Africa: Weakening Dollar, Strong Exports Drive Eastern Africa’s Trade Resilience – Uneca

Africa: Weakening Dollar, Strong Exports Drive Eastern Africa’s Trade Resilience – Uneca

End last month, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Eastern Africa published a press release indicating that, among others, eastern African exports are demonstrating remarkable resilience amid global trade turbulence, defying expectations of decline following sweeping US tariffs and persistent geopolitical uncertainty. Data from UNECA, it says, reveals that several countries in…

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Africa: Weakening Dollar, Strong Exports Drive Eastern Africa’s Trade Resilience – Uneca

Africa: Structural Reforms Viable Solutions for Africa’s Growing Dev’t Needs – Uneca

ADDIS ABABA — Africa must implement structural reforms, expanding domestic resource mobilization, fostering regional value chains, and cutting raw commodity exports, as foreign aid is unsustainable for meeting growing development needs, UNECA emphasized. A high-level session, held in New York on July 21, 2025, on the margins of the 2025 UN High-level Political Forum on…

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