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African Ministers of energy and mineral resources make common cause with development partners: Dialogue in Durban
(1997-11)
Thirty-four member States of the United Nations Commission for Africa (ECA) have concluded a 3-day meeting from 22-24 November 1997 in Durban, South Africa. It was the Second Conference of African Ministers responsible for ...
Ad hoc expert group meeting on guidelines for natural resources and energy development in Africa with emphasis on privatization and deregulation Addis Ababa, 14-16 October 1996
(1996-10)
A three day Ad hoc expert group meeting on guidelines for natural resources and energy development in Africa with emphasis on privatization and deregulation, was held in Addis Ababa from 14-16 October 1996. Based on the ...
Ministers discuss better management of Africa's natural resources
(2007-02)
Ministers from several African countries today began informal discussions on how to better manage Africa's natural resources for economic growth and poverty reduction on the continent. They are meeting within the framework ...
Experts meeting opens with call for the scaling-up of resources to meet MDGs
(2007-03)
African governments to scale up investments in order to ensure the continent achieves the MDGs. It reminded the experts that September this year would mark the mid-point to the MDGs target date of 2015. The central message ...
Africa 's Mineral Resources Ministers Endorse ECA inspired Mining Vision
(2008-10)
The 1st Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Conference of Ministers Responsible for Mineral Resources Development ended on Friday 17th October with a tacit endorsement of the draft “Africa Mining Vision”, which has ...
Africa 2.0: harnessing natural resource wealth for economic transformation
(2013-09)
The forum will discuss the need to create opportunities for sustainable employment and wealth creation and the need for Africa to make the most of its natural resources. In this regard, concentrating on the sectors that ...
Kick start African Green Fund with existing climate change resources, Janneh tells Cancun conference
(2010-12)
UN Under Secretary -General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mr. Abdoulie Janneh today strongly suggested that at least 60 percent of the $30 billion fast-track fund agreed in Copenhagen ...
Lawmakers benefit from training in natural resource policy and contract negotiations
(2016-12)
The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) and the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI) recently jointly organized a course on “Natural Resource ...
Adding value to natural resources: a multilevel challenge
(2014-05)
This article was written and Published by Mr. Antonio M.A. Pedro, Director of the Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa at the United Nations Economic Commission on Africa (UNECA) and Co-Chair of the UN Sustainable ...
Framework of hope launched to equip women in transparent use of DRC resources
(2014-01)
At the Official Launch of the Women’s Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Great Lakes, dubbed, the ‘framework of hope’, Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Economic ...