By Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria Introduction When I concluded plans to visit London this week, it was for the ...

At the end of the Rwandan political upheaval just over a decade ago, more than one million people had been massacred. It was ...

A strong infrastructure base is critical for Africa’s economic transformation, Economic Commission for Africa’s Sylvain Boko said Thursday. Speaking during an ECA-sponsored session ...

Most of our Africa’s data are still presented as purely scientific documents making accessibility and usability by the larger stakeholders difficult thus denying ...

Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) negotiations are moving in the right direction and at the desired pace, with the first phase of the ...

By Jelani Aliyu, MFR. We must never underestimate the amazing power of human imagination, the ability to envision a dramatically positive and dynamic ...

Case study by the United Nations-based Better Than Cash Alliance shows how One Acre Fund OAF, an agricultural nonprofit organization in partnership with ...

  PwC’s Africa Business Agenda report shows that 85% of African CEOs (Global: 85%) are confident in their own company’s prospects for revenue ...

The United Nations and the African Union recently signed a new landmark framework to strengthen the partnership between the two organizations on peace and ...

  United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, has appointed Vera Songwe as ECA’s Executive Secretary. The Cameroonian economist and banking executive is the ...

Overall, there was a 17% increase in the number of Fortune 500 companies in MEA in 2016 compared to 2015, with Johannesburg being ...

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