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African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development rose from an annual joint AU-ECA conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia adopting 17 resolutions to support Africa’s efforts towards implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) says Africa continues to be highly exposed to volatility and trade shocks as a result of its dependency on imports and resilience on commodity and natural export resources with a small number of buyers in the international market.

En 2016, la croissance économique de l’Afrique devrait atteindre 4,3 % selon l’ONU. Qui en récolte les fruits ?

“Our future rests in our hands,” declared Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, HE Haile Mariam Desalegn on Monday in his keynote speech at the opening of the Conference of Ministers at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa.

NKOSAZANA Dlamini-Zuma leaves little doubt that she could do with some of the “Panama Papers” billions. The African Union is currently scratching its head over how to fund its 50-year growth blueprint, and with external sources of fund on which the organisation has become over-dependent increasingly erratic, the focus is shifting inwards.

Addis Ababa, April 2016 – At the African Development Week held in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the issues for discussion included action plans to achieve regional integration, industrialization, migration and financing for development, the green economy, the problem of measuring corruption in Africa, and restoration of the African Peer Review Mechanism.

Transformation will not happen spontaneously, but rather as a result of deliberate and coherent policies that are entrenched into a harmonised development strategy and enlightened by transformational leadership”.

“Our future rests in our hands,” declared Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, HE Haile Mariam Desalegn on Monday in his keynote speech at the opening of the Conference of Ministers at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa.

Under the chairmanship of Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, around 60 senior leaders from Africa, Europe and the US gather in the Ethiopian capital, at the seat of the African Union (AU), to exchange ideas in an informal setting. The MSC Core Group Meeting takes place on the occasion of the 5th Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa and is organized in partnership with the governments of...

During a side-event roundtable dialogue of African Central Bank Governors on Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy, Debt Sustainability Amidst Global and Economic Slowdown, on the 3rd of April, 2016 at the ongoing African Development week in Addis, Ababa-Ethiopia, it was established that 2016 has been a challenging year for Africa and even promises to be one of the worst years economically since the...

Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has recently advised African nations to increase the participation of youth and women in the drive towards achieving Agenda 2063.

The 17th Session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa (RCM-Africa) kicked off in Addis Ababa, amidst calls for better coordination in the implementation of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the global Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030). The meeting is been held during the ongoing African Development Week.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 6, 2016/APO (African Press Organization)/ --H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), H.E. Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and H.E Mr. Georges Wembi Lwambo , Minister of Planning of the Democratic Republic of Congo, had a press conference immediately after the closing of the joint...

H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), H.E. Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and H.E Mr. Georges Wembi Lwambo , Minister of Planning of the Democratic Republic of Congo, had a press conference immediately after the closing of the joint AU-UNECA Ministerial Conference on Finance, Planning, Economic...

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has charged African countries to improve the skills of the youth in their respective countries in science and engineering.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 6 April 2016, -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Transformation will not happen spontaneously, but rather as a result of deliberate and coherent policies that are entrenched into a harmonised development strategy and enlightened by transformational leadership”.

Zimbabwe has to adopt smart ways in achieving economic nationalism instead of doing it crudely, as that will have serious implications on the economy, UN under secretary-general and Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) executive secretary Carlos Lopes has said.

Reeling from external trade shocks, resulting in search for alternative source of funds for financing public expenditures, experts have advised African countries to exercise restraint in sourcing for foreign loans.

Reeling from external trade shocks, resulting in search for alternative source of funds for financing public expenditures, experts have advised African countries to exercise restraint in sourcing for foreign loans.