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ALTHOUGH Africa has witnessed improved economic growth in recent years — averaging 5.5 percent per annum — poverty and unemployment remain serious challenges, largely owing to the slow pace of industrialisation.

Africa still holds huge potential for growth and investment, but in order for this to happen basic needs and services must be attended to first. Much of the potential for business investment lies in finding ways to improve the lives of people in Africa, be this through supplying power, better access to quality FMCGs or through empowered healthcare.

Sébadé Toba, l’ambassadeur du Togo en Ethiopie, vient de présenter ses lettres de créances à Carlos Lopes, le secrétaire exécutif de la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique (CEA).

KIGALI Rwanda (Xinhua) -- African migrants are the second largest donors to Africa after development partners, a Senior United Nations official has said.

An Ibrahim Leadership Fellowship is a unique opportunity allowing mid-career young Africans to be mentored in the highest office of an intergovernmental organisation. The objective of this fellowship is to foster transformational leadership through ‘followship’ in young Africans. The concept is to learn by following, to use observation and exposure to high leadership as an effective way to...

The 27th African Union (AU) summit ended Monday in Kigali, Rwanda, with a commitment for the first time in the continental body’s history to come up with new strategies to reduce dependence on donors.

Carlos Lopes, secretário executivo da Comissão económica das Nações Unidas para África, comentou à margem da recente cimeira da União Africana, os grandes dossiers do momento, incluindo o impacto para o continente negro do Brexit, a anunciada saída do Reino Unido da União Europeia.

O Secretário Executivo da Comissão Econômica das Nações Unidas para África (UNECA), Carlos Lopes, comentou à margem da recente Cúpula da União Africana (UA), que decorreu em Kigali, capital da Ruanda, o impacto da saída do Reino Unido da União Europeia (Brexit) para o continente africano e os principais resultados da 27ª Cúpula da UA.

Nairobi, Kenya, 20 July 2016 (ECA) - Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), yesterday participated in a panel discussion on building economic resilience for the most vulnerable at the 14th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development where he stressed that thinking on sustainable development needs to move away from a thinking of inclusion and...

Africa still holds huge potential for growth and investment, but in order for this to happen basic needs and services must be attended to first. Much of the potential for business investment lies in finding ways to improve the lives of people in Africa, be this through supplying power, better access to quality FMCGs or through empowered healthcare.

The ocean once offered a comfortable life for the fishing community of Joal, in the Senegalese capital Dakar. "Ten years ago a fisherman could support a big family," says Ahmed Diame, a Greenpeace ocean campaigner based in the region. "Now they cannot eat."

Nairobi, Kenya, le 20 juillet 2016 (CEA) – Carlos Lopes, Secrétaire exécutif de la Commission économique pour l’Afrique (CEA), a participé hier, à une table ronde qui parle de la capacité d’adaptation des économies les plus vulnérables lors de la 14ème Conférence des Nations Unies sur le commerce et le développement.

Lors de la 27ème Session ordinaire du Conseil exécutif de l’Union africaune à Kigali, Carlos Lopes, le Secrétaire exécutif de la Commission économique pour l’Afrique, (CEA) a essayé de tordre le cou à l’idée selon laquelle la plupart des migrants qui rejoignent l’Europe par les eaux troubles de la Méditerranée sont des Africains.

Cette année, les garde-côtes italiens ont déjà secouru plus de 30 000 personnes en Méditerranée, faisant preuve de courage, de compassion et d’efficacité. Ils méritent la reconnaissance de l’Afrique car un grand nombre des survivants viennent du continent.

CEOs of the largest African and international companies, political decision makers from more than 40 African countries and the most active bankers and investors on the continent will gather on the 20 and 21 March 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland, for the 5th edition of THE AFRICA CEO FORUM.

The African Union has called on African countries to increase their contributions to the union in order to reduce reliance on external funding.

Selon le Bissau-Guinéen, le continent devrait résister à la baisse des cours. Notamment en définissant de nouvelles stratégies à court et moyen terme.

Les plus hautes autorités de l'UA, de la CEA et de la BAD, respectivement, Dr Nkosazana Ndlamini-Zuma, Dr Carlos Lopes, et Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina, ont réaffirmé leur détermination à continuer à travailler ensemble pour le développement de l'Afrique, en renforçant entre autres dispositions, leur Bureau d'Appui au Secrétariat Conjoint (JSSO).

(CNN) The ocean once offered a comfortable life for the fishing community of Joal, in the Senegalese capital Dakar. “Ten years ago a fisherman could support a big family,” says Ahmed Diame, a Greenpeace ocean campaigner based in the region. “Now they cannot eat.”