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At the 23rd consultative meeting on gender mainstreaming in the African Union that commenced in Addis Ababa, Thursday, Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa said that food security is within reach and that "Africa can and should feed Africa". Speaking at the opening of the pre-African Union Summit meeting held on the theme Empowering Women for...

The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mr. Carlos Lopes has joined Africans and the world at large in paying tribute to BBC Presenter, Komla Dumor who died in London January 18, 2014.

Addis Ababa — At the 23rd consultative meeting on gender mainstreaming in the African Union that commenced in Addis Ababa, Thursday, Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa said that food security is within reach and that "Africa can and should feed Africa". Speaking at the opening of the pre-African Union Summit meeting held on the theme...

Regional integration within the SADC region is visible, but like other parts of the continent, requires extreme hastening, according to the Executive Secretary of the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa, Dr Carlos Lopes, in an interview with reporter Andrè le Roux.

Abu Dhabi, 18 January 2014 (ECA) - Following the launch of the Africa Clean Energy Corridor (ACEC) by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in January 2013 to accelerate the adoption of renewable power options for the Eastern and Southern African Power Pools, a Ministerial meeting to consider the ACEC and an Action Agenda was held on 17 January 2014 in Abu Dhabi.

Addis Ababa: The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, through its Sub-Regional Office for Eastern Africa, will organise the 18th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) from 17 to 20 February 2014 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The ICE meeting will focus on the theme of "National Champions, Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Transformation...

En la presentación del informe, Carlos Lopes, Secretario General Adjunto de la ONU y Secretario de la Comisión económica para África, y Nikosazana Clarice Dlamini Zuma, Presidenta de la Comisión de la Unión Africana, señalan que África se encuentra en un momento crucial de su desarrollo. Se han producido cambios profundos en la correlación de fuerzas mundiales con la emergencia de nuevas...

Kigali, 08 January 2014 -The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), through its Sub-Regional Office for Eastern Africa (SRO-EA), will organise the 18th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) from 17 to 20 February 2014 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea — At the 25th Ordinary Session of the African Union Executive Council Monday, Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa urged member states to seriously rethink policies on agriculture, whose share of GDP, he warned, has been on the decline.

Malabo, Guinée équatoriale, le 27 juin 2014 (CEA) - Le Secrétaire exécutif de la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l'Afrique (CEA), M. Carlos Lopes, et le Directeur général de l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), M. Graziano da Silva, ont signé un protocole d'accord qui fournit un cadre de collaboration entre les deux...

Début décembre 2013, au moment où le Nigeria découvrait que l’équivalent de 76% des recettes de pétrole de la compagnie nationale, la NNPC (Nigeria National Petroleum Company), avait été détourné entre janvier 2012 et juillet 2013, l’ancien président su d-africain, Thabo Mbeki, présentait une esquisse de son rapport sur les transferts illicites qui quittent le continent. Il s’agit, indique le...

Zambia and Tanzania: The train starts with a clattering lurch. In the kitchen of the dining car, a pool of grease slops up against the side of a blackened pan. Beer bottles clink in the bar car and a semi-inebriated hoot of triumph rings out from one of the first-class sleepers.

THE figures are staggering: between $1.2 trillion and $1.4 trillion has left Africa in illicit financial flows between 1980 and 2009 - roughly equal to Africa's current gross domestic product, and surpassing by far the money it received from outside over the same period. Illicit financial flows are money earned illegally and transferred for use elsewhere. The money is usually generated from...

Publicamos en Blog Académico el resumen realizado por Ramón Arozarena del "Informe Económico sobre África 2013 " que realizó la Comisión Económica para África de las Naciones Unidas

African regional integration has the potential to pool resources, enlarge markets and stimulate national production, trade and investment. It also offers substantial potential for competition.

IN every century there are a few names and events that mark history. When I attended the first public speech by Nelson Mandela after he was released from prison I could not have imagined that this man was going to be the absolute rallying personality of the century. The reason why, in that square in front of Cape Town City Council, I could not have thought so, was not because I doubted one inch...

The figures are staggering: between $1.2 trillion and $1.4 trillion has left Africa in illicit financial flows between 1980 and 2009—roughly equal to Africa’s current gross domestic product, and surpassing by far the money it received from outside over the same period. Illicit financial flows are money earned illegally and transferred for use elsewhere. The money is usually generated from...

Carlos Lopes, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), often talks about Toblerone, the famous chocolate bar manufactured in Switzerland by Kraft Foods, an $18 billion company. Cocoa for Toblerone bars is imported, probably from Africa, where 70 percent of the world’s cocoa is harvested.

The economic performance of Africa in the last few years has been remarkable. The continent has consistently defied the global trend. Five years after the global financial system came perilously close to collapse, the global economic outlook is still uncertain. In Europe, GDP is still below pre-crisis levels and unemployment is at a record high.

El ministro le ha trasladado el compromiso de España con África Subsahariana que se refleja en el despliegue diplomático en la región y en su consolidación como una de las regiones de intervención de Cooperación Española​