of establishing a sustainable blue economy and its contribution to the implementation of the… Read more »
Africa: ECA Urges Local Authorities to Harness Economic and Social Transitions for Sustainable Development
Local governments have a tremendous opportunity to engage, own and translate Africa's macroeconomic and social transitions into their own development strategies, said Lilia Hachem… Read more »
Central Africa: Economic Diversification, Resilience, Free Trade At the Heart of UN Support to Central Africa
Officials of United Nations agencies and other development institutions working in Central Africa, as well as those of the General Secretariat of ECCAS and the CEMAC Commission… Read more »
November 23, 2018
Africa: Retreat of the Idep Technical Advisory Committee
From 31 October to 01 November 2018, the IDEP Technical Advisory Committee retreat was held in Dakar (Senegal) on the review of IDEP's training activities and research program. The… Read more »
November 22, 2018
West Africa: The ECA and Its Partners Meet to Improve On the Implementation of the Centre of Excellence in Demographic Dynamics for Development in West Africa
The Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA/SRO-WA) is organizing, starting today at the National School of Statistics and… Read more »
November 23, 2018
Africa: East African Countries Agree to Strenghten Regional Integration Through the Continental Free Trade Area
Kigali, Rwanda, 22 November - Representatives of 14 countries in East Africa have agreed that the African Continental Free Trade Area, the AfCFTA, represents a unique opportunity… Read more »