ECA’s 52nd session opens with calls for investments and productivity to African leaders
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ECA’s 52nd session opens with calls for investments and productivity to African leaders
Marrakech / Addis Ababa 25 March 2019 (ECA) – With a collective resolve, “Africa can raise the U$680 billion a year needed to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a decade,” Vera Songwe – Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, told African ministers and hundreds of delegates attending the Commission’s 52nd Session, Monday, in Morocco’s historic city – Marrakech.
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UN and AU leaders give merits to joint development mechanism for Africa
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CoM2019: Private sector key to improving quality of healthcare in Africa
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Infrastructure worth over a billion dollars lost to Cyclone Idai, says ECA Chief
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Infrastructure worth over a billion dollars lost to Cyclone Idai, says ECA Chief
Marrakesh, Morocco, 24 March 2019 (ECA) – Africa could have lost infrastructure worth more than a billion dollars following Cyclone Idai, the storm that battered Mozambique, Malawi, Madagascar and Zimbabwe last week, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, said Sunday.
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Time for the UN and African Union to coherently address Africa’s development priorities
Marrakech, 23 March 2019 (ECA) - The African Union declared 2019 as a year of: "Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa". A vision which experts say could be attained when institutions operating in Africa work together and ensure coherence and complementarity in the implementation of development projects.
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African countries can do better with improved fiscal policy, says Songwe
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African countries can do better with improved fiscal policy, says Songwe
Marrakesh, Morocco, March 20, 2019 (ECA) – The 38th meeting of the Committee of Experts of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development opened in Marrakesh, Morocco, Wednesday with a clarion call for African countries to improve their fiscal policy and expand their tax base so they can ably fund their developmental processes.
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UN family mourns the victims of Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines Crash
Addis Ababa, 10 March 2019 (ECA) - The UN family has received the news of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed at 8:44 this morning with profound shock and dismay. The Boeing 737-800 crashed in Bishoftu, shortly after take off from Bole International Airport.
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