Mr. Rene Kouassi, Director of Economic Affairs, African Union Commission has urged experts this week to advance regional integration goals and move from ' intergovernmentalism to supernaturalism and from corporation to ...

The first African Forum on Business and Human Rights concluded today with a strong call for action to make business a force for improving human rights in Africa. The African Regional Forum, held from 16 to 18 September in ...

A new report launched states that in spite of recent progress, African countries need to sustain efforts to eradicate extreme poverty and gender inequality and also improve their statistical capabilities to implement and ...

The 5th CCDA comes at the time when several voices have been raised as to the very future the mighty Victoria Falls because of the toll climate impacts appears to be taking on one of the longest waterfalls in the world. ...

During a panel on SDGs implementation at the regional and sub regional levels at the ongoing High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Regional Economic Commissions shared perspectives on informed by their ...

A meeting of experts to advance Africa’s anti-corruption agenda has called for “concerted action in the battle against corruption and a strategic, multi-faceted approach that brings on board multiple actors and stakeholders.” ...

The 2017 Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD) officially kicked-off in Addis Ababa today with Acting Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Abdalla Hamdok, calling on Africa to stop ...

The Economic Commission for Africa and its partners on Friday launched a report, which looks at Africa’s performance on the Millennium Development Goals to date and provides a transition to Africa’s 50-year development ...

Africa’s agricultural, mining and energy resources could boost the continent’s economic growth and pave the way for a breakthrough in human development, according to the African Economic Outlook 2013, released here today. ...

Broad support for policies and actions that will generate resources in support of the implementation of a new sustainable development agenda emerged from the United Nations Third International Conference on Financing for ...