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<p>Foreign Direct Investment in Africa declined to $45 billion in 2022 from a record $80 billion in the previous year. The 4th Africa Finance Corporation Country and Stakeholder Symposium gathered thought leaders, decision makers and key stakeholders on how to prevent any further capital in Africa to exit.</p>


CSS 2024: 4th Africa Finance Corporation Country & Stakeholder Symposium

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<p>Join CNBC Africa for a high-level round-table discussions on how technology should develop in Africa for Africans and the importance in crafting a path to inclusive technological advancement.</p>


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UNECA: Technology for Development in Africa: Crafting a path to inclusive technological advancement

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<p>Join CNBC Africa for the high-level round-table discussions on global financial architecture reforms to address the intersection of debt, climate and development in Africa.</p>


UNECA-COM: High-level round-table discussion on global financial architecture

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<p>The 2024 edition of the Africa Business Forum invited the public and private sector to have an open dialogue about Africa’s efforts to accelerate the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and the agenda 2063, the Africa we want. This Focus On brings key voices to highlight what needs to be done to boost Africa’s transformation through education, technology, and innovation.</p>


Focus On ABF: Boosting Africa’s Transformation through Education, Science, Technology & Innovation

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<p>The Africa Business Forum 2024, a pivotal event which recently took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Spearheaded by Claver Gatete, the UN Deputy Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, this gathering marks a significant milestone in shaping the continent&#8217;s future. Under the overarching theme of &#8220;Boosting Africa’s Transformation through Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation,&#8221; leaders, innovators, and visionaries converge to explore pathways for sustainable growth and development.</p>


ABF 2024: Boosting Africa’s Transformation through Education, Science, Technology & Innovation

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<p>Africa Business Forum will be held under the theme, Boosting Africa’s transformation through education, science, technology, and innovation. The goal of the Africa Business Forum is to promote an on-going dialogue between the private and the public sectors in Africa to accelerate collective efforts towards realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, of the African Union. This segment will interrogate what it will take to realise the &#8220;Africa We Want&#8221; and reimagine Africa&#8217;s Tech and STEM future.</p>


Africa Business Forum 2024: Reimagining Africa’s Tech & STEM Future

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<p>The African Economic Summit 2023 brought together leaders from across disciplines to discuss the Imperatives for Sustainable Industrial Development in Africa. These are the closing remarks at the end of three days of in-depth deliberation.</p>


African Economic Conference 2023: Closing Session

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<p>When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, majority of African countries were quick to respond to mitigate the impact. However, these responses have come at the expense of recovery. Now countries in Africa face fiscal vulnerabilities. What will it take to recover? CNBC Africa filed this report.</p>


COVID-19: How Africa can chart the path to recovery

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<p>Yesterday, the IMF issued a proposal to its board of governors to allocate $650 billion special drawing rights.</p>


IMF edges closer to allocation of special drawing rights

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<p>African finance ministers are meeting this week to discuss the state of industrialization and diversification. Historically, industrialization has been associated with job creation, poverty reduction and rapid growth in countries that are on development path. Africa has recently embarked on that path. Dr. Mama Keita from UNECA joins CNBC Africa to highlight what it will take to achieve it.</p>


UNECA’s Mama Keita on Africa’s road to industrialization

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<p>External trade in East Africa saw a sharp decline at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, exports defied the effects of the pandemic, surpassing 2019 levels by the third quarter of 2020. For more on trade performance in the region, CNBC Africa spoke to Andrew Mold, Chief of Regional Integration &#038; AfCFTA Cluster at UNECA.</p>


Hope for trade as East Africa exports rebound from lockdowns

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<p>The Eastern Africa region is set to generate an estimated $1.8 billion and more than 2 million jobs if the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is successfully implemented. But how is the region ready to stand out in the competitive market? UNECA Director for East Africa Mama Keita spoke to CNBC Africa for more.</p>


AfCFTA: Are East African economies ready to compete?

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<p>Jean-Paul Adam, Director of Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management Division at UNECA joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


UNECA on how to leverage the AfCFTA to ensure food security

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<p>The United Nations Commission for Africa has called on global leaders to take bold actions and act swiftly in other to minimise the impact of the pandemic crisis on Africa. While highlighting swift measures that can be undertaken within the next three to six months, UNECA stressed that Africa’s resilience to the crisis will break if global policy leaders remain timid or indifferent in their response. Dr Adama Coulibaly, Chief of the Sub-Regional Initiatives at UNECA Central Office and Victor Aluyi, Head of Portfolio Management at Commercio Partners join CNBC Africa for this discussion.</p>


COVID-19: Driving Africa’s recovery through diversification & industrialization

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<p>From next year trade under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement will commence and the agreement will create a 3.4 trillion-dollar economic bloc regional integration will play a critical role in its success and Joe Attah-Mensah, Principal Policy Adviser for the Macroeconomic and Governance Division at UNECA joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


UNECA on how the AfCFTA will strengthen regional integration

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<p>The completion of the first phase of the WalterSmith Refinery, comes at a right time especially because Nigeria just ratified the African Continental Free Trade Agreement. That’s according to Ngone Diop, Director of the Sub-Regional Office for West Africa at UNECA. She discussed this in a chat with CNBC Africa’s Chrsty Cole.</p>


UNECA on how Nigeria’s modular developments impacts regional trade

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<p>The operationalization of the African Continental Free Trade Area has been moved to December of this year by Africa’s heads of states due to COVID-19 pandemic.</p>


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Focus On ABF: Boosting Africa’s Transformation through Education, Science, Technology & Innovation

ABF 2024: Boosting Africa’s Transformation through Education, Science, Technology & Innovation

Africa Business Forum 2024: Reimagining Africa’s Tech & STEM Future

African Economic Conference 2023: Closing Session

COVID-19: How Africa can chart the path to recovery

IMF edges closer to allocation of special drawing rights

UNECA’s Mama Keita on Africa’s road to industrialization

Hope for trade as East Africa exports rebound from lockdowns

AfCFTA: Are East African economies ready to compete?

UNECA on how to leverage the AfCFTA to ensure food security

COVID-19: Driving Africa’s recovery through diversification & industrialization

UNECA on how the AfCFTA will strengthen regional integration

UNECA on how Nigeria’s modular developments impacts regional trade

How Africa’s free trade agreement could be the best stimulus after COVID-19

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CSS 2024: 4th Africa Finance Corporation Country & Stakeholder Symposium

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ABF 2024: Boosting Africa’s Transformation through Education, Science, Technology & Innovation

Africa Business Forum 2024: Reimagining Africa’s Tech & STEM Future

African Economic Conference 2023: Closing Session

COVID-19: How Africa can chart the path to recovery

IMF edges closer to allocation of special drawing rights

UNECA’s Mama Keita on Africa’s road to industrialization

Hope for trade as East Africa exports rebound from lockdowns

AfCFTA: Are East African economies ready to compete?

UNECA on how to leverage the AfCFTA to ensure food security

COVID-19: Driving Africa’s recovery through diversification & industrialization

UNECA on how the AfCFTA will strengthen regional integration

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