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Nouakchott, 4 July 2025 (ECA) - The ECA Office for North Africa is holding on 8-11 July 2025 in Nouakchott (Mauritania) a capacity building workshop for the benefit of Mauritanian youth and women-led ...
The Sevilla Commitment and Platform for Action advance concrete strategic steps to fulfil the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals and chart a path for a fairer shared future, reaffirming the ...
Freetown, Sierra Leone | 10–13 June 2025 Freetown, Sierra Leone, 12 June 2025 (ECA) - The Ministry of Trade and Industry of Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission ...
Freetown, Sierra Leone | 10–13 June 2025The Ministry of Trade and Industry of Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat and the United Nations ...
Addis Ababa, 4 June 2025 (ECA) – Zimbabwe is overhauling how it tracks gender equality, following national consensus on a unified monitoring and reporting framework to fix fragmented systems, outdated ...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 27 May 2025 – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) convened a Regional Dialogue on ...
Harare, Zimbabwe, 27 May 2025 (ECA) – Hundreds of millions of people in Africa lack legal documentation, leaving migrants particularly vulnerable. Without proof of identity, they face exclusion from ...
Cape Town, 20 May 2025 - African policymakers are stepping up calls for greater transparency and fairness in how global credit rating agencies assess sovereign risk, warning that opaque and ...
Belgrade, Serbia, 14–16 May 2025 - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) participated at the 9 th International Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Forum, organized by the United ...
Lomé, Togo, 12 May 2025 – Over 500 delegates, including Heads of State, Ministers of Finance, Central Bank Governors, development partners, and civil society organizations gathered in Lomé for the ...
New York, 29 April 2025 - “With the Fourth Financing for Development Conference (FfD4) in Seville, Spain, just two months away, Africa has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rewrite the rules of ...