Yaounde, 4 December 2020 (ECA) – How can Central African countries reconfigure existing transport highways which interconnect them, while building and linking new ones in a way that engines and supports structurally transformative economic activities along and near these routes?
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President Bollinger,Dear friends,I thank Columbia University for hosting this gathering — and I welcome those joining online around the world.We meet in this unusual way as we enter the last month of this most unusual year.We are facing a devastating pandemic, new heights of global heating, new lows of ecological degradation and new setbacks in our work towards global goals for more equitable, inclusive and sustainable development.To put it simply, the state of the planet is broken.Dear friends,Humanity is waging war on nature.
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The ECA on Thursday joined the rest of the world in marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) with a webinar focusing on the theme of the day; Building Back Better: toward a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post COVID-19 World.Speakers noted that the ‘new normal’ was presenting a lot more challenges for people living with disabilities and applauded the Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, and her team for going beyond the call of duty to make positive changes at the ECA to the lives of people living with disabilities.
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Addis Ababa, 2 December 2020 (ECA) - Approximately 2000 African Girls are participating in a continental coding bootcamp aimed at promoting the importance of ICTs as a tool for the empowerment of women.
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Addis Ababa, 1 December, 2020, ECA – Cameroon has joined the list of countries to formally ratify the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, one month to the commencement of trading, the African Union  Commission’s (AUC) Trade Commissioner Albert Muchanga announced today.“The Republic of Cameroon became the 33rd AfCFTA State Party following deposit of its instrument of ratification this 1st December, 2020,” Ambassador Muchanga said on his Twitter handle.
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