Africa: Ali Mufuruki - Optimization and Innovative Use of Land Crucial for Africa's Economic Transformation

Africa needs to rethink how it uses its land resources to ensure there is optimization and innovative use which will help spur the economic transformation of the continent, says… Read more »

Africa: With Better Land Governance, Africa Can Stop Spending $35 Billion Annually On Food Importations

As a rich continent with vast agricultural and land resources, Africa should be able to feed all her people without any problems, Benjamin Laag, Counsellor for Economic Cooperation… Read more »

Africa: ECA, Itfc Partner to Increase Trade Between Arab and African Countries to Generate Growth and Employment

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) signed today an agreement to step up their cooperation in support to… Read more »

Africa: Funding of Regional Projects At the Heart of Discussion During Pida Week

The financing of cross-border infrastructure projects is a key driver for progress and acceleration of Africa's regional integration. Read more »

North Africa: Increased Intra-African Trade, Key to Increase Employment in North Africa

The ECA Office for North Africa launched today, in partnership with the Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform of Egypt the 34th edition of the… Read more »

Africa: Fighting Corruption in the Land Sector Must Be Underpinned By Effective Land Governance

The 2019 Conference on Land Policy in Africa opened Monday, with resounding calls for effective land governance as critical to fighting corruption achieving Africa's continental… Read more »

Africa: ECA, AUC and AfDB Launch the Agriculture and Food Security Joint Thematic Working Group in Abidjan

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), under the auspices of the Joint Secretariat… Read more »

Africa: Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in Atmosphere Reach Yet Another High

Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological Organization. This continuing long-term trend… Read more »

Africa: Emissions Gap Report 10 Year Summary

To mark ten years of the Emissions Gap Report, and inform the Climate Action Summit, UNEP released Lessons from a decade of emissions gap assessments. Read more »

Africa: Clpa2019 - Effective Land Governance Critical to Africa's Development

Effective land governance is critical to achieving Africa's development, particularly the continent's 50-year development plan, Agenda 2063, says Economic Commission for Africa's… Read more »

Africa: ECA-Led Road Safety Initiative Praised By Officials in Cairo

Africa has the highest road traffic fatality rates in the world. 650 people are estimated to be killed by road accidents every day, yet the continent is the least motorized region… Read more »

Africa: Women On a Mission for Peace

A joint United Nations and African Union Solidarity Mission: Women, peace and security for development in the Horn of Africa Read more »

Africa: All Set for the 2019 Conference On Land Policy in Africa

All is set for the third edition of the Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA-2019) which kicks off Monday in Abidjan. Read more »

Africa: Enthusiasm for Regional Integration, As ECA and Trademark East Africa Conduct National Forum On the AfCFTA

The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Trademark East Africa (TMEA) launched the National impact assessment report that presented the effects of the African Continental… Read more »

West Africa: ECA and Partners Convene Capacity Building Workshop On Infrastructure Delivery and PPPs in West Africa

The Economic Commission for Africa and its partners the Global Infrastructure Hub and the African Development Bank will convene A workshop from 26 - 28 November 2019 in Dakar,… Read more »

Africa: The Economic Situation and Short-Term Economic Forecasts for Cabo Verde and the Anglophone Countries of the Ecowas Is the Focus of a Seminar in Accra

A seminar on the recent economic situation and short-term economic forecasts for Cabo Verde and the Anglophone countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)… Read more »

Africa: Experts Discuss Fiscal Risks in Public Private Partnerships

The Macroeconomics and Governance Division of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on Tuesday held an Experts' Group Meeting (EGM) to review and validate the draft study on… Read more »

Africa: Experts Urge Member States to Mainstream Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Into Blue Economy Policies

- Experts have urged member States to mainstream climate change and environmental sustainability into blue economy sub-regional and national policies, strategies and plans. Read more »

Africa: Namibia to Implement a Blue Economy Governance and Management System By 2022 Says Khomas Region Governor

ECA, MFMR) - Namibia is in the process of finalising a blue economy national policy as outlined in its 5th National Development Plan (NDP5). Read more »

Africa: Blue Economy Can Be a Site of Economic Production - ECA

-"The blue economy can be a site of economic production, which through its value chain process, can link small, medium and big production firms and thereby promote the alleviation… Read more »

Africa: Stronger Data and Evidence Crucial for Africa's Policymakers

With stronger data and evidence, African governments and partners are better equipped to understand and plan for future risk and to monitor progress toward targets under… Read more »

Africa: Let Us Make the Invisible Visible, Says ECA's Chinganya As Africa Marks African Statistics Day

Everyone counts: quality statistics for better management of forced displacement in Africa, was the theme of day as Africans around the globe marked African Statistics Day today. Read more »

Africa: UN Calls for Action to Tackle 'Ubiquitous but Invisible' Global Road Safety Crisis

Saving lives by improving road safety is "one of the many objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", the United Nations chief said in his message for the global… Read more »

Southern Africa: With Onset of the Rains, SADC Region On Tenterhooks Following Last Season's Cyclones Idai & Kenneth

The rains are back in Southern Africa bringing dreadful memories to citizens of Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique who in the last rainy season bore the brunt of devastating Cyclones… Read more »

North Africa: North Africa's 34th Icsoe to Focus On Trade Facilitation, Employment Issues

The Economic Commission for Africa will hold, in partnership with the Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administration Reform of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the 34th… Read more »