UN Secretary General set to attend African Union Summit
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UN Secretary General set to attend African Union Summit
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 24, 2018 (ECA) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will this weekend attend the African Union Summit that started in Addis Ababa on January 22.
The summit will be held under the theme: “Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation.”
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ECA’s Songwe urges high level panel to help tackle Africa’s migration challenges
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ECA’s Songwe urges high level panel to help tackle Africa’s migration challenges
Monrovia, Liberia, January 16, 2018 (ECA) – Members of the High Level Panel on Migration (HLPM), which was launched last June, held their inaugural meeting in Monrovia Monday to identify and articulate key issues that form the African migration story, challenges and priorities that will form the basis of their work.
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Message from ECA Executive Secretary on 16 Days Activism on Violence Against Women.
MESSAGE FROM VERA SONGWE, ECA EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
UNiTE to END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN CAMPAIGN’S COMMEMORATION
16 DAYS ACTIVISM ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
FROM 25– NOVEMBER TO 11 DECEMBER 2017
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Africa needs to fix its energy problems to accelerate and sustain growth, says ECA’s Songwe
Addis Ababa, December 4, 2017 (ECA) – Africa will not be able to accelerate and sustain growth without adequate access to energy, says Economic Commission for Africa’s Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe.
In remarks to the 12th African Economic Conference that opened in Addis Ababa Monday, Ms. Songwe said under developed energy infrastructure and growing demand could help attract more private sector investment and accelerate energy development.
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ECA Chief urges stakeholders to deliver a ‘timely and meaningful’ CFTA
Niamey, 1 December 2017 (ECA) - The Execute Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Vera Songwe, made a case for the Continental Free Trade Area on the historic ambition to integrate Africa’s fragmented markets and deliver African prosperity.
She was speaking at the opening of a two-day meeting of African Ministers of Trade (AMOT) in Niamey on 1 December 2017. The AMOT meeting is expected to examine and approve the text of the Agreement establishing the CFTA.
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In Cameroon, ECA’s Pedro confers with agriculture minister on the ‘Douala Consensus’
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In Cameroon, ECA’s Pedro confers with agriculture minister on the ‘Douala Consensus’
Yaoundé, 8 November 2017 (ECA) - The director of the Economic Commission for Africa’s Subregional Office for Central Africa (ECA/SRO-CA), Antonio Pedro, met with Cameroon’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Henri Eyebe Ayissi, on Tuesday November 7 to discuss the operationalization of the Douala Consensus, which was adopted during the 33th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts for Central Africa (ICE2017) in Douala.
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Africa Week highlights efforts to address climate-change and migration in relation to peace and security
New York, 19 October 2017 (ECA) - During a session themed, Climate-Change-Migration nexus and its implications for peace and security in Africa, speakers and representatives from member states, private sector and civil society organizationsattending the 2017 Africa Week shared diverse perspectives from their respective mandates, with close attention paid to the implications for young people and women.
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