Douala, 11 February 2014 (ECA) - Upon arrival in Cameroon on his first working visit to Central Africa, today, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) – Carlos Lopes, told the press that Central Africa is a sub-region with enormous potential for to help the continent achieve is Agenda 63 project.
Yaounde, 12 February 2014 (ECA) - Sustained growth is important but the transformation the structure of economies in Central Africa is indispensable for countries of the sub-region to effectively tackle poverty, remarked ECA’s Executive Secretary, Mr Carlos Lopes on his first call on Cameroon’s government officials in the context of his firs his first working visit to Central Africa.
Yaounde, 12 February 2014 (ECA) – Cameroon can completely overturn its economic fortunes if it could get out of the grip of fish and energy oil importation, UN Under-Secretary General and ECA Executive Secretary Carlos Lopes has told the country’s Prime Minister – Philemon Yang.
Yaounde, 15 February 2014 (ECA) - “Africa’s story told to the rest of the world is one of risks and conflict but a lot of people don’t know that while conflicts have accounted for 100 million deaths in Africa, they have accounted for 200 million deaths in Asia,” Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, told journalists in Cameroon as he ended his first working visit to that Gulf of Guinea country this week.
Yaounde, 17 Feb 2014 (ECA) - At the invitation of the Government of the Republic of Chad, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will organise the 30th session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of Central Africa from 5 to 7 March 2014 in N'Djamena, the Chadian capital.
N'Djamena, Chad, 3 March 2014 (ECA) - Central Africa is a mineral-rich sub-region, but the contribution of extractive industries to the development of other economic sectors is limited. This is one major finding at a meeting of experts in N'Djamena – Chad, to scrutinise a document drafted by ECA to serve as a reference framework for national extractive industry policies in the sub-region.
N’Djamena, Chad, 05 March 2014 (ECA) – “The green economy provides real prospects for industrial development for Central Africa considering the rapid structural change it may enjoy from the transformation of its huge potential of natural resources into finished products for local consumption and export." The Minister of Economy, Planning and International Cooperation of the Republic of Chad, Ms. Mariam Mahamat Nour made th
N'Djamena, Chad, 7 March 2014 (ECA) – After three days of brainstorming on the opportunities and challenges of the green economy for industrialisation in Central Africa, about sixty experts from eight countries in the sub-region and several international organisations have appealed to member States and the private sector to establish useful partnerships likely to mount special technologies for profitable green industrialisation.
Yaounde, 13 March 2014 (ECA) – To better gauge the level of intra-regional trade in Central Africa, there is great need to harmonise CEMAC-ECCAS data collection and processing methods.