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Addis Ababa, 30 March 2023 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), its multilingualism partners and the Permanent Missions in Ethiopia, celebrated International French Language Day on 30 March 2023, at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Commemorated on 20 March

Kinshasa, DRC, 27 March 2023 – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) participated in a signing ceremony ratifying a Framework Agreement for the establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) for the production of Battery and Electric Vehicles (BEV) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Zambia.Chaired by the Prime Minister of the DRC,

Lusaka, Zambia, 3 April 2023 (ECA) - African countries should institute effective debt management strategies to boost economic growth and avoid falling into the debt trap, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Director for Macroeconomics and Governance Division, Adam Elhiraika, has urged.Opening a peer learning workshop on debt management strategies for member states being

Addis Ababa, 20 March 2023 (ECA) - African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development have called for decisive action to reform the global debt architecture to enable the investments needed for achieving sustainable development and climate goals around the world.The call was made at a meeting of the High-level Working Group on the Global Financial Architecture on

Addis Ababa, 31 March 2023 (ECA) - A timely regulatory overhaul of Africa’s fledgling electricity sector will attract private sector investment and ensure energy security on the continent, stakeholders meeting at an electricity dialogue, have agreed.More than 600 million Africans have no access to electricity and Africa generates only 4% of the global energy.

Addis Ababa, 31 March 2023 (ECA) - A timely regulatory overhaul of Africa’s fledgling electricity sector will attract private sector investment and ensure energy security on the continent, stakeholders meeting at an electricity dialogue, have agreed.More than 600 million Africans have no access to electricity and Africa generates only 4% of the global energy.

Yaounde, 29 March 2023 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has launched a program to support Member States in modernizing administrative data for statistical purposes. The program follows the road map for transformation and modernizing official statistics in Africa, which was approved by the ECA’s Conference of Ministers of Finance and Economic Planning last week.

Nairobi, Kenya, 29 March 2023 (ECA) - African countries should promote the free movement of people across their borders to boost intra-African trade, says the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Director of Regional Integration and Trade Division, Stephen Karingi, calling for the speedy ratification of the Protocol on free movement of people.The African Union, recognizing

Windhoek, Namibia, 27 March 2023 - The Namibian Government through the Ministry of Industrialization and Trade, in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Africa Trade Policy Centre, and the United Nations System in Namibia, convened a meeting to validate Namibia’s National Trade Policy.The Draft National Trade Policy outlines policy measures and

The event highlighted the importance of public-private cooperation for shaping an effective reform agenda and scaling up infrastructure investments to drive transformational change in the African energy sector.Addis Ababa, 28 March 2023 (ECA) - In the framework of support from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to Advancing the electricity