Brazzaville, 15 Dec. 2016 (ECA) – Central Africa’s transport interconnection problems are not a result of lack of expertise across countries but rather a manifestation of difficulties with inter-state coordination. And this considerably slows down efforts within the sub-region to achieve structural transformation – a process that cannot occur without fluidity in the movements of people and goods.
Brazzaville, 14 Dec. 2016 (ECA) – In spite of the efforts deployed by countries in Central Africa to incorporate the objectives of the African Mining Vision (AMV) into national policies and legislative frameworks, the results are still limited and do not yet permit the mining industry to drive inclusive growth and sustainable development. Such is the conclusion contained in an ECA report on “the state of progress and next steps in the implementation of the African Mining Vision in Central Africa”.
Libreville, Gabon, 14 Dec. 2016 (ECA) – The Secretariat General of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), through its Sub-Regional Office for Central Africa based in Yaoundé/Cameroon, have just laid the foundation of a new era of collaboration in several domains to speed up the integration process in Central Africa.
Brazzaville, 10 Dec. 2016 (ECA) – The Sub-Regional Office for Central Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has convened mining development experts of the sub-region to an Ad Hoc meeting scheduled for 13 – 14 December 2016 in Brazzaville, the Capital of Congo.
Libreville, 8 December 2016 (ECA) – Transformative industrial policies that are in harmony with environmental protection need not be “an exercise of cutting and pasting but should be rather well crafted and context specific,” vehemently argued the Director of the Sub Regional Office for Central Africa of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mr Antonio Pedro during a policy debate on structural transformation in Gabon this Thursday.
Libreville, 7 December 2016 (ECA) – A plethora of regional development bodies in Central Africa under the umbrella of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the Central Africa Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) have indicated their appetite for internalising and aggregating Africa’s Agenda 2063 and the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) to better respond to the needs of the sub-region.
Brazzaville, Dec 6, 2016 (ECA) – An exacting endeavour of the Central African Economic Community (ECCAS) member states - supported by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) – has yielded fruits with the adoption by countries of the sub-region of model laws on telecommunications, cyber security and the regulatory framework to govern cross-border interconnection.