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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 ...
La ZLECA sur la sellette lors du forum national du Nigéria sur l’accord historique
(2019-12)
Le Nigéria, qui a signé l’Accord historique de libre-échange continental africain en juillet, organise cette semaine son forum national sur la « Mise en œuvre effective de la ZLECA relative à l’industrialisation et au ...
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 ...
IDEP welcomes its first 2013 Tajudeen Abdul Raheem fellow
(2013-06)
On 3rd June 2013, IDEP welcomed Dr. Dumsile Dlamini the first laureate for 2013 of its Visiting Fellowship Programme for Policy Researchers, also known as “IDEP Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem Fellowships”. Since 1999, Dr Dlamini, ...