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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