Unlocking Africa's critical mineral wealth: Energy transition can pave path to new prosperity.
Stories & Blogs UNCTAD (News )Africa holds significant reserves of minerals critical for low-carbon technologies, like cobalt and manganese, offering opportunities for economic growth and development.
How Africa can harness critical mineral wealth to revamp economies
Stories & Blogs UNCTAD (News )The continent is the centre of attraction due to its huge deposits of the world’s reserves of minerals essential for renewable energy technologies like solar panels and electric vehicles: 55% of cobalt, 47.65% of manganese and 5.9% of copper, among others
AFCFTA-Anchored Pharmaceutical Initiative Ministerial Meeting on the endorsement of the Centralized Pooled Procurement Framework and signature of its Legal Instrument
Stories & Blogs ECA (Event )The implementation of the Pharma Initiative is anchored on the Africa Medicines Agency (AMA) and AfCFTA, geared towards fostering inclusive and sustainable socioeconomic development through a single market of approximately 1.4 billion people.