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Participants at a high-level event held today (26 September) at the United Nations headquarters in New York, voiced strong support for the industrialization of Africa as a way forward to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.

Decision-makers and a wide range of stakeholders from Africa will gather to discuss critical issues around the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Decision-makers and a wide range of stakeholders from Africa will gather to discuss critical issues around the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

NEW YORK, United States of America -- Decision-makers and a wide range of stakeholders from Africa will gather to discuss critical issues around the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). African countries have made significant progress on the MDGs, increasing the numbers of women in parliaments, reducing maternal, infant, and HIV-related deaths, and placing more children in...

Decision-makers and a wide range of stakeholders from Africa will gather to discuss critical issues around the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Ce qui marque, c’est son flegme. Un physique râblé, une posture assez décontractée, avec un sourire légèrement énigmatique qui semble dire : « Je suis prêt. » Son pays, la Guinée-Bissau, minuscule Etat connu pour être l’une des plaques tournantes du trafic de cocaïne, longtemps secoué par des putschs à répétition et la guerre civile, a pourtant de quoi rendre nerveux.

L'Afrique a fait des progrès encourageants sur les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement (OMD) et devraient utiliser les objectifs de développement durable à l'horizon 2030 comme une occasion de parvenir à une percée de développement, selon un rapport conjoint conjointement publié aujourd’hui par la Commission économique pour l’Afrique ( CEA), l’Union africaine (UA), la Banque...

The UN Sustainable Development Summit continued on Saturday, 26 September 2015, as delegates continued with statements in a general plenary that ran through the day and into the evening.

Participants at a high-level event held today at the United Nations headquarters in New York, voiced strong support for the industrialization of Africa as a way forward to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.

Africa should not take for granted the historic opportunity it has to take on factories that are no longer economical to operate in China due to higher labor costs, says Carlos Lopes, executive secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

Carlos Lopes está na ONU a acompanhar a Cimeira sobre o Desenvolvimento Sustentável; representante afirma que africanos precisam ter suas prioridades nos próximos 15 anos.

With Western governments wary of committing more money to aid, African states are left looking for other sources of finance for their development

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Dr. Carlos Lopes will officially welcome the new President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Adesina Akinwumi, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, headquarters of both the AUC and the UNECA.

In the wake of the Syrian refugee crisis that is seeing thousands of families desperate to enter Europe, the issue of African migrants to Europe has also resurfaced. The United Nations Commission for Africa has been working on the issue and its executive Director, Carlos Lopes, posted an op-ed on the South African online news portal Daily Maverick on September 3rd, 2015, arguing that flows of...

Africa should not take for granted the historic opportunity it has to take on factories that are no longer economical to operate in China due to higher labor costs, says Carlos Lopes, executive secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

As the curtains close on the Millennium Development Goals, Mr. Carlos Lopes has stressed that the intense participation of Africa in defining the new sustainable development agenda paves the way for governments to make critical structural changes in response to socio-economic inequality. Speaking at the ECA ahead of the UN General Assembly this September, Mr. Lopes stated that the new Sustainable...

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Dr. Carlos Lopes will officially welcome the new President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Adesina Akinwumi, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, headquarters of both the AUC and the UNECA.

O chefe da Comissão Económica da ONU para África, ECA, disse que os africanos devem ter as suas prioridades até 2030. O processo é um caminho longo a percorrer que começa agora.

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Dr. Carlos Lopes will officially welcome the new President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Adesina Akinwumi, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, headquarters of both the AUC and the UNECA. Dr. Dlamini Zuma and Carlos Lopes told...