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Tunis, July 31st, 2025 (ECA) - The ECA office for North Africa concluded in Tunisia a four-day capacity building workshop on Modernizing Libya’s Tax System focusing on E-Taxation Services. The ...
New York, 22 July 2025 (ECA) – Reviews of Sustainable Development Goal policies and progress have helped to bring young people, women, communities and marginalized groups into the sustainable ...
The Climate for Development in Africa (ClimDev-Africa) programme has served as a key continental platform for addressing climate change challenges since its establishment in 2011. Jointly implemented ...
The workshop aims to enhance the national gender monitoring and reporting framework in Burundi through technical and capacity-building sessions. It will provide participants with targeted training on ...
Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts (ICSOE) of North Africa ...
Lusaka, Zambia, 15 April 2024 – The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa (SRO-SA) and Afreximbank in collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and ...
London and Kinshasa, November 24, 2021 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer ...
17 out of the 20 countries most threatened by climate change are in Africa, but there are still solutions to this crisis ...
Achieving the SDGs could open $12 trillion in market opportunities and 380 million jobs by 2030. For Africa, the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) provides a unique opportunity to implement ...
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 1 March 2024 (ECA) –The African share of global trade remained at less than 3 per cent, driven largely by merchandise trade, an indicator that African countries continue to ...
Addis Ababa, 6 November 2024 - Women in Africa are closer to reaching equality with men today than they were four years ago – but the continent is only halfway toward achieving gender parity. That’s ...