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Addis Ababa, 26 January 2021, ECA -- The Zimbabwean business community has been urged to take advantage of the opportunities created by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to enter African markets outside of its traditional trading areas. African Union Commission’s trade expert Willie Shumba gave the advice at a webinar on how private sector operators in Zimbabwe could benefit from the continent-wide trade bloc. They should look beyond the East African Community (EAC), the Common...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 21 January 2021 (ECA) – The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) can help drive the continent’s economic recovery from the deadly coronavirus pandemic and spur transformation, says Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) Regional Integration and Trade Division Director, Stephen Karingi. In remarks during the 6 th PIDA Week, the ECA Director said given that Africa does not have the fiscal space for trillion-dollar stimulus packages as it attempts to ‘build f...

English Analysis on World and 8 other countries about Education, Gender and more; published on 31 Jul 2019 by ECA

January 17, 2021 Many will look back at the year 2020 and wish to forget it, and for good reasons. While we remember the many difficulties and challenges, we come away from the past year grateful and humbled. Amidst a global pandemic and continually changing public directives and orders, the men and women of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office were able to continue operations to provide services to the citizens of Charles County. Our officers on the front lines responded to calls and were rec...

01/12/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/12/2021 20:51 AfCFTA is up and running despite challenges, Secretary General assures critics Addis Ababa, 12 January 2021, ECA - Africas journey to market integration has begun in earnest with the commencement of trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on 1 January, Secretary General Wamkele Mene, said today. Speaking during a virtual press conference, Mr. Mene dismissed talks that the AfCFTA arrangement was being r...

Addis Ababa, 5 December 2020 (ECA) – African leaders at a summit today have approved that trading should start on 1 January next year as scheduled on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement and requested African institutions to provide technical and financial support for its implementation. “We call on women, youth, businesses, trade unions, civil society, cross border traders, the academia, the African Diaspora and other stakeholders to join us as governments in this his...

12/30/2020 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/30/2020 06:27 How ECA helped drive an economic diversification agenda in Central Africa in 2020 The 2020 vision of the Office for Central Africa of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), for a subregion resolutely driven towards economic diversification and transformation, was largely achieved. This, through the nudging of member States to formulate policies and strategies which contributed to an increase of intra-subregional trade ...

Lilongwe, Malawi, December 23, 2020 (ECA) -  The African Land Policy Center (ALPC), a joint programme of the tripartite consortium consisting of the African Union Commission (AUC), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), this week undertook a training to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders in Malawi to effectively identify, assess and address gender-based disparities and exclusion to improve womens rights to land and other productive...

Addis Ababa, 24 December 2020 (ECA) - “We are gathered here today to extend our hand of solidarity in response to an appeal by the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) for support in their COVID-19 response activities,” said Carlos Haddad who heads the Division of Administration at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).  He was speaking during a ceremony to handover two 30 seater Nissan Civilian buses to the EPHI on 24 December 2020 in Addis Ababa - as part of a wider United Nations...

Kigali, 23 December 2020 (ECA) - A consultative meeting to discuss Rwanda’s strategy of the African Continental Free Trade Area, (AfCFTA) opened with a sense of enthusiasm, as representatives of the private sector, civil society and government met to discuss the country’ readiness for the implementation of the agreement. Speaking at the two-day e-meeting, Mr Michel Minega, the Permanent Secretary of Rwanda’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, says that the implementation of AfCFTA is an oppo...