Experts attending the Kigali launch of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA) urged African countries to put into operation, individually and collectively, policy recommendations of the 2013 edition of the report. The report, ...

The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Mr. Carlos Lopes participate in the 2014 Delhi Sustainable Development Summit organized under the auspices of the Energy and Resources Institute. While in ...

The 17th ICE will put emphasis on the urgent need for the sub-region to enhance its huge agricultural, mineral and energy potential to accelerate growth and development in accordance with the ECOWAS 2020 Vision. The untapped ...

The President of Benin, Mr. Boni Yayi, today praised the intellectual leadership role that Mr. Carlos Lopes and his team at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) played in bringing content into the Africa ...

A new report by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) says while the linkages between the economic, social and environmental pillars of sustainable development are well understood within Southern Africa, the sub region ...

The United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned that Africa’s population growth rates could trigger serious competition resources such as energy, ...

The Director General, Mr. Joachim von Braun, and Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), met with the Executive Secretary, Abdoulie Janneh, and senior ECA officials at the Commission’s ...

The CIE is the deliberative organ of ECA Office for North Africa and includes representatives of seven countries: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia . It holds its statutory meeting every year ...

The Ninth African Development Forum [1] will be held in Marrakech, Morocco, from 12 to 16 October 2014 on the theme "Innovative financing for Africa's transformation”. The Forum is the United Nations Economic Commission ...

The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Mr. Carlos Lopes paid a visit to Kampala, Uganda at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the UN Country Team to address a High Level Dialogue ...