African Free Trade Area – Gabon is in the ‘mix!’
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Central Africa
African Free Trade Area – Gabon is in the ‘mix!’
Libreville, 28 February, 2020 (ECA) - Improving the competitiveness of businesses; raising awareness of all stakeholders; setting up an active national AfCFTA implementation committee; synergy between the public and private sectors; continued support from technical partners such as the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA); structural reforms leading to the removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers to increase productivity, promote the emergence of regional and continental chains and lead Africa in general and Gabon in particular to a 'future we want'!!!
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National Awareness and Sensitization Forum on the AfCFTA
This national forum aims to raise awareness among stakeholders about the implementation of the AfCFTA agreement, signed on March 21, 2018 and ratified on July 02, 2019 by Gabon. They will be provided with contextual information on the Agreement, the expected effects of its implementation and the strategic directions envisaged by the Government in rendering the continental market operational.
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Gabonese stakeholders mobilized for Africa’s free trade
Yaounde / Libreville February 21, 2020 (ECA) - Senior officials in charge of industrial production, services and trade issues, as well as representatives of the private sector, civil society, the academia and the media of Gabon have been convened to a National Awareness and Sensitization Forum on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), from February 26 to 27, 2020, at the King's Choice Appart Hotel in Libreville.
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ECCAS salutes ECA’s contribution to regional integration in Central Africa
Addis Ababa/Yaounde, 11 February 2020 (ECA) – The Secretary-General of the Economic Community of Central Africa States (ECCAS) – Mr Ahmad Allam-Mi has sounded a high note of satisfaction at the work of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in supporting regional integration in Central Africa since the founding of ECCAS in 1983.
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Awareness raising campaign on the need for electronic passports in the Central Africa
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Workshop to validate a diagnostic study on Chad’s Industrialization and Economic Diversification Masterplan (PDIDE) [to be confirmed]
The Ministry of Economy and Development Planning of Chad and the Sub-regional Office for Central Africa of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) are co-organizing a workshop for external validation of theIndustrialization and Economic Diversification Masterplan of Chad (PDIDE).
The ultimate goal of the workshop is to finalize the Plan with experts and other international contributors to enable the Chadian government operationalize it.
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Unique customs union in Central Africa underway
Yaounde, 15 January 2020 (ECA) – Work on the establishment of a harmonized customs union between CEMAC and ECCAS in order to consolidate subregional free trade in Central Africa and better harness the advantages of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), has reached an advance state.
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Tough road towards Africa’s Information Society despite progress
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Tough road towards Africa’s Information Society despite progress
Yaounde, 07 December 2019 (ECA) – Despite the progress made in fulfilling her promises for developing ICTs and an enabling ecosystem for an all-englobing digital economy, through a jump from basic voice/text services to broadband solutions and worthwhile achievements in financial inclusion, Africa still lags behind the rest of the world as per the rate of implementation of the 15 action lines of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the key global movement for interconnectedness towards development, which started in 2005.
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