Acting Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Antonio Pedro, reported that the continent’s economic growth is rebounding to 4.1 percent as inflation slows to 12 percent, but warned of the need to achieve double-digit progress and sustainable Development.
During the 55th Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, organized by the ECA and concluding on Tuesday in this capital, Pedro explained that this targeted number also allows for the organization of regulated companies and a climate of innovation become.
At the same time, he added, detailed attention will be needed to ensure there is a strong macroeconomic foundation to enable structural change that will bring about green jobs, pro-poor policies, the carbon tax mechanism and illicit financial flows.
On the other hand, the labor ministers of 11 countries in the East and the Horn of Africa signed a joint declaration in which they committed themselves to strengthening regional and national structures for labor mobility and migration management.
Aiming to hold the Fourth Regional Ministerial Forum on Migration in Addis Ababa last week, ministers from Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda agreed to come together as a bloc on migration issues to tackle in the region.
According to state-run TV channel Fana Broadcasting Corporate, the decision will create a more solid negotiating position in their engagement with migrants’ destination countries, particularly the Gulf States and the European Union.
Participants in the forum, which is coordinated by the International Organization for Migration, also agreed to strengthen high-level ministerial meetings and regional and national technical advisory committees and other structures working on, among other things, bilateral employment contracts and ethical recruitment.
Another issue occupying the media agenda was the announcement by the House of Representatives (Parliament) that it would remove the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPFL) from the terrorist list.
The TPFL has been on this list since May 2021, a group that opposed the federal army on November 4, 2020 and sparked the outbreak of a war in the north of the country, which later spread to various areas of the Afar and Amhara regions, where the damage also occurred were catastrophic.
After 10 days of dialogue in Pretoria, South Africa, on November 2, mediated by the former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, special envoy of the African Union, the government and the front, engaged in an armed confrontation since late 2020, announced the cessation of hostilities .
In addition to the ceasefire, the pact included the resumption of humanitarian assistance to the population of the jurisdiction, and healing and reconciliation as pillars to safeguard Ethiopia’s sovereignty and integrity.
Under the terms of the agreement, the national government officially appointed Getachew Reda as chief administrator of the interim administration of the Tigray region.
A communiqué from the Prime Minister’s Office indicated that the Council of Ministers, at a regular meeting on March 18, approved the law establishing this government structure under Article 62(9) of the country’s constitution.
Reda will have the responsibility to establish an inclusive administration and to lead and coordinate the executive body in a way that ensures the representation of all political actors operating in this locality.
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