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Leadership baton changes hands at ECA as Janneh retires ECA
(2012-09)
The staff and management of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) await their new Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary following the retirement of Abdoulie Janneh at the end of August 2012 after ...
ECA to hold trade facilitation symposium in Bali
(2013-11)
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is partnering with TRALAC (Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa) to organize a session at the Trade and Development Symposium, a parallel event organized by ICTSD (International ...
ECA engages member states in Geneva ahead of aid for trade global review
(2013-07)
A lively discussion took place in London on the 1st of July after the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) launched the 2013 Economic Report on Africa (ERA). Diplomatic officials, entrepreneurs, business leaders, academics ...
ECA research reveals trade diversification taking root in Africa ECA
(2012-05)
At a two-day meeting of Experts discussing Metrology, Export Diversification and Intra-Industry Trade in Africa a senior UN official this week said, that there is increasing evidence that African countries are engaging in ...
The private sector to the rescue of regional integraton in North Africa
(2014-03)
Evidence shows that the actors in this sector feel increasingly concerned by economic, political and social issues related to the integration process, especially in the North African region who is witnessing currently ...
Connecting to global value chains to boost intra-African trade
(2013-09)
“Aid for Trade, value chains and intra-African Trade” at the ongoing Global Review of Aid for Trade, Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) today stressed the need for closer ...
CFTA negotiations intensify as deadline looms
(2017-11)
David Luke who coordinates the African Trade Policy Centre at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said that the month of November was characterized by a series of meetings by the CFTA Technical Working Groups, the ...
Senegal to host summit on financing Africa's infrastructure
(2014-05)
President Macky Sall of Senegal will host a Summit on financing Africa's infrastructure from June 14-15 in Dakar. The a highly anticipated event will aim to promote the participation of the private sector in the financing ...
Regional integration can boost FDI: experts at AEC say
(2012-10)
Experts at the ongoing African Economic Conference in Kigali today agreed that Africa would need to strengthen regional integration in order to boost increased Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the continent, because it ...
Cameroon assures ECA it will ratify Africa’s Free Trade Area Agreement
(2019)
The African Continental Free Trade Area is more than just a trade agreement – it is a recipe for engendering domestic growth, Ms. Songwe iterated to Cameroon’s Head of Government. ECA’s Executive Secretary catalogued further ...