Africa: Calls for African Governments to Intensify Efforts to Build Resilience and Protect Livelihoods

Governments have been urged to intensify efforts to build resilience in businesses and people as they shift to a new normal that includes safe co-existence with COVID-19.… Read more »

Africa: Experts Urged to Ensure Recovery Policies Are Inclusive

African governments have been cautioned to ensure recovery policies are inclusive and address the existing gender inequalities to mitigate the adverse impact of the COVID-19… Read more »

Africa: Data, Platforms and Analytics Helping Africa Combat Covid-19, Says ECA's Chinganya

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) on Wednesday hosted a virtual webinar showcasing the power of data… Read more »

Central Africa: Planners, Others Welcome ECA's Push for Development Corridors in Central Africa

Transforming Central Africa's transport corridors into all-encompassing development corridors is crucial for moving to the region's next development and integration frontier,… Read more »

Mauritius: Mauritius Holds a Meeting to Review Its National AfCFTA Response Strategy

The government of Mauritius, with technical assistance from the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and financial support from the European Union (EU), is holding a one-day… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria Becomes 34th Country to Ratify AfCFTA Agreement

Addis Ababa 5 December 2020, (ECA) - Nigeria deposited its instrument of ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement on 5 December, becoming the 34th member… Read more »

Africa: African Economic Conference Opens With Calls for African Solutions to Covid-19 Challenges

The 2020 edition of the African Economic Conference (AEC) opened virtually on Tuesday with calls for the continent's policymakers, researchers, development partners, and champions… Read more »

Africa: Africa Is More Prepared to Fight New Covid-19 Wave

Africa is better prepared to deal with a second wave of COVID-19 after stakeholders put measures in place to counter the initial pandemic's adverse health effects. This is… Read more »

Africa: How the Digitalization of African Trade Will Help Realise the AfCFTA

Participants at the 2020 edition of the African Economic Conference have been told that digitalization of trade across the continent can significantly boost free trade in Africa,… Read more »

Africa: Dealing With the Micro - and Macroeconomic Impacts of Covid-19 On Africa

Experts agree that Africa's governments will have to strike a balance between health, economic and social policy interventions in the coming months to mitigate the negative impact… Read more »

Africa: Hope for a More Prosperous Africa Beyond Covid-19

Beyond the dark cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic is a silver lining of a more sustainably prosperous Africa. This was the message from the panellists who gathered virtually on the… Read more »

Africa: African Economic Conference 2020 - Africa Beyond Covid-19: Acceleration Towards Inclusive Sustainable Development

WHAT: African Economic Conference 2020: Africa beyond COVID-19: acceleration towards inclusive sustainable development Read more »

Africa: African Union Approves Start of Trading Under AfCFTA On 1 January Next Year As Earlier Agreed

African leaders at a summit today have approved that trading should start on 1 January next year as scheduled on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement and… Read more »

Togo: ECA and Togo Train Customs Officials, Licensed Agents for AfCFTA Era Trading

The West Africa office of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Togolese government last week organized a workshop in Dapaong to enhance the capacity of its customs… Read more »

Central Africa: A Rendezvous to Transform Central Africa's Routes Into Development Trajectories

How can Central African countries reconfigure existing transport highways which interconnect them, while building and linking new ones in a way that engines and supports… Read more »

Africa: Secretary-General's Address At Columbia University - "The State of the Planet"

President Bollinger, Read more »

Africa: Disability Is Not an Illness, Webinar to Mark International Day of Persons With Disabilities Emphasizes

The ECA on Thursday joined the rest of the world in marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) with a webinar focusing on the theme of the day; Building Back… Read more »

Africa: Continental Coding Boot Camp Kicks Off the Un75 Decade of Action

Approximately 2000 African Girls are participating in a continental coding bootcamp aimed at promoting the importance of ICTs as a tool for the empowerment of women. Read more »

Africa: Geospatial Information Critical for Africa's Sustainable Development

The Sixth Meeting of the Regional Committee Read more »

West Africa: Inclusive and Sustainable Growth Critical for West Africa's Successful Transformation

There can be no meaningful and successful transformational development in West Africa in the absence of inclusive growth and development, Nigeria's Minister of State for Budget and… Read more »

Lesotho: Tunisia and Lesotho Join Growing Number of Countries to Ratify AfCFTA One Month to Start of Trading

One month to the commencement of trading at the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, two more countries have formalized their ratification of the agreement. Read more »

Africa: ECA to Host Virtual Sixth UN Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa Meeting

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is ready to host the sixth United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa (UN-GGIM: Africa) Committee… Read more »

Africa: Thousands Brace for a Continental ICT Camp for African Girls

Over 3000 women and girls from across Africa are expected to participate in a hybrid (online and in-person) event scheduled to run from 30 November to 11 December 2020, focusing on… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Customs Chiefs Commit to Implementing New Continental Covid-19 Trade Facilitation Guidelines

Africa's customs experts have given their support to the adoption of continental guidelines to facilitate free and timely flow of cross-border trade amid the COVID-19 pandemic… Read more »

Africa: Professor Laban Ayieko Ogallo - Message of Condolences

The Climate Science community in Africa learned with shock of the sudden passing of Professor Laban Ayieko Ogallo on the 20th November 2020 in Nairobi due to sudden illness. Read more »