Africa: Aids Threatens Africa's Development, Amoako Warns

The Chairman of the Commission for HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA), Dr K.Y. Amoako, has opened a meeting of the Commission in Maputo, Mozambique, with a warning to… Read more »

Africa: Blair Africa Commission 'A Chance to Move From Rhetoric To Action'

The UN Economic Commission for Africa's Executive Secretary, K.Y. Amoako, has said he believes the new Commission for Africa launched by British Prime Minister Tony Blair offers an… Read more »

Africa: Governance and Development in Africa: the Critical Nexus

Following is the text (as delivered) of the Andrew Young Lecture of the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa, by Dr. Amoaka, the Executive Secretary of the United… Read more »

Africa: ECA Executive Secretary Amoako To Deliver Andrew Young Lecture in Washington, DC

Economic Commission for Africa Executive Secretary K.Y. Amoako will on Wednesday 18 February 2004 speak on the vital importance of better governance to Africa's development. 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 »

Africa: Africa Comes Prepared to the World Summit on the Information Society

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) comes prepared to make Africa's voice heard at the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to take place in… Read more »

Africa: Experts Prime Africa for Trade Talks

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in partnership with the African Union (AU) and the Government of Ghana organized a Post-Cancun Expert Group Meeting for African Trade… Read more »

Africa: Africans Establish "Road Map" for Future WTO Negotiations

African trade negotiators and development experts gathered in Accra, Ghana in November to discuss the future negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO). At the conclusion… Read more »

Africa: Meeting Concludes that Africa's External Debt Problem Be Put in Wider Context of Financing Development

An Expert Group meeting jointly organised by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Republic of Senegal on 17-18 November 2003 in Dakar gathered about 70 experts from… Read more »

Africa: Conference to Discuss How to Meet Africa's Water Goals

Delegates from about 43 African countries will attend the first Pan African Implementation and Partnership Conference on Water (PANAFCON) in Addis Ababa from 8-13 December 2003, a… Read more »

Africa: Expert Group Meeting on Africa's Debt to Take Place in Dakar

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is co-hosting with the Republic of Senegal an Expert Group Meeting on "Solving Africa's External Debt Problem to Finance Development" from… Read more »

Africa: Capital Markets Workshop Adopts Robust Action Plan

The African Capital Markets Development Workshop, organized by the Economic Commission for Africa, in partnership with the Rand Merchant Bank, closed yesterday in Johannesburg,… Read more »

Africa: ECA Organizing an African Capital Markets Development Workshop

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in partnership with the Rand Merchant Bank, is organizing a workshop on African Capital Markets Development from 27-29 October 2003 in… Read more »

Africa: Delegates From 40 African Countries Meet to Discuss Access to Science and Technology by the Poor

Delegates from more than 40 African countries will attend the third meeting of the Committee on Sustainable Development (CSD3) which opens today at the Economic Commission for… Read more »

Ethiopia: Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA) to Be Launched in Addis Ababa

The Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA) chaired by K.Y. Amoako, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will be officially launched… Read more »

Africa: Commission on HIV/Aids and Governance in Africa to be Launched

The Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA) chaired by K.Y. Amoako, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will be officially launched… Read more »

Africa: Top African Performers Named in Latest Economic Report

African countries that have made the most progress in putting in place the right policies to reduce poverty top the rankings in the latest Economic Report on Africa (ERA 2003), the… Read more »

Africa: Leading Africans Honoured With University Doctorates

Six leading Africans were yesterday awarded honorary doctorate degrees by the Addis Ababa University, at an event organized to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Organization… Read more »

Africa: Coming Soon: 2003 Economic Report on Africa

The 2003 edition of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA 2003), the Economic Commission for Africa's annual flagship publication, will be launched on 30 July. The main theme this… Read more »

Africa: Fourth African Development Forum Confirmed For March 2004

The fourth African Development Forum (ADF IV) will take place from 7 - 11 March 2003 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on theme 'Governance for a Progressing Africa'. Read more »

Africa: UN Economic Commission for Africa Head Backs Plan to Increase Capital Flows to Africa

K.Y. Amoako, executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and a member of the Commission on Capital Flows to Africa, addressed the U.S.-Africa Business… Read more »

Africa: Commission On Capital Flows Report Released Today

The Commission on Capital Flows to Africa, an initiative sponsored by the United States Corporate Council on Africa and the Washington DC-based Institute for International… Read more »

Africa: ECA Head Amoako Says Africa Must Think Beyond HIPC

Opening Statement by K. Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa at The Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. Read more »

Africa: The IMF Should Not Impose, It Should Consult, Says Manuel

Statement by Trevor Manuel, Minister of Finance, Republic of South Africa at the Thirty-Sixth Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Economic… Read more »