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The 2025 edition of the Forum will focus on the development of regional value chains (RVCs) and special economic zones (SEZs) in the livestock, agriparks and pharmaceutical sectors across Africa.

It will spotlight initiatives by governments, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), financial institutions, and the private sector to promote value addition, deepen backward and forward linkages, foster sustainable industrialization, leverage advances in modern technology, create jobs, and increase food security on the continent. In addition, the 2025 Africa Business Forum will raise awareness about investment opportunities on the continent with the view to mobilizing investments for the development of regional value chains and special economic zones in the livestock, agriparks and pharmaceutical sectors across Africa.

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The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has said Africa should focus more on the movement of people within the region for the success of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA). Ms. Thokozile Ruzvidzo, Director, Gender, Poverty and Social Policy Division, UNECA said this on Tuesday during the media conference on the Africa Regional Review of the Implementation…

World Bank, AU to Deploy Vaccines for 400m Africans

  The World Bank (WB) and the African Union (AU)’s COVID-19 Africa Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) have announced a decision to work together to deploy vaccines for 400 million Africans. The pledge came after the president of the World Bank, David Malpass, met with the AVATT to discuss ways to accelerate vaccine deployment to Africa, according to a joint statement by the UN Economic…

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Africa Needs To Increase Internet Penetration As COVID-19 Disrupts Trade Condition, Says UNECA:

According to figures from the ECA, Namibia, Kenya, Mauritius, and South Africa are the only countries where the share of online shoppers exceeds 8%, while the trend is below 5% in “most other countries” in Africa.

“The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we do business, and this should be an accelerator for digital transformation. Sectors like education, health, trade, food delivery, events and conferencing experienced unprecedented demand for technology,” an ECA statement quoted Mama Keita, director of ECA’s Eastern Africa region, as saying on Tuesday.

The ECA director made the statement during a virtual dialogue on how women digital entrepreneurs are contributing to Africa’s digital transformation on the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recent figures from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) showed that only 28 percent of Africans used the internet in 2019, while online shoppers are relatively still few in the continent.

United Nations Economic Commission Calls On Africa For Better Development

By Winifred Bulus

The Deputy Executive Secretary United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Giovanie Biha, has called on African governments to make deliberate efforts to create links between urban and industrial development in the context of their national development plans.

The call was made at the Economic Commission for Africa’s flagship, “The Economic Report on Africa 2017”, which was…