UNECA

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Name: UNECA

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

AU's PRC Holding 26th Ordinary Session

The 26th Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives Committee of the African Union went underway on Sunday at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa."Fifty years ago much of Africa was still under the yoke of colonialism and apartheid," said Ambassador ... [Published Individual.com - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Apartheid, Kongit Sinegiorgis, African Union

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund UNICEF

JOINT INVITATION - HIGH LEVEL PANEL ON CIVIL REGISTRATION AND VITAL STATISTICS

/ - The 50th ‘birthday' of the African Union is a chance to make a lasting commitment to the continent's children by giving every child a name and legal status and bringing lasting change and social benefits for over 1 billion people in Africa, UNICEF ... [Published Ein News - 18 hours ago]

Entities: United Nations International Children's Emergen..., African Union, Martin Mogwanja

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

African Development Bank

UNECA - UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFR: Climate Change High on Africas Post-2015 Development Agenda

(ECA) - Climate change has been identified as one of the key issues that the forthcoming global development agenda will actively seek to address. At the regional level, an African Common Position on Climate Change that was presented at the Joint Conference ... [Published 4 Traders - May 20 2013]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, UNECA, United Nations, African Development Bank, Abidjan

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

UNECA - UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFR: APRM takes stock of engagement with civil society

(ECA) - A decade after it was established, the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) engaged civil society representatives in a two colloquium on the theme: Reviewing a decade of peer learning and projecting a future of governance in Africa."It is a time ... [Published 4 Traders - May 20 2013]

Entities: UNECA, Organization of African Unity, Peer Review, United Nations

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Organization of African Unity

AUC : OAU/AU golden jubilee celebrations officially launched

Following the morning session of the PRC, the African Union Commission held a press briefing to local and foreign journalists. The press briefing was given by Dr. Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the AUC Erastus Mwencha, Deputy Chairperson of the AUC and ... [Published Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ethiopia - May 19 2013]

Entities: Organization of African Unity, Erastus Mwencha, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Africa: With a Booming Economy, Africa Looks to Re-Brand

The United Nations Economic Commission of Africa (UNECA) and African Union (AU) recently launched the "Economic Report on Africa 2013: Making the most of Africa's Commodities," written by Carlos Lopes, UN under-secretary-general and executive secretary ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 18 2013]

Entities: Carlos Lopes, Agriculture, UNECA, Commodities

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations

AU CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE OF WOMEN STAKEHOLDERS ON PAN AFRICANISM, RENAISSANCE AND AGENDA 2063 ENDS WITH A CALL FOR ACT

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 14, - /African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Women from African Union Member States, Civil Society, Women Pan-African movements, women's rights organisations, academics, Diaspora organisations, private sector, UN agencies and ... [Published NewsBlaze - May 14 2013]

Entities: Renaissance, African Union Commission, United Nations

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Africa eyes high-speed FDI growth

Africa teeming with opportunities, but short in cashPhoto Credit:Reuters/Noor KhamisAfrica needs to invest USD 93 billion each year to meet its infrastructure needs, but the continent suffers from a financing shortfall of USD 48 billion.Of these projects, ... [Published Zawya.com - May 12 2013]

Entities: Infrastructure, African Development Bank, World Economic Forum, Noor Khamis

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 2 reports

UNECA - UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFR: Branding Africa and debunking the myths about its potential

(ECA) - Africa cannot continue to be marketed as a country, when it is a continent of 54 countries, which, by 2040 will have the largest workforce in the world. The statement was made by the Economic Commission for Africa's Executive Secretary, Mr. Carlos ... [Published 4 Traders - May 11 2013]

Entities: UNECA, Carlos Lopes, United Nations, Corruption

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

African Development Revisited

loading...by Guest Blogger for John CampbellMay 7, 2013This is a guest post by Owen Cylke. Mr. Cylke is a development professional and a retired senior foreign service officer with USAID. A spate of$ press articles$ over the past several months speculate ... [Published Council On Foreign Relations - May 07 2013]

Entities: UNECA, United States Agency For International Development, John Campbell, Agriculture

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

COMAI, or African Integration's best-kept secret? » Emmanuel K. Bensah Jr.

The Accidental Ecowas & AU Citizen:By E.K.Bensah JrIf it is true that the AUC/AfDB/UNECA have been frontline intergovernmental actors facilitating regional integration, then one can also speculate that COMAI plays a secondary but important ancillary role ... [Published Modern Ghana - May 01 2013]

Entities: Economic Community of W. African States, UNECA, Mauritius, Cameroon, African Economic Community

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Sids at the heart of talks with the Uneca

Ambassador Joseph Nourrice, the resident ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and permanent representative to the African Union, has presented his credentials to Dr Carlos Lopes, the United Nations under-secretary-general and executive ... [Published Seychelles Nation - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: UNECA, Seychelles, Carlos Lopes, Piracy, James Michel

Quotes

...Kongit Sinegiorgis, Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the African Union and UNECA and Chairperson of the PRC, in her opening remarks. "Today, it is gratifying that our continent has been liberated from all forms of subjugation."

AU's PRC Holding 26th Ordinary Session [Published Individual.com - 10 hours ago]

"Adaptation is impeded by Africa's fragmentation into small countries and ethnic groups and by poor business environments" , they add OnOn the other hand, mitigation exercises, especially through the design of emissions-trading frameworks are few and far apart

UNECA - UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFR: Climate Change High on Africas Post-2015 Deve ... [Published 4 Traders - May 20 2013]

"APRM's 10th Anniversary celebrations coupled with the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Organisation of African Unity/African Union (OAU/AU) gives us the opportunity to look back with a view to interrogating and projecting a future for the mechanism in addressing governance issues of the day. This is with a view to better profiling the African Peer Review Mechanism, finding synergies and inter-linkages especially with other organs and structures of the AU" underscored the forum

UNECA - UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFR: APRM takes stock of engagement with civil soc ... [Published 4 Traders - May 20 2013]

"We are no longer a colonial post where people come and extract, this has been responsible for the state of Africa until now," says Lopes. "We can no longer have relationships based on colonial purposes. The responsibility is Africa first; we are talking about the last frontier of growth and development."

Africa: With a Booming Economy, Africa Looks to Re-Brand [Published AllAfrica.com - May 18 2013]

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Economic Report on Africa 2013 [Published Zunia.org RSS - Apr 02 2013] Making the Most of Africas Commodities: Industrializing for Growth, Jobs and Economic Transformation African countries have a real opportunity to capitalize on their resource endowments and high international commodity prices, as well as on opportunities ...
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