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Buoyed by external trade shocks, resulting in search for alternative source of funds for financing public expenditures, African countries have been called upon to exercise restraint in sourcing for loans. This is even as the government of Nigeria may have shelved any plan to increase taxes, especially the Value Added Tax (VAT), at least this year and until 2017.

The African Union (AU) Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Integration concludes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Tuesday with Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the chairperson of the African Union Commission, imploring African countries to improve young people’s skills in science and engineering.

L’Afrique compte des fils dignes, intelligents et serviables. Leur engagement pour le développement du continent ne se traduit pas seulement par des paroles.

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.

The United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) have warned of the risk of another financial crisis just as they called for transformative policies as panacea to the current economic headwinds in Africa.

« La croissance actuelle de l’Afrique ne crée pas suffisamment d’emplois et ne profite pas à une fraction de la population suffisamment large pour pouvoir réduire considérablement la pauvreté », a expliqué M. Lopes.

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.

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.

Global partnerships can work if they are aligned with Africa’s strategic objectives, supported by a unified continental voice, according to participants at the 17 session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa

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.

The African Union (AU) Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Integration concludes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Tuesday with Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the chairperson of the African Union Commission, imploring African countries to improve young people’s skills in science and engineering.

The African Ministers of Finance, Planning, Economic Development, and Integration concluded their ninth annual meeting on April 5, 2016 with a strong call for the domestication of Agenda 2063 and 2030 for Sustainable Development which they said offers a unique opportunity for Africa to achieve inclusive and transformative development with equity. The Ministers further recognized the role of...

“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.

Renowned economist Ha-Joon Chang has reiterated call for industrialisation as an imperative for Africa’s transformation at the African Development Week organised by the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

“Our future rests in our hands,” declared Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Mr. Haile Mariam Desalegn on Monday in his keynote speech at the opening of the Conference of the African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Integration, holding today 4 April 2016 at the Conference Center of the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

A ministerial conference marked the peak of the African Development Week, drawing high-level government officials from several African countries to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Substantial levels of corruption tied to foreign interests are flying too far under the radar in Africa, according to a United Nations report, which calls for new forms of measurement to capture the role played by international interests.