30 Years Post-Beijing: slow but steady strides in East and southern Africa, more policies and implementation needed to expedite gender equality.
Stories & Blogs ECASep 23, 2025(Story )30 years since the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), East and southern Africa has made commendable progress in gender equality demonstrated by improved education, health, and women’s public and private sector leadership.
Global Development Initiative ‘Important Mechanism’ to Drive Progress on 2030 Agenda, Secretary-General Tells High-Level Meeting.
Stories & Blogs UNSep 23, 2025(Press Release )“The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — our shared blueprint for a better future — face serious headwinds,” said António Guterres.
ECA Develops an Automotive Policy Framework to support Namibia and Lesotho’s Integration into the Automotive Regional Value Chain.
Stories & Blogs ECASep 05, 2025(Story )The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Sub Regional Office for Southern Africa (ECA SRO SA) organised a virtual workshop on 2nd September 2025 to review and validate the draft automotive policy framework for Namibia and Lesotho leveraging feed
Over 500 days of siege: Women and girls trapped in El Fasher face the risk of starvation and death.
Stories & Blogs UN-WomenSep 02, 2025(Statement )For more than 500 days, women and girls in El Fasher, North Darfur, have borne the brunt of a relentless siege.
Experts validate report on cross-border cocoa and rice value chains between Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
Stories & Blogs ECAAug 14, 2025(Story )In a pivotal move to strengthen regional trade and agricultural development, stakeholders from Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana gathered to review a draft assessment report on cross-border cocoa and rice value chains.
UN warns of steep rise in sexual violence during conflict.
Stories & Blogs UNAug 14, 2025(Story )Sexual violence in conflict zones rose sharply in 2024, increasing by a quarter compared to the previous year, the UN reported on Thursday. More than 4,600 survivors endured abuses used as weapons of war, torture, terrorism and political repression.
Escalating Terrorism in West Africa, Sahel Hits Women Hardest, Speakers Tell Security Council.
Stories & Blogs UNAug 07, 2025(Press Release )The security situation across the Sahel is deteriorating rapidly, threatening peace and security in West Africa’s coastal States and beyond, delegates warned the Security Council today, condemning the deliberate targeting and exploitation of women and gir
Speech: Let us stand with the women of the Sahel in recognition of their power to shape a better future
Stories & Blogs UN-WomenAug 07, 2025(Speech )Remarks by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the United Nations Security Council Briefing on the Sahel at UN Headquarters, 7 August 2025.
ECA calls for bold action to unlock the potential of Africa’s Landlocked Developing Countries at LLDC3.
Stories & Blogs ECAAug 06, 2025(Story )“The data tells a troubling story,” Said Mr. Gatete. “Structural challenges, like being landlocked, should not determine a nation’s economic fate. We must act—and act together.”
ECA leads development of SADC just energy transition framework in Windhoek
Stories & Blogs ECAAug 06, 2025(Story )The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in partnership with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat, has convened a consultative meeting of experts from 5 to 7 August 2025 in Windhoek, Namibia, to advance the development of a regio