West Africa: United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel - Engage in Dialogue with Potential Partners

Within the framework of the 2018 Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, the Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations… Read more »

Rwanda: ECA and ACBF to Discuss Capacity Building for AFCFTA Implementation

The Economic Commission for Africa and the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) will hold on 13 May in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) a panel discussion on capacity imperatives and… Read more »

Africa: Vera Songwe - 'Access to Clean and Safe Water Is a Human Right'

In her remarks during the opening of Africa Water Week in Addis Ababa on 7 May 2018, Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) deplored the… Read more »

Africa: Now Is the Time for Quality Economic Diversification in Cameroon

- The Douala Consensus, a call by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) for the rapid diversification and industrialization of economies of Central African countries,… Read more »

Africa: ECA and Sudan Agree to Strengthen Cooperation

In a bilateral meeting held today on the margins of the 51st Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, the Economic Commission for Africa and… Read more »

Africa: Stakeholders Support Creation of a Knowledge Exchange Partnership to Improve Climate Services

Under the weather and climate information services for Africa (WISER) policy and enabling environment component, the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), in partnership with… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Free Trade and FDI - A Case of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

A passionate debate on the place of the private sector in the arrangements of the African continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has shored up tensions in thinking around foreign… Read more »

Africa: Mobilize African Citizens for a Successful Continental Free Trade Area, Says Kaberuka

The people of Africa need to be mobilized for the success of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the ongoing African Union (AU) reforms, former African Development… Read more »

Africa: For Africa to Make Meaningful Gains From Afcfta, Leaders Will Need to Walk the Talk

"Africa will certainly make meaningful gains from African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) because our countries are individually and collectively committed", affirmed Mr… Read more »

Africa: Experts Warn Against Lack of Trained AfCFTA Implementers

Capacity building will play a key role in the successful implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area. Read more »

Africa: Given the Right Conditions, Smaller Countries Could Benefit More From Afcfta

ECA's Executive Secretary Vera Songwe led today in Addis-Ababa a High-level Ministerial Dialogue on "The African Continental Free Trade Area: creating fiscal space for jobs and… Read more »

Africa: 2018 ARFSD Ends With Africa Agreeing to Up Its Game in Implementing SGDs

The fourth session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD) ended in Dakar, Senegal, Friday with participants adopting a set of key messages they will take… Read more »

Africa: ECA Work Supporting Africa Implement SDGs Showcased At the ARFSD

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will continue to support African countries in the implementation of Agenda 2063 and Agenda 2030 for sustainable development to ensure the… Read more »

Africa: Youth Can Be Huge Asset for Africa's Economic Transformation If Empowered, Says ECA's Ruzvidzo

Leveraging Africa's demographic dividend for future growth and prosperity is criticalif the continent is to leave no one behind as it surges ahead with the implementation of the… Read more »

Africa: High-Level Panel Meeting On Migration Set for Geneva

Members of the High-Level Panel on Migration in Africa (HLPM) headed by former Liberian President - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - will converge in Geneva from 28 to 29 May to advance… Read more »

Cameroon: New Profile By ECA Urges Cameroon to Step Up Manufacturing and Reduce Social Inequalities

- Despite its laudable development plans as well as the rising level of transformation of its local products, Cameroon still has big gaps to plug in terms of the structural… Read more »

Africa: Time to Stop the 'Dig and Export' Model, Improve Governance, Create Linkages

The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has just released the fifth edition of the African Governance Report (AGR V), which urges countries endowed with abundant natural… Read more »

Africa: Managing Africa's Resources - Time to Stop the 'Dig and Export' Model, Improve Governance, Create Linkages

The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has just released the fifth edition of the African Governance Report (AGR V), which urges countries endowed with abundant natural… Read more »

Africa: Agriculture Is Quintessential for Africa and Must Be Leveraged for Transformation, Says Eca's Songwe

"Agriculture is the quintessential sector for the transformation of the African continent and we must treat it as such," the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for… Read more »

Africa: Senegal Committed to Stepping Up SDGs Implementation, Says Prime Minister Dionne

Senegal is on track implementing the sustainable development goals to ensure no one is left behind by progress, Prime Minister Mohammed Boun Abdalla Dionne said Thursday in his… Read more »

Africa: Senegal Committed to Stepping Up SDGs Implementation, Says Prime Minister Dione

Senegal is on track implementing the sustainable development goals to ensure no one is left behind by progress, Prime Minister Mohammed Boun Abdalla Dione said Thursday in his… Read more »

Africa: Dakar Launches the Fourth Session of the African Regional Forum On Sustainable Development

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with the Government of Senegal, launched the fourth session of the African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development. Read more »

Africa: High-Level Panel At 2018 ARFSD Focuses on Finding Solutions to Africa's Problems

The Fourth Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD) continued in Dakar Thursday with a high-level panel discussing Africa's transformation towards sustainable and… Read more »

Africa: Unowas Chief Urges Africa to Find Homegrown Solutions for Its Challenges

Africa needs to strengthen home grown solutions to its problems and develop innovative financing mechanisms for the huge investments required to achieve the sustainable development… Read more »

Africa: Eastern Africa Has Doubled Its Income Per Capita in a Decade - ECA

Eastern Africa continues to grow rapidly. As a result, the region's average per capita income reached 740 USD in 2016, double the figure ten years earlier. "Albeit from a very low… Read more »