Executive Secretary

« Les technologies numériques peuvent transformer nos systèmes de santé et d’éducation »

Thu, 05/28/2020 - 10:25 -- Abraham.Tameru

Pour l’économiste Vera Songwe, les pays africains doivent accélérer le développement des nouvelles applications pour cibler les plus vulnérables.

Les technologies numériques ont le potentiel de transformer nos systèmes de santé et d’éducation débordés, et de poser les bases de la réussite économique. Mais, trop souvent, l’enthousiasme suscité par une nouvelle application ingénieuse, pour la salle de classe ou la clinique, occulte le fait que la technologie à elle seule n’est pas la panacée.

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Powering Africa's Transformation with Clean Energy

Wed, 05/27/2020 - 20:21 -- Abraham.Tameru

By Vera Songwe and Scott Mather

The African Continent today stands at a sustainable development crossroads.

On the one hand, the economic and governance picture suggests that Africa is poised to play a major role in the world—with burgeoning trade, investment, and demographic and population trends that, while posing living standard issues, also promise robust and expanding markets.

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Africa needs G20's help to tackle the coronavirus challenge

Wed, 05/27/2020 - 17:54 -- Abraham.Tameru

By Vera Songwe

Not since our species first emerged out of Africa have we been so linked as one human family, sharing so many common opportunities and threats. So, when world leaders met virtually as the G20 on Thursday to plan humanity’s global-scale Covid-19 fightback, it was in everyone's collective interest that Africa sat centrally within that strategy – central to the global health response, as well as the economic and jobs response.

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A Progress Report by the UN’s Vera Songwe on the Status of African Debt Relief

Wed, 05/27/2020 - 17:39 -- Abraham.Tameru

Economic conditions in a number of African countries are worsening by the day. Lockdowns and a plummet in global commodity prices brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have led to severe economic repercussions across the continent.

At the same time, Africa’s estimated $400 billion of debt is weighing on policymakers’ ability to devote more resources to combat the worsening public health crisis in their countries. 

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Africa’s Finance Ministers and Private Sector Group seek to rapidly resolve commercial debt service obligations together

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 18, 2020 (ECA) – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on Monday convened a meeting between African Finance Ministers, the Africa Private Sector Working Group and the African Union (AU) Special Envoy on COVID-19 as the search continues for solutions to ensure African economies enjoy continued market access and meet their private sector debt service obligations.

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